Master's Degree - Family & Community Services

Course Information
Working with Military Families

Course Description
This course provides students with the initial information necessary to prepare a service-provider for work with military families. Course participants are introduced to the culture, context, and complexities of the contemporary military family. This course equips learners to work in capacities that support military families through times of challenge, helping them foster resilience as they cope with military life.
Contacts
Instructor

Janet Crow
jrc7676@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.


Textbooks

Serving military families: Theories, research, and application.
Blaisure, K., Saathoff-Wells, T., Pereira, A., Wadsworth, S., & Dombro, A.
ISBN: 978-1-138-84125-3
Publisher: Routledge


Course Access
 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email course access instructions to visiting students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, visiting students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.
– – Sonya Carney, Gerontology Master's Graduate,
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