MFHD
625
Outreach in Family Life Ed
Hours
3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab
Principles and practices for the development, implementation, and evaluation of family life education programs for audiences and settings outside the traditional classroom: community workshop teaching, print media, internet technology, radio, and television.
Theory
- Develop and articulate a personal philosophy of family life education.
- Learn a framework for the development of family life education programs.
Research
- Critically evaluate the quality of several examples of family life ecuation programs.
Practice
- Learn principles and practices for teaching about family life in a variety of traditional and contemporary venues, including workshop teaching, writing for print media and other lay publication outlets, internet technology, radio, television, and other self-directed approaches.
- Practice workship teaching and receive peer, clientele, and instructor feedback.
- Learn a variety of approaches to evaluating family life education programs.
- Learn principles and practices for reaching diverse audiences.
- Learn principles and strategies for multiplying their reach through collaborative partnerships and social marketing.
- Design and formatively implement one's own family life education program using scholarly literature and best practices.