HMS 430 - Family Policy

Credit(s): 3

This course focuses on the connections between public policies and families and the values that enter into policy debates and choices related to families. It provides conceptual frameworks that can be used to identify and understand some of the influences underlying policy choices affecting families and also frameworks for evaluating the consequences of these choices for families of diverse structures, socio-economic statuses, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Central to the course are the intersections between families and governments via policy outputs, and the roles that citizens and family professionals can play in improving them.