Master's Degree - Family Financial Planning

Course Information
Financial Theory & Research I

Course Description
This course introduces students to the social science of family relationships as they relate to the processes of family finance and financial planning. The course covers theories of family functioning, microeconomic theory related to family resource allocation decisions, the family as an economic unit, and the influence of the economy on families.
Contacts
Instructor

M.J. Kabaci
Office: 678-654-8546
mary.kabaci@montana.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

Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions
Christine A. Price Askeland, Kevin Bush, and Sharon Price (2017)
Edition: 5th Edition
ISBN: 13:978-1483366753
Publisher: Sage

The Economics of Women, Men, and Work (2017)
Francine Blau and Anne E. Winkler
Edition: 8th
ISBN: 13:978-0190620851


Course Access
 
Approximately three weeks before the first day of class, Montana State University emails course confirmation letters containing course start and end dates, required textbooks/materials, library access and other important information.
 
Approximately 7-10 days before the course start date, students receive a letter via regular mail containing their username and password to access Desire2Learn at MSU
  • Students are encouraged to contact M.J. Kabaci if they have changed their mailing address.
  • MSU-Bozeman students will not receive a letter containing their username and password. They will receive separate instructions on how to obtain their usernames and passwords.
Courses may not be available to students until 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.

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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