Master of Family Jurisprudence
Course Outcomes
All (12)
Program sections (12)
Required Specialized Program Requirements
5111126Contemporary Family Issues and Transformations3
- Knowledge and Understanding: The student explains the terms related to the family and identifies the extent of its development in sociology, law and Islamic jurisprudence.
- Analysis: The student analyzes models of the contemporary transformations surrounding the Emirati family, through national policies directed at strengthening the cohesion of the Emirati family in the face of globalization and imported patterns.
- Application: The student identifies the most prominent contemporary transformations from a practical standpoint, and reveals their impact on aspects of family life.
- Research Skills: The student writes a research paper on a topic of contemporary transformations and proposes solutions and answers to it.
- Critique and Comparison: The ability to measure the competencies for assessing the demographic and statistical impact of contemporary transformations and their effect on family cohesion and stability.
- Professional and Digital Skills: The student employs databases, digital libraries and indexes to access and verify references and texts related to the knowledge of contemporary transformations and their effects on the family.
5121128Mental Health and Its Family Implications3
- Knowledge and Understanding: The student explains the psychological indicators that affect family stability and their reflections on the marital and parental relationship, drawing on recognized scientific theoretical frameworks (such as the Cognitive Appraisal and Coping Theory of Lazarus and Folkman).
- Analysis: The student analyzes the manifestations of the psychological state in patterns of family interaction and communication, and classifies the psychological disorders most frequently encountered in the family context with a descriptive, not diagnostic, classification.
- Application: In a studied family case, the student distinguishes between what falls within the Sharia and counseling consideration and what requires referral to the psychological specialty.
- Research Skills: The student documents their sources from recognized Sharia and psychological studies, and uses them in preparing a documented case study.
- Critique and Comparison: The student compares the pathways of Sharia counseling intervention with the pathways of specialized psychological intervention, and derives the points of complementarity between them.
- Professional Skills: The student applies the controls for referral to the psychological institutions concerned with the family in the UAE within the limits of their professional specialization.
5121129Family Jurisprudence Issues3
- Knowledge and Understanding: The student analyzes the foundational (usuli) concepts and contemporary family jurisprudential issues (nawazil), explaining the resolutions issued by the fiqh academies and the UAE Council for Sharia Fatwa.
- Scientific Analysis: The student analyzes contemporary medical and economic reports and events, and adapts them jurisprudentially according to the rules of ijtihad and takhrij al-furu' 'ala al-usul (deriving branch rulings from foundational principles).
- Critique and Usuli Preference (Tarjih): The student critically discusses the evidence and ijtihad trends of the fiqh academies, and gives preference among them using the controls of objective (maqasidi) and foundational reasoning.
- Comparison and Judicial Application: The student compares jurisprudential ijtihad with the judicial principles issued by the Federal Supreme Court and the Courts of Cassation in the State, detailing the practical application of contemporary issues.
- Professional Writing and Research: The student completes applied jurisprudential research and drafts memoranda of jurisprudential and judicial reasoning, justified in a rigorous academic style.
5121127Family Legislation and Policies in the UAE3
- CLO1 – Is able to survey the structure of the legislative system and family policies in the United Arab Emirates, identifying their domains and the relationships between their components and their legal and strategic frameworks.
- CLO2 – Is able to analyze the declared legislative rulings and objectives and their connection to Sharia rulings and objectives.
- CLO3 – Is able to compare the legislative treatment and the jurisprudential treatment of one of the family issues.
- CLO4 – Is able to evaluate national family policies and their impact on family stability, cohesion and quality of life, based on appropriate analytical criteria and documented evidence.
- CLO5 – Is able to critique the relationship between jurisprudential rulings and UAE legislation on family issues, explaining the points of agreement and differentiation, their causes and their effects on the legal organization of the family.
- CLO6 – Is able to prepare a report or a family policy memorandum containing results and developmental recommendations based on documented legislative and policy analysis.
5111132Objectives of Sharia and Jurisprudence of Family Stability3
- CLO1 – Knowledge and Understanding
- Explains the meaning of the objectives of Sharia and their importance in achieving family stability.
- CLO2 – Analysis
- Analyzes the Sharia rulings related to family jurisprudence correctly, based on recognized rules grounded in the objectives of Sharia.
- CLO3 – Application
- Applies the objectives of Sharia in practice to achieve family stability, proceeding from the legislation of the United Arab Emirates.
- CLO4 – Research Skills
- Uses the objectives of Sharia correctly in deriving Sharia rulings for emerging jurisprudential issues related to family jurisprudence.
- CLO5 – Critique and Comparison
- Compares ijtihad-based rulings and different jurisprudential opinions to achieve family stability based on the objectives of Sharia.
- CLO6 – Professional and Digital Skills
- Employs indexes, databases and digital libraries in objective-based family scientific research in accordance with recognized scientific rules.
5111112Family Theories and Their Dynamics3
- CLO1 – Knowledge and Understanding
- The researcher explains Family Systems Theory and Role Theory, and distinguishes among the governing psychological and family sociology theories (attachment, life cycle, stress and adaptation).
- CLO2 – Analysis
- The researcher analyzes the dynamics of communication, authority, boundaries and intergenerational relationships in a proposed family system according to Systems Theory, and determines the distribution of roles and their conflicts according to Role Theory.
- CLO3 – Application
- The researcher applies Attachment Theory or Family Life Cycle Theory to a proposed family case to explain its behavior.
- CLO4 – Research Skills
- The researcher documents their sources from recognized Arabic and foreign psychological and family sociology studies, and uses them in preparing a documented case study.
- CLO5 – Critique and Comparison
- The researcher analyzes the dynamics of a proposed marital relationship in light of Gottman's theory of marital adjustment, and compares models of intervention in family crises.
- CLO6 – Professional Skills
- The researcher employs models of family stress and adaptation in designing a theoretical response to a proposed family crisis, within the limits of pure psychological-social theoretical specialization.
5111123Methods of Family Guidance and Reform3
- CLO1 – Knowledge and Understanding
- The student explains the concept of family guidance and reform, its methods, its theoretical schools and its Sharia foundations, identifying the theorists of each school.
- CLO2 – Analysis
- The student analyzes a proposed family problem, and determines its nature, causes and parties.
- CLO3 – Application
- The student employs family mediation skills or organized Sharia arbitration in resolving a proposed marital or family dispute.
- CLO4 – Research Skills
- The student documents their sources from specialized Sharia and counseling studies in family mediation and dispute resolution, and uses them in preparing a documented case study.
- CLO5 – Critique and Evaluation
- The student evaluates the effectiveness of an institutional family intervention model or program applied in the UAE.
- CLO6 – Professional Skills
- The student manages a complex family dispute with intertwined psychological and legal dimensions, formulating procedural coordination mechanisms with the judicial and health authorities within the limits of their specialization and the controls for protecting family privacy.
5121132The Family in the Digital Age3
- - Knowledge and Understanding
- The researcher interprets the transformations of digital family relationships in light of scientific theories that explain the impact of algorithms and virtual environments.
- - Analysis
- The researcher analyzes the opportunities and risks associated with a specific digital technology in the family context, based on specific methodological frameworks for measuring its impact.
- - Application
- The researcher applies the controls of digital privacy and data protection based on the texts of the UAE Personal Data Protection Law and the Cybercrime Law specifically.
- - Research Skills
- The researcher documents their sources from recognized Sharia, technical and international studies, and uses them in preparing a documented critical study.
- - Critique and Comparison
- The researcher evaluates the models of protection and the approved digital programs for confronting family digital risks, and ethically critiques the applications of artificial intelligence in family counseling.
- - Professional and Digital Skills
- The researcher designs a practical strategy to promote positive digital parenting and reduce the risks of virtual family breakdown, consistent with the National Policy for Digital Quality of Life.
5111130Jurisprudential Theories and Their Applications to Family Issues3
- Knowledge and Understanding: The student explains the major jurisprudential theories as overarching frameworks transcending schools, and distinguishes the Maliki school's treatment of each theory from the treatment of other schools.
- Analysis: The student analyzes the theories of right and contract and their applications in the texts of the UAE Civil Transactions Law and the UAE Personal Status Law.
- Application: The student employs at least two jurisprudential theories together in an integrated manner in analyzing a complex contemporary family judicial case.
- Research Skills: The student documents their sources from classical and contemporary books on jurisprudential theories and from UAE legislative texts, and uses them in building a documented jurisprudential-legal treatment.
- Critique and Comparison: The student compares the treatment of Islamic jurisprudence across its schools with the treatment of UAE law of a single jurisprudential theory, and derives the points of agreement and difference.
- Professional Skills: The student constructs a comprehensive theoretical treatment of a contemporary family case that employs several jurisprudential theories tied to their legislative texts, distinct from the treatment of individual cases that is the specialty of the course "Family Jurisprudence Issues."
5121131Research Methods in Family and Social Studies3
- CLO1 – Knowledge and Understanding
- The student explains the characteristics of research in family and social studies, and distinguishes between research methods (case study, content analysis, descriptive survey) and data collection tools (questionnaire, interview).
- CLO2 – Analysis
- The student analyzes a proposed family research problem, and derives its questions, hypotheses and variables.
- CLO3 – Application
- The student designs a research instrument (questionnaire or interview guide) suitable for a proposed family research topic, and applies it in practice or in simulation.
- CLO4 – Research Skills
- The student collects and analyzes family data through preliminary descriptive and inferential analysis, documented using one of the digital software programs, observing the rules of academic documentation.
- CLO5 – Critique and Comparison
- The student compares the different social research methods, including mixed design, and evaluates the suitability of each to diverse family topics.
- CLO6 – Professional and Ethical Skills
- The student adheres to research ethics, confidentiality of information, and sensitivity in dealing with families and human cases at all stages of their research.
5111125Family and Child Protection3
- CLO1 – Knowledge and Understanding
- The student explains the concepts of family and child protection, patterns of violence and abuse, and their indicators in Sharia controls and UAE legislation.
- CLO2 – Analysis
- The student analyzes the cases and events related to abuse and family violence scientifically, in accordance with the laws of the State.
- CLO3 – Application
- The student applies preventive intervention methods to protect the child and deal with abuse cases, including reporting procedures, execution and institutional referral, in coordination with protection centers and the competent authorities.
- CLO4 – Research Skills
- The student completes specialized scientific research on child and family protection issues in accordance with the adopted jurisprudential, legal and social methodologies.
- CLO5 – Critique and Comparison
- The student compares jurisprudential ijtihad with the national and international laws issued to protect the rights of the child and the family, explaining the legislative characteristics of the UAE.
- LO6 – Professional and Digital Skills
- The student employs the approved digital platforms and systems for protecting the child and the family, observing the professional standards adopted for judicial officers and child protection specialists in the UAE.