The student will develop the communication, reasoning, and coping skills necessary to resolve recurrent issues within families. Students will gain an understanding of crisis within families and the best courses of action to deal with crisis situations in a healthy and productive manner as well as develop empathy for both the individual and family unit. Students will learn about different family structures and functions and investigate the changes in the family over the past 300 years. This class will involve research into a student’s own family history to understand how economic, political and cultural changes affect families. This course will meet the Social Studies elective.