Power of Love in Relationships

PREREQUISITE:

None

CAVEAT: No graduate credit will be awarded if either HBD4752/5752 or HBD4727/5727 have been successfully completed.

COURSE COMPETENCIES

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Contrasting types of love demonstrated with kindness, consideration, and respect appropriate for spouse, family, friend, vocational, and/or other relationships.
• Comparing 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.
• Implementing desired goals, realistic expectations, and committed outcomes to achieve a happier, healthier, and more enriched life.
• Analyzing how the perception process influences interpersonal relationships.
• Critiquing the elements of effective interpersonal communications.
• Exercising nonverbal communication and its relationship to better understanding.
• Explaining effective ways in which people listen and respond to each other.
• Implementing strategies in difficult relationships to manage conflict collaboratively.
• Demonstrating methods for responding nondefensively to criticism.
• Understanding, respecting, nurturing, and appreciating relational differences.
• Knowing ways to practice consideration, compassion, service, and emotional support with reasonable giving.
• Practicing skills to help and encourage others to demonstrate healthy loving attitudes, expressions, and actions.
• Developing uplifting, happy, and fun moments together in both intimate and non-intimate relationships.
• Applying biblical teachings of godly love to enhance personal effectiveness.
• Researching and analyzing selected competencies that can be effectively applied to personal real-life situations.