Master's Degree

2019 Spring Course Info
Crises Across the LifespanFamily DynamicsFamily Resource ManagementFoundations and Principles of Family and Community ServicesInterpersonal RelationshipsParenting EducationProgram Administration and ManagementProgram Design, Evaluation and ImplementationResilience in Families
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Course Information
Family Resource Management
Course Description
This course offers a survey of current personal finance and family resource management literature to provide an overview of current consumer finance research from multiple perspectives.
Contacts
Instructor

Maurice MacDonald
Office: 785-532-1594
FAx: 785-532-5505
morey@ksu.edu

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

Resource Management for Individuals and Families
Elizabeth B. Goldsmith
Edition: 5th
ISBN: 9780132955140

168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 978-1591844105
Publisher: Portfolio

Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever
James Wallman
ISBN: 1591843313
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
ISBN: 9780544303188
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Comments

The "Resource Management for Individuals and Families" textbook is required. Students can choose two out of three of the other textbooks.

Faculty
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