Sociology

1. Knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should master the analytic tools necessary to understand the principal characteristics of modern family unit during a period of important cultural, social and economic changes. Changes have been influent in various ways on the experience that people have of family life. In this context, particular attention is focused on possible consequences over the identity process 2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to understand: models of family in different age and societies; Processes involving family, mainly in terms of decreasing of the number of members and the changing of family relationships (crisis, functions and development) from modernity to nowadays; The role of family in keeping social cohesion in western societies; The evolution of the family models in a post-modern era. 3. Critical faculties should be developed through the involvement of students in the elaboration of family issues through the debate, also stimulated by watching movies and writing reports on texts that are recommended during the course 4. Communications skills. The ability to communicate what was learned should be developed through the writing of the reports and debate in the class. 5. Learning skills. The ability to continue studying the topics should be developed through the ability to interpret the evolutions of the family in a reflexive and critic way and to use sociological concepts and categories to describe the reality family. Knowing extend its analysis beyond the immediate data, recognizing the variables (social, economic, cultural) accidents in the situation