Title: Competency Assessment: (CU2 M4) Pre-Interview
Course: SkillsCom HDFS 201 16.0 > Section: Credit Unit 2 Module 4 - Intergenerational Dynamics: Aging and Family

DIRECTIONS: Open an MS Word document and save it as Lastname Firstname Pre-Interview. When finished, save again and submit. (Google Doc)

For this Competency Assessment, you will be conducting two interviews covering topics discussed in Credit Unit 2. The data that you collect in your interviews will be used in your Credit Unit 2 Assessment. For this Competency Assessment you will simply be gathering the data and typing up your notes. You will need to submit your two pages of notes that you gathered during these interviews; these notes do not necessarily need to be in complete sentences, but they do need to show that you completed the two interviews and gathered enough information.

ASSESSMENT: You will be interviewing two people from a generation other than your own. You could interview parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or any friends of that generation. You could also interview children who are old enough to answer your questions including grandchildren, nephews, nieces, or any friends of that generation. Please type up your notes from these interviews as you will be submitting them for this assignment and using them as notes on the Credit Unit 2 Assessment.

You might want to review relevant Modules before your interviews so you have in mind concepts, trends, or data to which you want to compare you interviewees’ stories.

You will need to choose one of the following topics to use for both of your interviews:

- Dating
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Remarriage
- Stepfamilies
- Parenting
- Aging
- Other intergenerational relationships, such as uncles and nephews, grandparents and grandchildren

Once you have conducted the interview, you will need to:

1. Submit your notes to complete this Competency Assessment. There should be 2 typed pages, one page for each interview.
2. Print out your notes in order to show them to the Proctor for use during your Credit Unit 2 Assessment. You will be allowed two pages of notes; one for each interview.

INSTRUCTIONS: Here is what you need to find out from your interviewees:

1. Have your interviewees summarize the events or circumstances they are going to talk about, i.e., dating, marriage, divorce, etc. Be sure you are clear about which topic you’ll be addressing. In with your typed notes, you must also include the following information:

a. Who is your interviewee? Include the interviewee's first name, relationship to you, and their current age.

b. What topic will your interviewee discuss?

For example, maybe the person you interview wants to tell you about how they met their spouse. You might ask them to focus on the dating portion of the relationship. You could also ask them to discuss what it’s like to be married, or how their marriage has changed over time.

c. From what perspective will the interviewee tell his/her story?

For example, if you’re interviewing someone about stepfamilies, make sure you say whether the person is talking about the experience from:

    - the perspective of a child
    - a remarried biological parent,
    - or a stepparent.

Pay close attention to the rubric below for criteria on which you will be graded.