HDFS 150B1 Men, Fatherhood & Families: Biocultural Perspectives

This course examines factors that contribute to variability in men's fatherhood roles, and the effects of fatherhood and fathering roles on men, their children, and their families. This is a topic with which we all have some experience and personal knowledge. This course will provide students with the tools and knowledge to expand their understanding of fathers in their own lives and across society utilizing several disciplinary lenses. The course is grounded in three theoretical perspectives to help us understand fatherhood as an adaptive human behavior across time and place. Applying a synthesis of these theoretical perspectives helps us to understand variability in paternal behavior in the context of human development and human adaptations to social and ecological conditions