Child, Youth and Family Studies (CYAF)

Description: Introductory exploration of the adult learning literature to understand how coaching can support adult professional learning. Identification of key research-based practices to use when coaching in early childhood. Discussion on how to use these key practices in a variety of early childhood settings with a variety of early childhood professionals. Introductory understanding of how to use and evaluate their coaching.

Description: Opportunity to enact and receive feedback on using knowledge gained in the CYAF 800. Work on developing coaching key practices in real-world contexts and gain a preliminary understanding of how to implement and reflect on coaching.

Description: Build upon students' developing knowledge, skills, and dispositions to deepen and advance coaching practices developed in CYAF 800: Coaching Methods I and CYAF 800L Coaching Practicum I. Further students' abilities to support teachers in collecting data and using data to inform instruction. Effective coaching discussions will bring together a variety of key coaching strategies, as well as discussion on how to use these key practices in a variety of early childhood settings.

Description: Opportunity to build upon previously developed coaching skills in order to enhance their enactment of coaching strategies while also building self-reflection skills and receiving feedback on practice. Enhancement of understanding of how to implement, reflect on, and refine their own coaching, and build on new knowledge developed in CYAF 801: Coaching Methods II.

Description: Develop key mathematical content knowledge necessary for early childhood professionals through explorations of the five content strands in mathematics: number and operations, algebraic reasoning, measurement, geometry, data analysis probability. Develop logical reasoning and skills. Become effective communicators of mathematical content.

Description: Preparation to teach basic construction skills, understand technology, fabrics, and the uses and applications of textiles within the home, business and industry. Curriculum within the clothing and textiles classes in middle and high school FCS classes should incorporate intellectual and critical thinking skills along with the traditional technical subject matter taught in the past.

Description: The analysis and development of curriculum and methods of teaching Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) in the context of the National Standards for FCS students, the National Standards for teachers of FCS and the standards for the state in which the candidate will teach. Learners and the learning environment; program leadership; beginning instructional strategies; Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA); curriculum development; integration of technology in the FCS classroom; and assessment.

Description: Development of curriculum and methods of teaching Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) in the context of the National Standards for FCS students, the National Standards for teachers of FCS and the standards for the state in which the candidate will teach. Learners and the learning environment; program leadership; beginning instructional strategies; Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA); curriculum development; integration of technology in the FCS classroom and assessment.

Description: Administration of family and consumer sciences programs. Emphasis on educational leadership and related issues in a variety of educational settings.

Description: Procedures for appraisal of individual growth and achievement in all subject areas in family and consumer sciences. Development of evaluative instruments for cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning and interpretation of data in the evaluation of various types of family and consumer sciences programs.

Description: Knowledge and theoretical basis for practicing supervisors in a changing workplace where supervisors have increasing responsibilities due to the flattening or organizational structures, solving supervisory challenges in organizing and planning, problem solving and decision making, performance appraisal and leading a diverse workforce.

Description: Planning and implementing occupational Family and Consumer Sciences programs in career and technical education. Cooperative education, career pathways, and work-based education.

Description: Development of family and consumer sciences programs for secondary schools, colleges, universities, and extension programs. Focus on theories of curriculum and recent trends affecting family and consumer sciences programs.

Description: Using a transdisciplinary team of faculty and guest lecturers, students will be introduced to the interrelationship of obesity and dietary components, behavior, exercise and sports science, physical activity, health promotion, genetics, nutrigenomics, child development, family dynamics, cultural issues, epidemiology, population disparity, educational leadership, public policy and other related topics.

Description: Exploration of migration in a global context, including how policies shape emigration and immigration of families in different parts of the world. Specific attention will be paid to the social, cultural, political, and economic factors related to early childhood education, parenting, adolescent identity, marriage and relationships, elder care, health and wellbeing, and host-country integration.

Description: The course is designed to prepare cooperating teachers within Career & Technical Education, specifically, family and consumer sciences. Supervision of student teachers is an essential component of teacher preparation, and as such, the roles of student teacher, cooperating teacher, university supervisor, and state department of education will be analyzed. Mentoring strategies, evaluation and feedback models and collaborative teaching approaches will also be discussed. An opportunity will be provided to address potential areas of concern regarding teacher preparation.

Description: Explore the dynamics of forced migration across the continuum, with particular emphasis on the effects of migration on the family unit.

Description: Actual and simulated experiences in working with persons through human resources and family sciences in special focused areas of student's choice, e.g., adult education, career education, post-secondary education, special needs programs, consumer affairs.

Description: Two aspects of evaluation in the classroom: 1) selection and use of evaluation in assessing learning, and 2) consideration of conceptual and methodological issues in conducting evaluation to determine and account for the effectiveness of programs.

Description: The concept of violence includes both interpersonal violence (child abuse, violence against women) and collective violence (war, genocide) and their intersections. The nature, causes, agents, and consequences of, as well as responses to violence are examined in the social, political, economic, cultural and global contexts.

Description: Planning and implementing developmentally appropriate educational experiences for a variety of audiences in non-formal settings.

Description: Examines issues faced by beginning or returning Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) teachers. Possible issues are classroom management, planning, selecting resources, and other critical issues to the new teacher. The theory and its application to the students' educational setting discussed for each issue. Includes how teachers can mentor and support one another as a collaborative group.

Description: History, mission, philosophy and development of Family and Consumer Sciences (CYAF) and career and technical education. Societal context for families and communities. Impact of selected legislation on family and consumer sciences programs.

Description: Designed to prepare advisors of Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America chapters, prepare Family and Consumer Sciences teachers to build leadership in students, and raise awareness of FCCLA resources and activities available for FCS teachers to implement in their classroom.

Description: Enhance career through a wide variety of professional development experiences by utilizing local, state, national and international professional associations. Recognize the importance of building a professional network in Family and Consumer Sciences, Home Economics, government, business, and non-profit organizations. Emphasis is given to leadership and professional development, while drawing upon professional and personal experiences at the state, national and international level. Identification of your leadership style and analyze leadership potential for building your own network and memorable experiences at the national and international level.

Description: Risk management concepts, ethical considerations, tools, and strategies for individuals and families. Life insurance; property and casualty insurance; liability insurance; accident, disability, health, and long-term care insurance; and, government-subsidized programs. Case studies provide experience in selecting appropriate insurance products.

Description: 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. Legal issues, compensation, uses of technology to identify resources, information management, and current or emerging issues.

Description: Fundamentals of the estate planning process, including estate settlement, estate and gift taxes, property ownership and transfer, and powers of appointment. Tools and techniques used in implementing an effective estate plan, ethical considerations, and new and emerging issues in the field. Case studies provide experience.

Description: Issues and concepts related to the overall financial planning process and establishing client-planner relationships. Services provided, documentation required, and client-CFP licensee relationships. Competencies related to gathering of client data, determining goals and expectations, and assessing the client's financial status. Emerging issues and the role of ethics.

Description: Basic reading and writing process relating to content literacy including schema theory, comprehension, and second language acquisition. The contribution of content literacy to content material and positive learning environments. Use of a variety of materials including textbooks, literature, Internet resources and media in the content classroom. Assisting diverse students in the use of reading, writing and vocabulary strategies to learn content material.

Description: An overview of the topics relevant to the financial planning process including: Unique needs, terminology, benefits, and resources that impact military service members and their families. Status of service member; financial readiness; financial management; recordkeeping; cash flow management; tax management; retirement management; estate management; and special topics management; risk management; credit and debt management; savings, education planning, and investment. Distance education course delivered by Kansas State University.

Description: This course covers the human development including the cognitive, social-emotional, motor, language, and moral domains from both a lifespan and a bio-ecological perspective.

Description: Micro and macro considerations in retirement planning for individuals and families. Various types of retirement plans, ethical consideration in providing retirement planning services, assessing and forecasting financial needs, integration of retirement plans with government benefits, and current research and theory. Case studies provide experience.

Description: Designed to help Family and Consumer Sciences Educators address the impact of private and public family and related community issues and how to take the appropriate social action in a democratic culture. Attention will be given to the role of the educator in helping students critically examining these issues through FCS programs.

Description: Provides an overview of the research on young children (birth to age five), demographics of this population, critical domains of development, significance of early brain development, and issues of inequality and disproportionality that deeply shape child outcomes.

Description: Advances general early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy knowledge and addresses contextual and historical variables that have affected its evolution in the United States. Provides an overview of the practices, policies, and issues framing the design and delivery of contemporary ECEC. Central to such formulations, the role of parents and families is addressed as a critical contouring variable. Addresses three units: (i) understanding early childhood education and care practice and policy in the United States; (ii) identifying critical policy challenges; and (iii) addressing critical policy challenges.

Description: An introduction to the role(s) of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working with diverse families in U.S. and global settings.

Description: Explore the rapidly growing and changing opportunities of Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investments (SRI), and/or known as Environment, Social and Governmental Investments (ESG), or simply Values and Impact Investments.

Description: Challenges of managing financial planning practices: business valuation, personnel, marketing, client services, ethics and technical applications. Case study analysis, relying on a theoretical and applied approach, will provide practical exposure to management issues. Emphasis on current research findings.

Description: Capstone course integrating both theoretical and applied concepts, including research findings introduced in all other courses. Students develop written financial plans based on comprehensive cases, presented to a panel of practitioners.

Description: Examines the atypical development of youth who are involved in one or more systems of care. Emphasis is on the application of positive youth development principles in serving these youth.

Description: The course is needed for the online specialization in Family and Community Services. This course will examine theories, models, research and skills regarding parenting effectiveness and parent-child relations in the context of Western and Eastern cultures.

Description: This course analyzes the principles and methods of program design, implementation, and outcome evaluation of family programs.

Description: Income tax practices and procedures including tax regulations, tax return preparation, tax audits, appeals, preparation for an administrative or judicial forum, and ethical considerations. Family/individual case studies provide practice in applying and analyzing information.

Description: The role of housing and real estate in the financial planning process from a theoretical perspective. Taxation, legal aspects, mortgages, and financial calculations related to home ownership and real estate investments. New and emerging issues, as well as the role of ethics in financial planning.

Description: Understand grant development and management skills for social/human science fields. Gain confidence in grant development abilities. Learn and use professional writing skills. Does not focus on writing research grants (e.g., NIH RO1, NSF, clinical translation proposals).

Description: Explores how technology can be used for positive youth development and productive family life. Focuses particularly on American and global youth and families. Moves away from a simplistic view of youth and technology (e.g. they have no sense of privacy online, they just don't want to talk to anyone face-to-face) or families and technology (e.g. technology is intruding our valuable dinner time), and aims to understand the true relationship among them and devise ways to live with technology in a positive manner.

Description: The connection and collaboration between services and families will be explored with an emphasis on building family-friendly, family-supportive community structures that harness family strengths.

Description: Steps in preparing a research proposal, including statement of the research question, review of relevant literature, and determination of an appropriate research design and methodology. Research methodology, including both quantitative and qualitative procedures.

Description: Introduction to addictions from a family systems perspective: theories; behavioral patterns; physiological, psychological and social impacts on individuals and the family; and implications for interventions and treatment.

Description: Examines our relationships to sports and how the context of sport engagement contributes to individual development. Discusses the relationship between youth development and sports by examining various contexts in which sports and individuals interact. Explores how sports are a vital part of our identity and development, as well as a way to combat one's marginalized status.

Description: Theories of family functioning, macroeconomic theory related to family resource allocation decisions, the family as an economic unit, and the interaction of the economy and families.

Description: Microeconomic theory as it relates to family resource allocation decisions, theories of household behavior, the life cycle hypothesis, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, theories of behavioral change, and psychological theories of family well-being. Focus on empirical research investigating household financial decision-making.

Description: Exploration of the evolution of a resilience approach to the study of families and human development. Using a lifespan approach, students will explore resilience across time as well as within special populations such as families experiencing crisis and trauma, culturally diverse families, and military families.

Description: Integration of technology in the family and consumer sciences classroom focusing on the National Education Technology Standards (NETS).

Description: Theoretical issues in the area of teaching and leaning as applied in Family and Consumer Sciences. Development of middle and secondary education curriculum in Family and Consumer Sciences using student-centered, interactive methods of instruction.

Description: Practical issues in the area of teaching and learning as applied to Family and Consumer Sciences. Develop teaching and/or learning plans for teaching Family and Consumer Sciences. Analyze classroom management practices and develop plans for assessment.

Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the experiences of individuals and families when crises occur. The course is designed to introduce you to traumatic stress from both individual and systemic theoretical perspectives. It will introduce and review the theoretical and historical beginnings of the concept of trauma, which includes the acceptance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a diagnosis in the DSM IV. This course will discuss various trauma reactions, effects of stressful events, as well as the treatment of trauma, stress and crises. Resilience and transcendence of trauma will be outlined, with an emphasis on the importance of self-care for helping professionals working in this area. A particular focus will be placed in understanding the common and unique experiences of individuals and families affected by grief and loss, addictions and substance abuse, violence, child abuse and neglect, and suicidal ideation based on various contextual factors. The course will include discussion of evidence-based prevention and treatment options as well as community resources for individuals and families affected by stress, trauma, and crises.

Description: The course will examine theories of family function and dysfunction, techniques of assessment, and models of family intervention.

Description: Student differences and ways of adjusting teaching practice to meet individual needs. Application of learning theories to educate the whole child (cognitive, affective, social). Equitable treatment of students.

Description: This course provides an introduction to the program of family and community services and professions that involve working with individuals and families in communities.

Description: Survey course of personal finance and family resource management literature to provide an overview of how individual and family members develop and exercise their capacity to obtain and manage resources to meet life needs. Resources include the self, other people, time, money, energy, material assets, space, and environment.

Description: Normative and non-normative family stressors (e.g. violence, economic conditions, war and political conflict, natural disasters) and how they affect family functioning. Family stress theories are used to understand crisis events and how families can cope and recover.

Description: This course will conduct an in-depth examination of interpersonal relationships, including theoretical perspectives, research methods, relationship forms, relationship processes, and how context affects relationships.

Description: Explores adolescent health and sexuality. Study the personal, social, ecological, economic, political, and cultural determinants and factors that influence adolescent health and sexuality from a population, community health perspective. Implications for professionals working with adolescent health and sexuality will be explored and highlighted.

Description: Provides an introduction to the field of positive youth development (PYD) including an overview of key theory and practice principles that enhance the profession of youth work.

Description: Examines the role of caring adults in promoting the positive development of youth. Explores the spectrum of adult attitudes toward youth as well as activities that invite youth to engage and develop agency. Includes examination of the research and practice of mentorship, youth-adult partnerships, and youth leadership

Description: Research report evaluation skills for youth development professionals. Fundamental quantitative and qualitative research principles guiding disciplined inquiry. Application of research results and theories to practice.

Description: National emphasis of strength-based or asset approach to community youth development, encompassing individual development and adolescent relationships with environments. Research, theory and practice applied in communities. Existing models, theoretical and applied literature, and current community efforts.

Description: Qualitative and quantitative research designs and methods used in conducting research. Students develop a research proposal.

Description: Explore what optimal mental health in youth is and how it can be promoted. Understand current theories and research related to optimal mental health and how promoting positive development is both similar to and different from preventing negative outcomes. Learn to assess a given youth development program in terms of its potential to promote positive mental health.

Description: Focus on the special topic of critical science, both as a theoretical framework and as a practical/rational process for addressing significant and complex problems facing families. Exploration of critical science through reading and discussing published works of scholars, viewing short narrated PowerPoint lectures, and applying principles of critical science to FCS professional practice and research.

Description: Adolescent development as related to and intertwined with family development. Reciprocal influences between adolescents and their families. Working with youth vis a vis the family system.

Description: Introduction to the development, administration and management of youth-serving organizations.

Description: Develop cultural competency skills for Marriage and Family Therapy treatment. Building the skills needed to treat individuals, couples and families on the awareness of ones own culture, the knowledge of other cultures. Understanding past and current contexts for marginalized families and the impact that has on their experience of seeking mental health treatment.

Description: Interdisciplinary approach to the study of human sexuality in terms of the psychological, social, cultural, anthropological, legal, historical, and physical characteristics of individual sexuality and sex in society.

Description: Scientific literature concerning the interrelationship of the physiological, psychological and sociological aspects of the adolescent and young adulthood years. Understanding of individuals and their continuous adjustment within the family life cycle as they make the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Description: Overview of program development process and outcome evaluation of community children and family programs. Theoretical, methodological and programmatic issues in conducting programs and scholarship.

Description: Selection, use, and interpretation of assessment instruments for understanding the developmental level of children from birth through age eight. Assessment of reasoning and thinking processes, concept formation, and social cognition.

Description: Cultural context factors that affect youth from a holistic perspective within and outside the family unit. The cultural heritage of differing family types. Social and educational processes.

Description: Overview of early childhood cognitive development and education. Nature and development of reasoning and thinking processes and concept formation in children. In-depth examination of early childhood cognitive developmental theories and their implications for teachers, parents, and others working with young children.

Description: Discusses the principles and methods of program design, implementation, and evaluation of youth programs. Focuses on hands-on tools of conducting evidence-based planning and evaluating the performance and delivery process of a program. Develop knowledge through participating in a community-based project involving the practical application of program design and evaluation methods. Become prepared for research supported planning and evaluation of programs that aim at positive youth development.

Description: Various federal and state policies designed specifically for youth. Existing state and national policies as to whether they contribute to, or act as barriers to, desired developmental outcomes.

Description: Examines the development, administration and management of youth programs and youth-serving organizations with special focus being on the roles and responsibilities of administrators and managers.

Description: Issues faced by youth such as life skills, violence, and appearance. Topics vary.

Description: Discussion of key issues related to working with diverse children and their families who are coping with chronic and acute pediatric health conditions and their treatment. Content will focus on psychosocial challenges associated with pediatric health conditions and approaches to working with pediatric patients to address their needs and specific challenges encountered in hospitalization and ambulatory care contexts.

Description: Acquire the knowledge, competencies, and experiences that will allow greater participation as a global citizen by examining the historical, cultural, ethnic, economic, systemic and socio-cultural complexities of families.

Description: Experience the rich culture within countries around the world through interactions with families, children, couples and individuals within their country context. Emphasis is on learning about families, early childhood, youth and adults, and the impact of systems and services within the cultural context.

Description: Investment options for families. Common stocks, fixed income securities, convertible securities, and related choices. The relationship between investment options and employee and/or employer benefit plan choices.

Description: Introduction to the trans-disciplinary field of Family Studies from global perspectives. Theoretical and research approaches to the study of the family in varied cultural and national contexts will be explored.

Description: Critical understanding of the diversity of family forms in their cultural contexts. The impact of history, tradition and contemporary trends on families will be explored. Emphasis will be on recognizing, accepting, and working within a context of diversity of culture and family form.

Description: Theoretical, practical and experiential learning to enhance understanding of family strengths and challenges across the world. Principles for developing culturally sensitive strengths-enhancing programming for children and families throughout the world will be addressed.

Description: Analysis of the systems, contexts and policies that affect individuals and families throughout the world.

Description: Analysis of child and family policies, including what is family policy, how policy is made and implemented, how values and goals affect policy and future directions for child and family policies in America and in other countries.

Description: Analysis of the systems, contexts and policies that affect individuals and families throughout the world.

Description: Special topics related to child, youth, and family studies. Topics vary.

Description: Special topics related to child, youth, and family studies.

Description: Special topics related to child, youth, and family studies.

Description: Special topics related to child, youth, and family studies.

Description: Special topics related to child, youth, and family studies.

Description: Aspects of human sciences not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.

Description: Aspects of education not covered elsewhere in the curriculum.

Description: Current issues that today's families experience. Topics vary and include, for example: Gender and family, low-income families, fathers and fatherhood, families with children who have disabilities.

Description: Family and Consumer Sciences Education.

Description: Contemporary ethnic diversity or global family issues. Topics vary and include, for example: Immigrant and refugee families, ethnic diversity and discrimination, global family well-being, and cultural strengths.

Description: Participation in a department sponsored Study Abroad experience. Must enroll in course during time of experience.

Description: Individual projects in research, literature review, or creative production may or may not be an extension of course work.

Description: Integrating development theory into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual and group experiences for young children in the child development laboratory.

Description: Fieldwork in agencies serving children, youth, families and communities.

Description: Development and implementation of teaching plans in supervised schools grades 7-12. Observation of the effectiveness of classroom management practices.

Description: Integrated developmental theories and research evidence into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual and group experiences for children in an infant and toddler program.

Description: Supervised teaching experience in schools.

Description: Integrating developmental theories and research evidence into the planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual and group experiences for children in a classroom experience.

Description: Participation in an ongoing research project in child development studies and/or early childhood education, family science, marriage and family therapy, family and financial management, or family and consumer sciences education.

Description: Facilitate professional development and career readiness of doctoral students

Description: Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy, focusing on the systematic study, analysis, and interpretation of policy. Understand the role that research plays throughout the policy process, learn the main tools used in policy analysis, and to explore different theoretical frames that can be used to interpret and influence current ECEC policy discourse. Become equipped to critically structure a policy problem, as well as to examine and analyze the design, implementation, and outcomes of various policies

Description: Designed to provide a foundational knowledge of the fundamentals of policy creation, design, and development, with an emphasis on those policies that impact early childhood education and care (ECEC). Focuses on how policy is constructed and who and what influences that construction.

Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the philosophy, goals, and methodologies related within the concept of childhood obesity research and to apply the principles of the transdisciplinary nature of childhood obesity prevention and treatment in transdisciplinary obesity prevention research and evaluation. The course will include acquisition of resources to address childhood obesity issues, exposure to funding opportunities, research design and grant development, translation of research or programmatic findings to community and professional audiences.

Description: An applied, monitored, and supervised field based learning experience. Gain practical experience as they follow a negotiated and/or directed plan of study. The purpose of this course is to provide students with transdisciplinary experiential learning experiences related to childhood obesity prevention or treatment. Students will work with the course instructor to determine a practicum site that meets the student's interests and the requirements of the course. Students will work collaboratively with a transdisciplinary team of individuals at the practicum site to meet the course student learning outcomes through hands on experiences.

Description: Supervised classroom experiences designed to develop competencies in teaching at the college level.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.

Description: General systems theory, its derivations and application in family therapy. Family therapy's history, contributions, current theorists, and approaches.

Description: Psychological, behavioral and emotional disorders identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and various interpersonal dysfunctions. Interpersonal antecedents and consequences of these disorders. Integration of individual and family diagnosis. Research supporting treatment from a family systems approach.

Description: Ethical and professional issues that family professionals confront as they assist families to cope with problems and strengthen family systems.

Description: Assessment of family systems using objective and subjective measures for the purpose of clinical intervention and research.

Description: Didactic training and supervised laboratory/clinic-based experiences in marriage and family therapy.

Description: This course examines sexual functioning through a systemic perspective as it relates to clinical practice with individual adults and couples. Research and theories pertaining to sexual development, sexual behavior and expression, and relational sexual functioning are explored. Assessment and treatment of sexual and associated partner relational dysfunctions are examined from theoretical and applied perspectives.

Description: Introduces theory, concepts and practice of medical family therapy. Learn about collaborative healthcare, medical specializations and terminology, assessments commonly used in healthcare settings, and the ways in which biopsychosocial components of patients' and families' lives may impact their experience of health and illness. Begin applying the knowledge and skills learned to clinical practice.

Description: Gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of illness and disease on individuals, couples, and families. Particular emphasis will be on the meaning individuals and families construct surrounding the illness experience. Learn about the interplay between physical, emotional, interpersonal, and spiritual domains of health and the variety of ways in which people experience illness. Highlights the ways in which medical family therapists can intervene and assist individuals, couples, and families who are coping with illness.

Description: Learn about integrated behavioral health care and collaborative care through interactive experiences and guest presenters. Increase awareness of the variety of ways in which collaborative health care is practiced.

Description: Relationships between parents and children from the developmental, contextual, and life-span perspectives. Theoretical, methodological, and applied implications of research.

Description: Advanced philosophy, procedures, and policies relating to early childhood education at the nursery school-kindergarten level and care of children outside the home.

Description: Analysis of major studies and current literature in Child Development/Early Childhood Education.

Description: Theoretical basis of child study and family analysis. Critical evaluation of methods and theories in child development, family relations, and human development from an integrative and holistic perspective.

Description: Synthesis of current and historical perspectives in theory and research on children's social development including multiple contexts for socialization/individuation.

Description: Overview of the field of infant mental health and in-depth analysis of research on infant mental health.

Description: Introduction to the intricacies of conducting research in countries other than the US. The course is divided into two sections. Section I prepares for successful global research by focusing on cultural competence and sensitivity, developing international relationships and collaborations, and global professional ethics. Section II will focus on applications of these concepts by introducing a variety of successful approaches and research methodologies through the international research of CEHS faculty. The emphasis will be on qualitative and quantitative research methods used across the multiple disciplines represented in the college.

Description: Examination of research methods used in family science, focusing on helping students to develop the knowledge and skill needed to evaluate and conduct research in which the family is the primary unit of analysis.

Description: Develop, execute and report on one or more projects on an individual or small group basis. Immersion in outcome-based scholarly activities with a faculty mentor. The interaction between research and practice.

Description: Investigation related to family and consumer sciences.

Description: Supervised marital and family therapy in university and community agencies.