HD 4420

Intimate Relationships: Liking, Loving, and Interpersonal Attraction

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This seminar will cover topics in intimacy relationships, especially liking, loving, and interpersonal attraction. Some topics will be: What is love? What leads people to be attracted to (or repelled by) one another? What makes relationships succeed or fail? How does one even know if a relationship is succeeding or failing? How does one repair damaged relationships? When is it time to leave? How does love vary across cultures?

Prerequisites REF-FA25 Recommended prerequisite: introductory psychology.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, D-AG, KCM-AG, SBA-AG), (CA-HE, D-HE, KCM-HE, SBA-HE)

Last 3 terms offered 2023FA, 2020FA

Learning Outcomes REF-FA25

• Compare and contrast alternative approaches to, and theories of, liking, loving, and interpersonal attraction.
• Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of existing measures of love.
• Apply what one has learned about love and intimate relationships to one's work and home life.
• Critique research in the field of intimate relationships.
• Evaluate how the nature of, and levels of love and attraction change over the life course.

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