At 10:49 AM 11/17/03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The course is on urban families and requires the students to stay with actual families for 10 days.When you say "urban families" do you mean, um, "families of color" or will ordinary whitebread University City families do? Also, do you really need "actual" families or will simulated or virtual families suffice?
I had the same questions after reading this post and have been in conversation with the professor. I was interested because I am an alum of Messiah.
Her responses follow, and you can contact her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to host a student(s) in January.
rjw.
>This cross-cultural is designed not to focus on one specific cultural
>tradition (i.e., African-American, Hispanic, Asian) but to focus on the
>multicultural dimension of urban environments. Thus, I want to expose my
>students to all cultural backgrounds as well as all aspects of urban living
>(i.e., work, transportation, entertainment, schools).
>
>I am looking for families that live in an urban environment (not a suburban
>one). So I would be looking for families that lived in the city of
>Philadelphia, for example.
>
>In family studies we define the family either structurally or functionally.
>I am not looking for "traditional" families, necessarily. Single parent
>families, stepfamilies, multigenerational families, etc., would all be
>appropriate in addition to two parent families.
>
>It would be helpful for families to live near public transportation as the
>students would need to travel back and forth from the host families to the
>Temple campus for classes during the day.
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