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2021 Spring Course Info
Occupational Programs in FCSResearch Experience in Family and Consumer SciencesTeaching FCS with TechnologyCritical Science Perspectives in FCS EducationFamily Issues & Social Action (Public Policy)Psychology of AdolescenceProfession in Focus
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Spring 2021 Course Information
Family Issues & Social Action (Public Policy)
Course Description
This course allows students to assess how Family and Consumer Science Education professionals can impact family and community issues. Attention will be given to the role of the educator in critically examining these issues through FCS programs.
Contacts
Instructor

Paula Tripp
Office: 405-477-4166
Fax: 405-744-6344
paula.j.tripp@okstate.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 Policy Matters: How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do
Bogenschneider, K.
Edition: 3rd 2014
ISBN: 10 : 0415844487
Publisher: New York, NY: Routledge

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
Edition: 7th 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4338-3217-8
Publisher: American Psychological Association

The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing
Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper
Edition: 12th 2019
ISBN: 9781319104375
Publisher: Macmillan Learning

Course Access
 
The OSU campus coordinator, Karla Sisco, will contact students approximately three weeks prior to the beginning of a semester with preliminary information, and again one week prior to the beginning of the semester with login name and password. OSU's online courses are facilitated by Canvas.
Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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