FS 5003. Lifespan Human Development. Examination of
similarities and differences in conceptions of behavior throughout the lifespan;
emphasis on individual development in the context of the family; includes 15 hours
directed observation. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour a week. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5023. Family Sexuality. Concepts of developmental sexuality,
including sex education within the family. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5103. Families as Consumers. Family decision-making, values, and
goals; analysis of current consumer trends and issues impacting the family;
strategies for consumer education and advocacy. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 5113. Theories of Human Development. Focus on theoretical concepts
of development in the areas of cognition, language, personality growth, educational
theory, and social-cultural perspectives. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
FS 5123. Theories of the Family. Theoretical and functional approach
to the family; the nature and functions of the family; its relationship to
institutions, culture, and the individual. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5133. Family Law. Legal and ethical issues related to families;
principal problems as seen by Family Sciences professionals; emphasis on marriage,
divorce, custody, adoption, juvenile rights, malpractice, courtroom testimony,
competence, and wills and estates. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5143. Substance Abuse Counseling. Introduction to the assessment,
theories, and treatment of chemical dependency. Emphasis on effects of drug and
alcohol abuse on individuals and families, the recovery process, and basic
concepts and techniques of treatment and rehabilitation. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5153. Family Changes and Diversity. Comprehensive synthesis of current
research and theories related to cultural, economic, and structural variations in
families; examination of family resilience in response to change. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5163. Play Therapy. Philosophy and basic assumptions about functions
of play for children, major theories and approaches to play therapy; observation
and didactic work with children in play therapy. Three lecture hours and one and
one-half laboratory hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5173. Crisis Intervention Counseling. Crisis theory and intervention
strategies; special emphasis on suicidology, natural and man-made disasters, and
crisis management in the schools. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5183. Grief and Bereavement. Death and bereavement from a social,
psychological, biological, and physiological perspective; special types of loss
such as death of a child, miscarriage, and bereavement by suicide; therapeutic
interventions and strategies linked to the grieving process; ethical issues such
as euthanasia, DNR orders, and withdrawal of life support. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5221. Seminar in Family Sciences. Review of current research
strategies and findings in relevant literature. Variable topics. May be repeated
for five additional hours of credit. One lecture hour a week. Credit: One hour.
FS 5233. Communication in Marriage and Family. Personal growth and
professional development through the examination of effective communication in
marriage and family. Presentation of various theories and techniques of
communication to demonstrate diverse patterns of verbal and nonverbal communication
within the family unit. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5243. Adolescents in the Family. Understanding of the physical,
social, psychological, and behavioral characteristics of the adolescent in the
context of the family. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5253. Gender Role Development. Development of male and female roles
across the life cycle. Familial, parental, filial, and school influences.
Implications for teachers, parents, administrators, and counselors. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5303. Professional Orientation and Ethics in Counseling. Introduction
to the counseling profession and ethics. Examines the characteristics of the
effective counselor and the parameters of counseling in a variety of settings,
including schools and agencies. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5313. Counseling Theory and Practice. General survey of current
major theories of counseling and psychotherapy. Content includes historical
background, theory of personality, dynamics of client change process, therapeutic
techniques, and evaluation. Development of student’s own theory of counseling is
emphasized. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5323. Psychological Appraisal of the Individual. Nature and status
of psychological testing; in-depth investigation of characteristics and structure
of intelligence, achievement, and personality measuring techniques; actual
practice in selection, administration, and interpretation of standardized tests.
Prerequisite: FS 5303 or permission of instructor. Three lecture hours per week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 5363. Prepracticum. Experiential and practice of skills, qualities,
and decision-making capabilities integrated in the effective intentional counselor.
Practice of the techniques of counseling is performed under supervision.
Prerequisites: FS 5303, 5313, and permission of the instructor. Laboratory and
lecture hours to be determined. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5373. Group Counseling Procedures. A study of theories, techniques
and procedures in group counseling; development of skills to counsel small groups
and conduct developmental group guidance activities in educational settings.
Prerequisite: FS 5303, 5313, 5363, or permission of instructor. Credit: Three
hours.
FS 5383. Counseling Children and Adolescents. Current theories for
counseling children and adolescents; emphasis on practical experiences.
Prerequisites: Six graduate hours in counseling, psychology, or family sciences
and permission of instructor. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5393. School Guidance and Counseling Services. Various organizational
patterns, administrative practices, and functions of modern school counseling and
guidance programs; current counseling and assessment techniques; professional and
ethical aspects; current issues and trends in school counseling programs. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5423. Counseling Women. Detailed study of selected issues in
counseling women and current techniques of counseling women. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5443. Multicultural Counseling. Techniques for counseling
minorities. Special consideration is given to counseling needs of Black Americans
and Hispanic Americans. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5453. Counseling for Career Development. Theories, techniques, and
procedures for counseling with a focus on career and educational decisions. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5493. Community Mental Health Counseling. Examination of the
historical development, current status and functions of community mental health
agencies; role of the counselor and other professionals as well as community
related organizations. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5532. Practicum in Counseling/Family Therapy. Professional supervised
experience in counseling individuals, couples, and families; supervision of live
or videotaped sessions. Prerequisites for Family Therapy students: FS 5363, 5553,
5563, 5853, 5883, 5133, PSY 5513, and permission of instructor. Prerequisites
for Counseling students: FS 5003, 5303, 5313, 5363, 5373. Corequisite: FS 5542.
To be taken three consecutive semesters. One lecture and two laboratory hours a
week. Credit: Two hours.
FS 5533. Parenting Education. Examination of major objectives and the
underlying guidance principles in parent-child relations; study of programs and
agencies in parent education. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5542. Practicum in Counseling/Family Therapy: Clinical Experience.
Clinical experience to be taken concurrently with FS 5532. Prerequisites for
Family Therapy students: FS 5363, 5553, 5563, 5853, 5883, 5133, PSY 5513, and
permission of instructor. Prerequisites for Counseling students: FS 5003, 5303,
5313, 5363, 5373. Corequisite: FS 5532. To be taken three consecutive
semesters. One hundred clinical hours a semester. Credit: Two hours.
FS 5553. Principles of Marital Therapy. Child problems as an avenue to
marriage counseling, premarital counseling, relationship assessment, emotional and
relationship difficulties of the family. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5563. Family Therapy I. Basic techniques for family counseling;
theoretical basis for the techniques used; application of counseling principles to
family situations; child problems as an avenue to family counseling; the family as
a unit for counseling. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5573. Family Crises. Stresses on family systems with emphasis on
coping and adaptation strategies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5593. Child Development Curriculum in Context. Theory and content of
curriculum for the young child. Consideration of arts, science, music, literature,
social studies, and math concepts as they interface with developmental activities
and issues in child development. Emphasis on play environment. Three lecture and
one laboratory hour a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5603. Aging in Families and Society. Issues and implications of aging
for families and society. Focus on research and policy. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5613. Child Guidance. Analysis of child guidance and development and
research techniques. Emphasis on characteristics and sources of child guidance
practices in American culture. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5623. Occupations and Opportunities. Investigation of occupational
trends and theories of occupational choice. Emphasis on implications of career
choice for the economy, society, family, and the individual. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5643. The Development of Infants and Toddlers. Development of the
child during the first 24 months of life; special emphasis placed on the active
interchange that occurs between infants, toddlers, and the environments in which
they develop; programming designed to serve infants, toddlers, and their families
included. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5653. Program Planning and Development in Early Childhood. Program
needs; analysis techniques; organizing and working with advisory committees/boards;
involving participants; developing program goals and objectives, activities, and
evaluation techniques; program follow-up and evaluation. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5663. Leadership and Staff Development in Family Sciences Programs.
Examination of styles of leadership, communication skills, supervision and
motivation of staff, staff development activities and administration of organized
services and programs; emphasis on the facilitation of change. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5673. Administration and Management of Programs for Young Children.
Examination of principles of management and administration applied to early care
and education programs; emphasis on financial and human resources, legal concerns,
program evaluation, physical space, and equipment. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 5693. Research Methods in Family Sciences. Development of foundational
knowledge of family sciences research methodology; emphasis on skill in planning and
conducting family sciences research projects. Prerequisites: 15 hours of master’s
level coursework completed and FS 5221. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
FS 5713. Housing and Families. Interdisciplinary approach to current
conditions impacting family housing, including economic, social, psychological, and
aesthetic aspects. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5803. Time Management for Families. Principles of time management for
families; family time; impact of time on families. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 5823. Families and Public Policy. Application of the family perspective
to the policy process; research-based formulation and evaluation of public policy;
analysis of policy impact on families; advocacy roles of family sciences
professionals. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5833. Family Economics. Economic, sociological, psychological, and
cultural factors affecting consumer behavior. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5843. Teaching Family Sciences. Theories and techniques of program
planning, instruction, and evaluation in family sciences settings; emphasis on
needs assessment and curriculum development. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5853. Family Systems. A fundamental introduction to the systems
approach to intervention which integrates information regarding the marital,
sibling, and individual subsystems, as well as the family of origin and external
societal influences. Clinical diagnosis and treatment strategies are emphasized.
Three hours of classroom lecture. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5883. Family of Origin. Theoretical bases of family of origin work.
In-depth examination of the student’s own family history and review of concepts and
therapeutic techniques used in family of origin education and counseling. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5903. Special Topics. Organized study of Family Sciences subject
matter normally not included in other FS courses. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 5911. Individual Study. Intensive study of a problem of individual
or professional interest in family sciences. Credit: One hour.
FS 5913. Individual Study. Intensive study of a problem of individual
or professional interest in family sciences. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5933. Practicum in Family Sciences. Professional supervised experience
in working directly with children, families or consumers in selected business,
institution, or agency appropriate for Family Sciences. Job assignment based on
student interests, skills, and degree program. Individual conferences and hours
of work to be arranged. Twelve to 15 hours of work a week required. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5943. Special Projects in Family Sciences. Individual study in an
area of interest; selection and/or designing of instruments to use in collecting
data; review of current research studies related to individual problems. Credit:
Three hours.
FS 5961. Research in Family Sciences. Individual investigation of a
specific area in Family Sciences. Credit: One hour.
FS 5963. Research in Family Sciences. Individual investigation of a
specific area in Family Sciences. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5973. Professional Paper. Development and implementation of
individual project designed to meet unresolved problem in an area of interest.
Presentation and defense of project. Credit: Three hours. (Limit six hours of
credit.)
FS 5983. Thesis. Credit: Three hours.
FS 5993. Thesis. Prerequisite: FS 5983. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6003. Advanced Study of the Lifespan. The developmental process as
it occurs during the life cycle and implications for the family; relationship of
the developmental process to relevant issues in family sciences. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6221. Seminar in Family Sciences. Advanced topics in family sciences
research strategies. Variable topics. May be repeated for four additional hours
of credit. One lecture hour a week. Credit: One hour.
FS 6233. Issues in Professional Development. An examination of the major
issues for professionals in family therapy; emphasis on legal and ethical standards,
professional identity, and private practice issues; examination of the
legal/therapeutic interface as it directly impacts practice. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6243. Strategies for Intervention in Family Therapy. Examination of
major strategies for intervening to change interaction within families and other
intimate relationships; presentation of change techniques from a systematic
perspective; emphasis on current intervention strategies that are ecological in
nature. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 6253. Supervision in Family Therapy. Techniques in family therapy
supervision, including both didactic and interactional components. Prerequisite:
Permission of instructor. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6403. Theory Building in Family Sciences. Foundational elements of
theories and models of theories in family sciences; the relationship between
theories, models, concepts, and the design and implementation of research in family
sciences. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6413. Current Research and Issues in Family Sciences. Current research
and issues in family sciences; emphasis on conceptual and theoretical frameworks
in guiding research design and critical analysis of recent literature in family
sciences. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6423. Readings in Family Sciences. Critical review of current and
classical research and other literature concerned with issues and concepts of family
sciences. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6433. Grants Writing in Family Sciences. Study of available funding
sources for human services programs; developing skills for requesting funds for an
organization or agency; review and evaluation procedures. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6513. Language and Cognitive Development in Young Children. Origins
and development of language; cognition as a function of language, stages, and
environment; interrelationships of language and cognitive development. Three lecture
hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6532. Practicum in Family Therapy. Professional supervised experience
in counseling couples and families; supervision of live or videotaped sessions.
Prerequisites: FS 5553, 5563, 5853, 5883, 5133, PSY 5513, and permission of
instructor. Corequisite: FS 6542. To be taken four consecutive semesters. One
lecture hour and two laboratory hours a week. Credit: Two hours.
FS 6542. Practicum in Family Therapy: Clinical Experience. Clinical
experience to be taken concurrently with FS 6532. Prerequisites: FS 5553, 5563,
5853, 5883, 5133, PSY 5513, and permission of instructor. Corequisite: FS 6532. To
be taken four consecutive semesters. One hundred twenty-five clinical hours a
semester. Credit: Two hours.
FS 6563. Family Therapy II. Continuation of family therapy theory
development; overview of systematic therapies including MRI, Milan, reflecting
team, contextual, language systems, and brief therapy models. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6593. Practicum in Family Sciences. Professional supervised
experience in working directly with children, families, or consumers in selected
business, institution, or agency appropriate for Family Sciences. Job assignment
based on student interests, skills, and degree program. Individual conferences and
work hours to be arranged. Twelve to 15 hours of work a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6693. Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Family Sciences.
Advanced quantitative research design and its application in family sciences;
analysis and evaluation of quantitative research; data interpretation; emphasis on
hypotheses, variables, ethics, instrumentation, sampling, reliability, and validity;
preparation of a quantitative research plan. Prerequisites: A master’s level
research methods course and a graduate-level statistics course. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6793. Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Family Science. Advanced
qualitative research design and its application in family sciences; analysis and
evaluation of qualitative research; data collection and interpretation; emphasis on
research questions and ethical issues; preparation of a qualitative research plan.
Prerequisites: A master’s level research methods course. Three lecture hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
FS 6863. Family Financial Counseling. Examination of relationship between
financial needs and family dynamics. Develop skills in assisting families with
financial problems through family education and counseling. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6903. Special Topics. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6911. Individual Study. Intensive study of a problem of individual
or professional interest in family sciences. Credit: One hour.
FS 6913. Individual Study. Intensive study of a problem of individual
or professional interest in family sciences. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6921. Research in Family Sciences. Individual investigation of a
specific area in family sciences. Credit: One hour.
FS 6923. Research in Family Sciences. Individual investigation of a
specific area in family sciences. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6941. Resources in Family Sciences. Individual study; collection of
data in an individual situation, school, and/or community for a terminal problem
in one semester or for a research study to be continued. Credit: One hour.
FS 6943. Resources in Family Sciences. Individual study; collection of
data in an individual situation, school, and/or community for a terminal problem
in one semester or for a research study to be continued. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6983. Dissertation. Credit: Three hours.
FS 6993. Dissertation. Prerequisite: FS 6983. Credit: Three hours.
