Marriage and Family Studies Major and Learning Outcomes

Marriage and Family Studies Major Mission Statement

The mission of the marriage and family studies major is to engage its students in the intellectual and moral formation necessary for the development of strong marriages and solid families through an interdisciplinary engagement with the best that the Catholic intellectual tradition can provide, as this is realized within the Salesian and Christian humanism that characterize the mission of DeSales University.

Marriage and Family Studies Major Student Learning Outcomes

Students who graduate from DeSales University with a major in marriage and family studies will be able to:

1. articulate the theological and philosophical foundations for marriage and the family;
2. detail the historical development of marriage and the family;
3. apply contemporary social science research to issues in marriage and the family;
4. apply the formation that they have received to areas relevant to the preservation and promotion of marriage and the family.