TOURO COLLEGE
New York School of Career and Applied Studies
Syllabus
Department: Sociology
Course Title: Marriage and the Family
Course Number: GSO 318.6
Prerequisites: GSO 121
Credit Hours: 1
Developer: Abbott Katz/Joel Reisberg
Date of Last Update: December, 2003
Course Description:
See principal listing.
Course/Developmental Objectives:
 See principal listing.
Course/Institutional Objectives:
Viewing the family institution through a social-scientific lens should enable students to
better appreciate the dynamics of their own family life and the culturally polyglot family
lives of others, a useful set of understandings for residents of New York.
Course Content:
 See principal listing
Hardware/Software/Materials Requirements: No additional requirements; video
materials available upon request.
Course Requirements
 Term paper
Grading Guidelines
 Final
40%
Methodology
 Term paper
 Recommendation to students to search media for relevant articles, including the
internet
Course Text
Eshleman, J. Ross, The Family, Allyn and Bacon, 2003
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