Senate Agenda, March 3, 2000 - EXHIBIT III, Appendix 2

Bachelor of Arts Program in Family Studies at Brescia College

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The interdisciplinary BA in Family Studies will include a combination of new and existing courses. Students in the 3-year BA program will include 5 upper year courses in their program including the required FS 200 core course; students in the 4-year BA program will include 7.5 upper year courses in their program including the required FS 200 required core course.

In addition to core courses, students will choose courses from a list of approved options offered by various departments and programs. Students in the fourth year of the 4-year general program may apply to take Family Studies 401a/b (Family Studies Practicum) but will be expected to have met experience and volunteer guidelines. Family Studies 402a/b will be mounted in cooperation with the Human Ecology department.

A new first-year core course will be required of all students in the program. Family Studies 020, Introduction to Family Studies, will be team-taught by several members of Brescia faculty drawn from Social Science departments and from Human Ecology. In the introductory course students will encounter the great variability that exists in family structures and roles through time and space and the many different perspectives from which families are analyzed. Students will be challenged to examine their own definitions of "family" and their own experiences in a wider context.

A second required course, Family Studies 200, Current Issues in Family Studies, will focus closely on Canadian family issues and will include a section on research methodology.

List of Approved Courses for Family Studies BA:

• Family Studies 020 Introduction to Family Studies
• Family Studies 200 Current Issues in Family Studies
• Family Studies 401a/b Practicum in Family Studies
• Family Studies 402a/b Selected Topics in Family Studies
• Human Ecology 338a/b Issues in Housing (Currently CTD 338/b)
• Human Ecology 343a/b Consumer Economics and Resource Management
• Human Ecology 330a/b Clothing and Human Behavior (Currently CTD 330a/b)
• English 133E Children's Literature
• English 2xxF/G The Family in English literature
• Sociology 235 Sociology of the Family
• Sociology 144a/b Sociology of Education
• Sociology 102 Sociology of Ageing



• Sociology 267a/b Juvenile Delinquency
• Sociology 172a/b Advertising and Society
• Sociology 341F Gender Roles
• Sociology 380G Advanced Gender Relations
• Psychology 141 The Exceptional Child
• Psychology 150 Human Adjustment
• Psychology 240a/b Introduction to Developmental Psychology
• Psychology 164 Psychology of People, Work and Organizations
• Psychology 153 Human Sexuality
• History 255E Women in History
• History 182a/b Women in the Work Force 1700-1990
• Religious Studies 222F/ G Feminist Spirituality Today
• Religious Studies 251F/G Women in the Christian Tradition from the First to the Twelfth Century
• Religious Studies 252F/G Women in the Christian Tradition from the Twelfth Century to the Present
• Religious Studies 140 Theology of Marriage
• Philosophy 155E Philosophical Issues in Feminism
• Anthropology 2xxF/G Anthropology of the Family
• Social Work 020 Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work
• Social Work 282 Family Change and Family Social Policy
• Social Work 030 Contemporary Social Welfare Problems
• Social Work 280E Multiculturalism in Canada
• Education 100 Perspectives on Schooling

Women's Studies Special Topics courses, as appropriate