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Family & Community Services Graduate Programs

Graduate Certificate Course Information

Resilience in Families

University:
University of Missouri University of Missouri logo
Course Number:
HDFS 7600
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $610 per credit
Start/End Dates:
January 21, 2025 - May 16, 2025

Overview

Course Description

In this course, students explore the evolution of a resilience approach to the study of families and human development across the life cycle.

Contacts

Instructor

Ashlie Lester
Office: 573-882-1301
Fax: 573-884-5550
lestera@missouri.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.

Directory
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 IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

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Textbooks

Strengthening Family Resilience
Froma Walsh
Edition: 3rd
ISBN: 978-1462529865
Publisher: Guilford Press

Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development
Ann S. Masten
ISBN: 978-1462523719
Publisher: Guilford Press

Course Access

Approximately two weeks before the first day of class at MU, the MU Campus Coordinator will email course access information to students for courses taught by MU. Using the instructions and information in the email, students will be able to activate their Canvas at Mizzou and MU email account. Instructors may restrict course access until the first day of class.

Students needing assistance with setting up their account should contact the MU IT Help Desk at 573-882-5000. If students haven’t received the course access information email, please reach out to the MU Campus Coordinator at mumzonidea@umsystem.edu.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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University Contact

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