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Apr 19, 2024
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CFS 4640 - Children, Families, and Poverty
Examines children, adults, and families in poverty with attention focused on the causes and consequences of poverty. Included will be an investigation of policies and programs for children, adults and families in poverty. Additionally, students are required to complete a 10- hour community service requirement at an agency/organization that primarily serves low income children, adults, and/or families.
Requisites: C or better in (CFS 2700 and 2710) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will apply the influence of context (e.g., income, wealth, communities, policies, programs, paid and unpaid work) to their understanding of family poverty.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of U.S. policies and programs designed for families with limited economic resources.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical and current attitudes about individuals and families who struggle economically.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the barriers faced by families in poverty.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of poverty for women, men, and children.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding the causes of poverty.
- Students will demonstrate how characteristics of individuals and families (structure, race/ethnicity, SES background), sociohistorical time, and place interact to increase or decrease the likelihood of poverty.
- Students will work with low income children, adults and/or families through service-learning in a community service organization or educational program.
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