Graduate Certificate - Financial Counseling

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Fall 2021 Course Information

Financial Counseling

University:

North Dakota State University

Course Number:

HDFS 677

Credit Hours:

3 credit hours - $590 per credit

Start/End Dates:

August 23, 2021 - December 17, 2021

Course Description

This course is about theory and research regarding the interactive process between clients and practitioner, including communication techniques, motivation and esteem building, the counseling environment, ethics, and methods of data intake, verification and analysis. Other topics of the course are legal issues, compensation, uses of technology to identify resources, information management, and current or emerging issues.

Contacts

Instructor

Jim Deal
Office: 701-231-7568
Fax: 701-231-9645
jim.deal@ndsu.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

Financial Counseling
Pulviso
Edition: 3rd. 10
ISBN: 978-0615352091

Surviving Debt: Expert Advice for Getting Out of Financial Trouble
ISBN-13: 978-1602481763
Edition: 2020 50th NCLC Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 1602481768
Publisher: National Consumer Law Center

Course Access

Blackboard at NDSU

Approximately three weeks before the first day of class at North Dakota State University, campus coordinator Melissa Selders-Ortez will touch base with students via email. She will encourage students to look for an email the week before classes start that will include instructions for accessing courses at NDSU.

One week before NDSU classes begin, students will receive Melissa's email which includes their ID number, user ID name and instructions for setting up their Blackboard account at NDSU. Students may then set their own password and security questions, choose to forward emails to a different account, and activate their NDSU Live account.

Courses may not be visible to students until the first day of classes.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

University Members

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