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Family Financial Planning Graduate Programs

Graduate Certificate Course Information

Financial Counseling^

University:
North Dakota State University North Dakota State University logo
Course Number:
HDFS 677
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $610 per credit
Start/End Dates:
January 13, 2025 - May 16, 2025

Overview

Course Description

This course is about theory and research regarding the interactive process between clients and practitioners, including communication techniques, motivation, and esteem building; the counseling environment; ethics and methods of data intake; verification and analysis. Other course topics include legal issues, compensation, uses of technology to identify resources, information management, and current or emerging issues.

Contacts

Instructor

Jim Deal
Office: 701-231-7568
Fax: 701-231-9645
jim.deal@ndsu.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

Financial Counseling: A Strategic Approach
Pulvino & Pulvino
Edition: 2010, 3rd ed.
ISBN: 0-615-35209-1
Publisher: Instructional Enterprises

Surviving Debt
National Consumer Law Center
Edition: 2024
ISBN: 9781602482104
Publisher: National Consumer Law Center

Course Access

 
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.

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University Contact

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