Solomon will be teaching the course along with a team of four other faculty, all affiliated with Northwestern’s Family Institute, and 11 teaching assistants. “Developmentally, this is what the college years are all about: Students are thinking about who they are as people, how they love, who they love, and who they want as a partner,” Alexandra Solomon, a professor and a family therapist, says. The Marriage 101 professors believe college is the perfect time for students to learn about relationships. The class is kept to a manageable size so that students can grapple at a deeply personal level with the material during their discussion sessions. This spring, the enrollment will be capped at 100. In fact, teachers are forced to turn away eager prospective students every year. But the instructors say it’s not an easy A and its reputation as a meaningful, relevant, and enlightening course has grown steadily over the 14 years it’s been offered. Students attend one lecture a week and then meet in smaller breakout groups to discuss the weekly topics, which include infidelity, addiction, child-rearing, and sexuality in long-term relationships.Īt first glance, this class may seem a tad too frivolous for a major research university. In Marriage 101, popular books such as Mating in Captivity and For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage are interspersed with meaty academic studies. The goal of their course is to help students have more fulfilling love relationships during their lives. Instructors of Northwestern University’s Marriage 101 class want to change that. Yet nearly half of all married couples are likely to divorce, and many couples report feeling unhappy in their relationships. Research shows that practically every dimension of life happiness is influenced by the quality of one’s marriage, while divorce is the second most stressful life event one can ever experience.
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