FSOS2106

This course offers an examination of family resource management and wealth-building, centering ways that dimensions of race, power, and systemic inequities affect economic resource access, acquisition, use, and accumulation in the United States (U.S.). Through critically examining historical and contemporary family realities related to economic resources, wealth, and inequality, learners will gain an understanding of complexities and systemic barriers that impact families from diverse social identities and backgrounds. By challenging traditional notions of resource management rooted in a Western, individualist, and capitalist framework, learners will apply human ecology, historical, and social justice lenses to develop critical consciousness that will enable them to interrogate ways that systemic inequities contribute to historical and contemporary socioeconomic disparities among U.S. families. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to engage in informed discussions on the subject matter and formulate solutions that may address contemporary resource challenges that families face as they strive to meet their needs and achieve quality of life.