Master's Degree - Family Financial Planning

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Drops and Refunds:

Students adhere to the drop and refund policies and deadlines of their home university.

Course Information

Financial Counseling

University:

North Dakota State University

Course Number:

HDFS 677

Credit Hours:

3 credit hours - $580 per credit

Start/End Dates:

January 08, 2019 - May 10, 2019

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

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
Pulvino
Edition: 3rd 10
ISBN: 9780615352091
Publisher: Inst Enter

Guide to Surviving Debt
Loonin
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 978-1602481626
Publisher: Natl Cons

The Road to 850, Proven Strategies for Increasing Your FICO Credit Scores
Bingham
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9793695
Publisher: CP Publishing (2011)

Course Access

Blackboard at NDSU

Approximately three weeks before the first day of class at North Dakota State University, campus coordinator Stacy Duffield 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 Stacy'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.

Faculty

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.

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As a career switcher, returning student with over the 10-year gap, and non-native English-speaking learner, I was worried that I couldn't complete the Initial Teacher Certification program within a couple of years. The professors are extremely knowledgeable and experienced in each subject and support students to succeed compassionately in any possible way. The master's courses are well-designed and rewarding as I can see my learning progress instantly. Thanks to Great Plains IDEA, I am starting my new career being a high school FCS teacher this fall!
– – Akiko Mallow, Family and Consumer Sciences Education Master's Student,
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