| Course Name: | Family Living |
| Entity: | Fullerton High School |
| Description: | This class is designed to help the students better understand themselves and to relate more effectively with others in interpersonal relationships. It includes personal evaluations of values, goals, and standards. Students examine behavior according to basic human needs, theories of development, and cultural pressures. Students also examine relationships of family members, family roles, and personal and family crises. Communication skills problem-solving mechanisms, and stress are also studied. Preparation for dating and marriage is studied, including male and female expectations and stereotypes, types of love, premarital sex and its options, family planning and contraceptives, and adjustments in early marriage. Other topics of study are use of drugs, including alcohol, venereal diseases, decision-making, mate selection, crises, stress, old age and death.
The class MUST be supervised and students must have access to computers, as they will be used extensively. Canvas and Google accounts are preferred.
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| Subjects: | Family & Consumer Science |
| Grade Levels: | 10 - 12 |
| Prerequisites: | Course proctor, access to computers |
| Comments: | Please contact Principal Josh Rathje with any questions regarding this course. Email: jrathje@fullerton.esu7.org |