Day: Mondays
Time: 2:00-2:50 p.m.
Location: BLDG 387, Rm. 103
Enrollment Code: 62257
Description:
The purpose of this freshman seminar will be to acquaint students with communication patterns that foster risk or resilience (strength or resolve) in families. In particular, we will look at parental communication patterns that place children's well-being at risk and those that help them thrive. In addition to exploring the research and theories surrounding this topic, we will have guest speakers from Santa Barbara (e.g., counselors, specialists in town) talk about their experiences. Reading Assignments and Activities: I will have students do weekly reflection papers to apply the material to their own experiences.
Professor Tamara Afifi, joined the communication faculty in the fall of 2006 after five years at Penn State University. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999. Most of her research focuses on how family members cope communicatively with the challenges they face throughout the divorce process. In addition to being one of the few communication scholars who studies post-divorce families, what often separates her work from other scholars is her triangulation of data or the incorporation of a variety of methodological approaches to study a particular phenomenon.
Email: tafifi@comm.ucsb.edu
