Courses - Winter 2025
FMSC111
Credit Cards and College Students
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Recommended: Moderate level of computer literacy, especially Internet and ELMS. Reliable computer and Internet access.
Credit only granted for: FMSC111, FMSC341 or FMSC498D.
Formerly: FMSC498D.
Provides college students with factual information about basic money management skills, emphasizing the responsible use of credit, specifically credit cards. Topics will include financial goals, spending plan, wise use of credit, debt management, consumer credit protection, and ID Theft. Online lessons will include video clips and interactive class activities. Students will learn the basics to build a strong financial future.
FMSC123
Personal Financial Literacy: From Distress to Success
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Exploring strategic thinking, career, education, financial planning during college years as the foundation for success in living a meaningful life. While introducing relevant institutions and tools & techniques that are critical for financial planning, this course applies value-based goal setting and strategic planning that inform individuals' paths for a successful career, educational attainment, and optimum (mental, physical and financial) wellbeing throughout their life cycle. The course particularly emphasizes the individual's responsibility of living in an institution rich society, where, continuous learning, understanding institutions, rational decision-making, valuing relationships and networking, early career development, record keeping, budgeting, generating income and wealth, purposeful spending, saving and investing, tax planning, appropriate use of loans, risk taking and insurance, and retirement planning are well rewarded and ensure the optimum use of college years and the rest of life-course.
FMSC190
An examination of changing fatherhood roles, health, and inequality in diverse families. Focus will be on masculinities and disparities among men by race and class; provider role expectations; and trauma and violence faced by men in contemporary society.
FMSC241
Personal Financial Management: Achieving Your Financial Goals
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Personal Financial Management provides you with tools and techniques to monitor, evaluate, and control your finances as you work towards achieving your financial goals. You'll learn to actively organize your finances, develop clear paths to your objectives, and successfully attain them. Topics covered include budgeting, assessing the time-value of money, tax planning, loan management, health and asset insurance, and investment strategies for lifelong financial security.
FMSC260
Couples, Marriage, and Families: Intimate Relationship Across the Life Course
Covers the different aspects of couple relationships and family life. This includes common problems in couple relationships, and resources to strengthen couple and family relationships. You will also learn about stages of relationships, theories of love and family, policy related to couples and family formation, and how research is conducted with couples and families. Together, we will discuss and explore issues that couples and families face in modern times and will consider how many of these issues have changed due to policy, technology, attitudes, and a variety of other societal factors that impact relationships in the 21st century. You will also learn important methods of strengthening current and future relationships.
For more information about this online class and requirements, click on this link and scroll down to the course.
FMSC270
Sex, Drugs, and Social Media: Adolescent Health and Development
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
This course will ask: How can families, schools, communities, and society help adolescents to navigate contemporary stressors and develop into physically and mentally healthy adults? To do this, we will use research, and an understanding of adolescent development, to explore and analyze issues affecting the health and behavior of American adolescents. Such issues include (but are not limited to) sex education, the role of social media in mental health, substance use, policing in schools, dating violence, suicide prevention, access to sexual and reproductive health care, and school start times. We will consider how adolescent well-being is shaped by social contexts, including the role of parents and family members, peers, schools, communities, social media, and culture. We will examine policies and programs that affect adolescents, how effective they are at promoting adolescent health, and how they might be improved to better support healthy adolescent development.
FMSC310
Maternal, Child and Family Health
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Credit only granted for: FMSC310, FMSC410 or FMSC498A.
Formerly: FMSC498A and FMSC410.
Additional information: A comprehensive understanding of maternal, child, and family health, with additional emphasis on environmental health, needs assessment and evaluation, enabling students to more effectively address issues in the workplace.
Overview of the major issues in Maternal, Child, and Family Health in the U.S. and the world. The course will cover the social, political, environmental, and economic factors that shape the health of women, children, and families throughout the life course. It will employ the core disciplines of public health -- 1) epidemiology/biostatistics, 2) environmental health, 3) health policy and administration, and 4) social and behavioral health -- to examine these factors. The course introduces specific issues and interventions and places these issues and interventions within their broad sociohistorical context.
FMSC330
Restriction: Junior standing or higher.
The objective of this gateway course is to help you understand and apply basic theories and empirical data on family health. The course is designed to provide you with skills to think critically about theories including: Life Course Theory, the Bio-Ecological and Social-Ecological Models, and Systems Theory. We will ask questions about the distinct qualities and intersections of contexts and characteristics that impact the functioning of families. We will apply theory and research to topical issues in family health that are impacted by social structures such as conflict, crisis, migration, incarceration and inequalities.
FMSC340
Mental Health and Healing in Families
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Using an interdisciplinary approach to study mental health, mental wellness, and substance use, we will answer questions such as: How has our understanding and treatment of mental health changed throughout history? What are the current prevalence patterns and risk factors associated with mental health conditions? What is the prevention to postvention continuum? What is the role of relationships, families, and communities in addressing mental health? How do we diagnose and treat various mental health disorders using the best available research? And, what are the various mental health disciplines and how do they differ? This course is designed to examine mental health issues across the life course. We will explore the influence of social contexts, including racism and additional forms of othering, on mental health and wellness, and introduce the health systems that support mental health prevention and treatment.
FMSC341
Personal and Family Finance
Credit only granted for: FMSC341 or FMST341.
Formerly: FMST341.
Individual and family financial strategies with emphasis on financial planning, savings, investments, insurance, income taxes, housing, and use of credit. Planning, analyzing, and controlling financial resources to resolve personal/family financial problems and to attain financial security.
For more information about this online class and requirements, click on this link and scroll down to the course.
FMSC399
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
FMSC444
Personal Financial Planning
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Jointly offered with: FMSC644.
Credit only granted for: FMSC444 or FMSC644.
Provides a solid framework, meaningful context, institutional understanding, and critical skills for solving key personal financial planning problems for the graduating seniors or the graduate students who will enter the job market. Practical illustrations and substantive examples complement formal and intuitive approach for use by current students and tomorrows graduates when succeeding in a dynamic job market with minimal support for managing finances are becoming the norm in our society. Students learn how to manage their finances, improve spending habits, ask the right questions, budget effectively, pay taxes, choose the right bank for their needs, determine whether to buy or lease a car, select the best credit card, recognize what's most important in buying a home, investing, plan for retirement, and make sound decisions.
FMSC460
Prerequisite: SOCY100, SOCY105, or PSYC100.
Credit only granted for: FMSC460 or FMST460.
Formerly: FMST460.
Theories of child, spouse, and elder abuse in the family setting. Emphasis on historical, psychological, sociological and legal trends relating to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Introduction to methods for prevention and remediation.
For more information about this online class and requirements, click on this link and scroll down to the course.
FMSC487
Family Law
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Designed for students interested in studying the law, public health, and family science, this course provides students with a general overview of family law and the impact on healthy families. The course also includes the study of cutting-edge issues such as marriage equality, assisted reproduction and ethical issues that may arise.
FMSC630
Family Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: FMSC640.
Restriction: Must be in the Couple and Family Therapy Master's Program.
Credit only granted for: FMSC698P or FMSC630.
Formerly: FMSC698P.
Covers the theory and practice of individual and family therapy with children and adolescents for the treatment of specific psychological disorders and family system challenges. The course covers assessment and unique considerations for treatment management when working with minors as well as specific therapy models and techniques to work with children and adolescents such as structural family therapy, cognitive-behavioral family therapy, attachment-based therapy, and play therapy techniques. The course also includes psycho-educational family interventions and evidence-based practices for assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. The course emphasizes consideration of therapists' and clients' social location as well as socio-culturally attuned, inclusive, and affirming conceptualization, assessment and treatment to serve diverse populations.
In addition to the times listed, this section will also meet on the following Fridays; January 3rd, January 10th, and January 17th, from 9am-1pm.
FMSC632
Testing and Assessment in Couple and Family Therapy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Restriction: Permission of the Family Science department.
Credit only granted for: FMSC698T or FMSC632.
Formerly: FMSC698T.
Graduate course in family, couple, and individual testing and assessment. The course will cover typical procedures and instruments for assessing qualities of individual functioning and relationship functioning, in work with families and couples. Study of the assessment process will include test construction and use of standardized tests, assessments, and rating scales. The use of assessment in treatment plans and treatment outcome evaluation, ethical considerations, and the dissemination of information to clients and others are covered. Also, this course will include classic testing and assessment methods, to ensure familiarity with these measures among CFTs.
FMSC654
Clinical Marriage and Family Therapy Practice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: FMSC651.
Restriction: Must be in Couple and Family Therapy (Master's) program.
Focuses on the integration of ethics, professional identity, and administrative aspects of clinic operations in a practice setting. This course covers all the administrative duties and responsibilities that students have as interns of the Center for Healthy Families from enrollment to graduation from the Couple and Family Therapy program.
FMSC689
Research Internship
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
FMSC698V
Advanced Topics in Family Science; Violence in Families
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FMSC699
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FMSC789
Non-Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
FMSC799
Master's Thesis Research; Master Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
FMSC898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg, S-F
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