Learn how to guide individuals and families through financial challenges and empower them to achieve stability. In this course, you will develop financial counseling techniques that address everyday money issues, from debt management to financial goal-setting. You?ll also investigate the complex social, psychological, and systemic factors that influence financial behavior. In addition, you?ll become familiar with local and national resources that provide assistance to those facing financial difficulties. This course includes an optional service-learning component where students will work throughout the semester with local non-profit organizations focused on financial literacy, financial counseling, financial curriculum development, and/or researching financial resources. This course will require students to produce video recordings. At minimum, students will need recording equipment that captures both video and audio. The resulting file will need to be uploaded to the internet. Laptops with webcams and smartphones with video capabilities should be sufficient for this purpose. Equipment and training are available from the Library's SMART Learning Commons.
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