Description
Task Explanation: This 1-2 page reflection gives you the opportunity to wrap up your thoughts about what you have learned
about relationships, family, and marriage this summer session. You will write about what you found most valuable in the course. You have the opportunity to look at your lived experience and consider the effects of socioeconomic status, gender identity, race/ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and other areas of identity play a role in relationships, marriage, and family. How will learning of these important facts impact your career goals, major, and personal life?
Assignment: This assignment is expected to be a 1-2-page double-spaced Times New Roman font and essay-style informal
reflection. Consider the following question. You may feel free to answer any or all these questions within
your writing:
1) What was the most important thing you learned throughout this course?
2) How have social class, gender identity, race/ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality among other things traditionally impacted relationships, marriage, and/or family life?
3) How will a deeper understanding of how relationships and families are shaped impact the work you intend to do?
4)How can we impart social change to bring more equity into families and relationships?
5) What do you find to be an important policy change needed in the United States to
lessen/eradicate inequalities connected to relationships, marriage, and families?
6) Is there something you wish we had focused on more/done more in this course?
7) Which assignment did you find most informative/useful?
8) Any additional thoughts you may have?
