Interesting article
Hi Everyone,I recently read a very interesting article. Here is a part of what was written in the article:Colleges offer classes on relationshipsMUNCIE, Ind. - Over the last 30 years, academics have been developing the study of "close relationships," as they call it, forming the International Association for Relationship Research to share resources and data. In recent years, though, some professors have moved beyond theory, making the discussion more personal to students by teaching relationship skills they can use outside the classroom.
Some call it Relationships 101 — a concept that has proven wildly popular on campuses across the country.
Such research is "not just about what makes people happy but how relationships can affect other things — for instance, someone's health," says Lisa Baker, an assistant professor of psychology at Purchase College, part of the State University of New York.When Scott Hall wants to spark a discussion, he asks his students something bound to provoke a reaction: Do women want more out of marriage than men?
The students in Hall's course on marriage at Ball State University — many of them women — laugh and nod at his question. Most of them agree with research he cites stating that men are most interested in a partner who's attractive and good in bed.
But not Mike Toscano, a 21-year-old senior: "It's not 'Oh she looks cute and she cooked a pot pie,'" he says. "I want to be held once in a while, too, y'all."
The comment draws more laughter, as Toscano blushes and smiles.
"I'm glad he feels that way," Anitra Montgomery, a 22-year-old junior, responds to the class. "But he is rare!"
Toscano says he and his girlfriend, Bethany Ringrose, decided to take the class together this term to see if they want to take their relationship to the next level.
"It helps me understand my actions and his, too," says Ringrose, a 20-year-old junior at the school in central Indiana.
If you want to read more, go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6968834/
Ok, here is my question: Would you be interested in taking a class on relationships?
Why/Why not?I look forward to your answers.
Bye,bye Mark

2 Comments:
I would like to tsle this class, for relationship among people is getting more and more different but important than before. I think we will have to get along with others for most of out lifetime, why not learn how to keep a good relationship with others? I believe it will be a mode to take this kind of class.^^
Hello, this is Daniela of sophomore
I would like to take this course for relationship is unexpendable to almost everybody. Some other college had held some activities about it, such as a day for girl to invite the boy that she like to have a meal etc. I think that is interesting but did not really help a lot.
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