The Power and Wisdom of Love

The course discusses love from both a personal and societal perspective. Students are encouraged to examine how love operates in their own lives through personal self-assessment, by applying text recommendations to personal needs and goals, and by sharing issues and ideas in a lecture class setting or in an online discussion forum. During the course, students are expected to be able to understand and apply relational principles to real-life situations.

CAVEAT: No graduate credit will be awarded if HBD4752 has been successfully completed.

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

• Defining time-tested principles of respectful power, situational wisdom, and healthy love.
• Describing individual benefits of becoming a loving person.
• Knowing 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.
• Mentally analyzing strategies to better balance self/others needs and expectations.
• Exploring degrees of love within friendships, family, and spousal relationships.
• Understanding, respecting, nurturing, and appreciating relational differences.
• Encouraging and helping others to demonstrate healthy loving attitudes, expressions, and actions.
• Knowing how to practice consideration, compassion, service, and emotional support with reasonable giving.
• Creating uplifting, happy, and fun moments together in both intimate and non-intimate relationships.
• Wisely communicating with a loving attitude, with sincere listening, and with meaningful feedback.
• Using biblical teachings of godly love to enhance personal effectiveness.
• Practicing a healthy, harmonious, and loving balance in all relationships, including the difficult ones.
• Examining, analyzing, and in some cases researching the above competencies on a graduate level and assessing how each can be properly applied to real-life situations.