Master's Degree - Family & Community Services

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2024 Fall Course Info
Crises Across the LifespanFamily DynamicsFoundations and Principles of Family and Community ServicesInterpersonal RelationshipsLifespan DevelopmentParenting EducationProgram Administration and ManagementProgram Design, Evaluation, and ImplementationResilience in FamiliesGrant Development & Management
2024 Summer Course Info
Family Resource ManagementLifespan DevelopmentNonprofits in a Global SocietyFamilies in Poverty
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Course Information
Families in Poverty
Course Description
This course focuses on causes and impact of poverty, the relationship and interrelationship of poverty to individual and family functioning, and programs, actions and proposed actions to break the poverty cycle.
Contacts
Instructor

Laurie Bulock
Office: 517-355-7680
bulockla@msu.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

Family Poverty in Diverse Contexts
Broussard, C. Anne and Joseph, Alfred
Edition: 2009
ISBN: 0789037416
Publisher: Routledge

Writing literature reviews: A guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences
Galvin, Jose L.
Edition: 5th or more recent
ISBN: 0141007231206
Publisher: Pycczak

Course Access
 
Approximately three weeks before the semester begins, the Registrar's Office enrolls the student in the class and assigns them a student number (PID) and 4 digit passcode (PAN). These are sent to the student in two separate emails using the email address listed in ExpanSIS. The student must use the PID and PAN to activate their MSU email address. After 24-48 hours, the student can access the class through the course management system. The course information pages are sent multiple times to any and all e-mail addresses listed for the student in ExpanSIS.
Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Comments

The Writing Literature Reviews text is a recommended text.

Faculty
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Macy Burgess is a graduate of the family and community services degree.I made the decision to switch specializations in my master’s program mid-way through my degree. This change took me from the traditional on-campus experience to the Great Plains IDEA online experience. The switch seemed intimidating to me but it ended up being an incredible experience that I would not have gotten if I'd taken all classes at one university. Getting to dive into courses offered at schools all over the country was beneficial as it opened pathways for communication and sharing of knowledge with students and faculty I would not normally have interacted with. 

– – Macy Burgess, Family and Community Services Graduate Student,
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