HBD4895
Power of Love in Relationships
The course examines love and relationships from both a personal and societal perspective. Students are to assess how levels of love operate in their own lives through personal self-assessment, by utilizing text recommendations to personal needs or goals, and by sharing selected issues and ideas in a group setting. During the course, students are expected to understand and be able to practically apply effective and appropriate loving principles to various real-life interpersonal relationships.
PREREQUISITE:
None
CAVEAT: No graduate credit will be awarded if either HBD4752 or HBD4727 have been successfully completed.
COURSE COMPETENCIES
UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:
- Defining types of love demonstrated with kindness, consideration, and respect appropriate for spouse, family, friend, vocational, and/or other relationships.
- Knowing the differences between healthy and unhealthy love and being able to apply true loving methods for self-protection, self-improvement, and personal success.
- Demonstrating a working understanding of practical text strategies and using them to better manage specific personal and/or real-life instances.
- Developing desired goals, realistic expectations, and committed outcomes to achieve a happier, healthier, and more enriched life.
- Studying how the perception process influences interpersonal relationships.
- Identifying the elements of effective interpersonal communications.
- Describing nonverbal communication and its relationship to better understanding.
- Exploring effective ways in which people listen and respond to each other.
- Creating strategies in difficult relationships to manage conflict collaboratively.
- Implementing methods for responding nondefensively to criticism.
- Describing, respecting, nurturing, and appreciating relational differences.
- Learning ways to practice consideration, compassion, service, and emotional support with reasonable giving.
- Exploring ways to help and encourage others to demonstrate healthy loving attitudes, expressions, and actions.
- Creating uplifting, happy, and fun moments together in both intimate and non-intimate relationships.
- Studying biblical teachings of godly love to enhance personal effectiveness.