Learning Outcomes: 1. Define key financial terms and concepts
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Recognize the impact of financial decisions on personal well-being
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply critical thinking to financial decision-making and implement strategies for healthy money management
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explore and analyze investment options and retirement savings
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between hedonic and eudaimonic happiness, prosocial spending and pure materialism and the pros and cons of the intersection of faith and happiness
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Theorize via thought-provoking discussions about the quest to “buy happiness” in modern America
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Contrast advice literature with positive and social psychology research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Evaluate through the research whether one can ‘get happier’ through consumer culture
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Critique diverse materials including popular and academic readings
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the basic steps and principles of the financial planning process.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Implement learned techniques for creating and managing a personal budget, tailored to individual financial goals and circumstances.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the impact of economic factors on personal finances, fostering informed decision making in real-world scenarios.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Evaluate various investment options and strategies, considering risk tolerance, time horizon, and financial objectives.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing financial tools and technologies for effective money management.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Consider the various approaches to gathering information and methods for conducting consumer research
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Reflect on appropriate data analysis techniques that address problems and inform opportunities
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop best practices for crafting messages and stories that inspire audiences to take action
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify strengths, skills and attributes needed to be successful within the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine current issues and future shifts in the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Define the major and how it relates to Human Ecology and our society
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Connect potential careers in the industry to the major
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify strengths, skills and certifications necessary to be successful within the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Examine current issues and areas of investigation in the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Connect potential careers in the industry to the major
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Anticipate consumer decisions and likely outcomes given a particular market structure;
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply Human Ecology Centered Design Thinking to consumer financial services and the alignment of consumer decisions to consumer preferences.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Define opportunities or unmet needs as design challenges;
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe the financial services available to consumers today and how those came to be;
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Propose effective solutions for those challenges;
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define the functions and relationships required to implement retail activity
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe where retail has been, is today and where it is headed with an explanation of the drivers of that evolution
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Anticipate the possible and likely outcomes of change in retail strategy or competitive set for retailers & for consumers
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically assess research and media on family dynamics and household finance
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Discuss the social contexts that influence family finances and financial behavior
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Translate research on family finance to a general audience through the development of your professional writing skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the financial planning process, techniques and terminology
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain time value of money and its importance
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Calculate and solve for future values, present values, rate of return, net present value, and net future value
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply time value of money to help consumers achieve their financial goals
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop recommendations and evaluate decision making regarding budgets, assets, consumer credit, investments, insurance, retirement, and estate planning
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop the knowledge and tools to carry out meaningful data analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Build analytical abilities
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Establish a process for translating analysis into effective stories and presentations
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between financial coaching and other financial approaches, including counseling, planning, and financial education.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain financial capability and financial competencies as components of financial well-being, and how to address these components through financial coaching.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify values and biases affecting financial decision-making for themselves and a diverse range of audiences.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize theories of behavior change and how these theories apply to financial coaching.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Understand and demonstrate the financial coaching framework and coaching skills, including effective communication techniques and theories of change.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Consider the various perspectives on consumer behavior across marketing, economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, along with the everyday patterns in our lives.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Reflect on the approaches used to understand and influence consumer desires and actions in our daily lives.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop an understanding of consumer behavior that would benefit organizations and help improve overall consumer welfare.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Understand the role of culture that is infused with meaning in consumption practices that extend beyond practical or economic factors.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Apply advanced theoretical frameworks and research methodologies to critically analyze consumer behavior phenomena.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Come away able to think beyond binary models and think about sustainability in terms of cycles or circular models
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Have the tools to connect historical narratives to contemporary ones,seeming how societal values set in motion the current relationship american society has to the environment
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Have a greater ability to be an informed consumer, conscious of the ways individual choices have effects on the environment and other societies
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Study environmental issues through a lens of environmental justice, understanding that certain communities are affected at disproportionate rates by all aspects of normative consumer life
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain the challenges students face with money while in college.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe why peer educating is an effective strategy to help undergraduate students learn about personal finance issues for their lives in college and beyond.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Assess personal strengths, challenges and skills as it relates to the financial peer educator role.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate how to create a safe, positive learning environment for students enrolled in Financial Life Skills courses.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Create and present a financial learning experience for a specific student population.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Ability to consider and evaluate how children, adults, and families affect and are affected by policies, media, or other social institutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate applied professional skills by practicing working effectively with others.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate professional speaking skills through giving an oral presentation.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate scientific reasoning/critical thinking skills through engaging in critical evaluation of research articles, websites, programs, or policies.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Knowledge of family and community diversity.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Frame consumer challenges discovered through situation analysis and empathy building.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Generate ideas to address consumer challenges to align with strategy.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Articulate a strategic plan guided by goals, objectives and plans with supporting evidence.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Design and apply a strong implementation plan with consideration for adjustments.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Create and execute an evaluation plan for the implemented strategy.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Make strategic recommendations for future actions.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Create a financial analysis (or model) of the forecasted results from the implementation of the strategic plan.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore how experiential marketing has evolved over time and its impact on consumer behavior in the marketplace today and in the future.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Analyze and apply practical strategies for implementing Customer Experience (CX) initiatives in the marketplace and explore methods to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of CX efforts.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the cultural strategy framework and applications of Cultural Innovation Theory.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Employ research methods and tools for understanding consumers and designing meaningful customer experiences via empathy mapping and customer journey mapping.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand and define the different roles in merchandising, product development and manufacturing to produce products at the right time, right place, right price, right quantity, and right appeal for customers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Utilize the retail method of inventory to calculate book and physical inventory and explain the cause and effects of overages and shortages
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Demonstrate the mathematical calculations and processes frequently used in the retail and manufacturing industry to evaluate inventory performance
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply negotiation alternatives between retailers and manufactures
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Define and calculate measurements of inventory mark-ups & profit indicators
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Differentiate inventory pricing and markdowns strategies
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Define and calculate measurements of inventory rate of sale
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Define and calculate the components of a retailer’s merchandise financial plan and forecast based upon market influences
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Apply methods for analyzing and correcting problems related to retail assortments, purchases, inventory and sales
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

10. Prepare, modify and evaluate merchandising planning methods used to create seasonal inventory budgets
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

11. Evaluate the causes and effects of retail pricing adjustments
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

12. Evaluate profit and loss statements of retailers and manufacturers and impact of performances
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

13. Synthesis speed and profit to create a merchandise plan and forecast along with a full financial plan based upon a set of provided data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop relationships with co-workers and supervisors working as a team member through varied experiences while improving interpersonal relationships
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Enhance knowledge of the industry’s systems and procedures, including adapting to changing market trends and technology
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Reinforce educational and career goals while preparing for transition from student to a professional in the workplace
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply academic knowledge to the business / personal finance / consumer affairs work environment.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop analytical skills and problem-solving competencies related to the field of personal finance
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Develop professional competencies in written and oral communication.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Expand awareness of career opportunities and establish professional contacts
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Provide professional work experience regarding the following (but not exclusive to): financial planning, investment management, insurance, banking, sales management, human resource management, consumer mediation, wealth management, business finance, etc.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop relationships with co-workers and supervisors working as a team member through varied experiences while improving interpersonal relationships
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Enhance knowledge of the industry’s systems and procedures, including adapting to changing market trends and technology
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explore career opportunities within a company/organization and industry through real-world situations
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Gain a deeper understanding of how consumerism can be enhanced through retail functions and consumer behavior analytics
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Reinforce educational and career goals while preparing for transition from student to a professional in the workplace.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze personal financial situations, evaluating clients’ objectives, needs, and values to develop an appropriate strategy within their estate plan
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply the CFP Board Financial Planning Practice Standards to the financial planning process as it applies to estate planning
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Collect all necessary and relevant qualitative and quantitative information required to develop an estate plan
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the content found within the Estate Planning for Financial Planners curriculum and effectively apply and integrate this information in the formulation of an estate plan for sample clients
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to problems found with client situations
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Effectively communicate the estate plan, including information based on research, peer, colleague or simulated client interaction and/or results emanating from synthesis of material
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the impact of economic, political, and regulatory issues with regard to the estate plan
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and evaluate assumptions used to analyze retirement needs including retirement cash flow, assets and liabilities, investment return, retirement income sources and Social Security.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe characteristics of the various types of defined benefit, defined contribution and individual retirement accounts.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Illustrate the role of financial mindset and values when developing a retirement plan.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Calculate appropriate savings plan to meeting funding needs prior to retirement and withdrawal strategy for retirement.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Develop recommendations and evaluate the decision-making regarding retirement planning.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze personal financial situations, evaluating clients’ objectives, needs, and values to develop an appropriate strategy within their personal risk management plan
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply the CFP Board Financial Planning Practice Standards to the financial planning process as it applies to personal risk management planning
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Collect all necessary and relevant qualitative and quantitative information required to develop a personal risk management plan
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the content found within the Household Risk Management curriculum and effectively apply and integrate this information in the formulation of personal risk management plan for sample clients
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to problems found with client situations
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Effectively communicate the personal risk management plan, including information based on research, peer, colleague or simulated client interaction and/or results emanating from synthesis of material
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the impact of economic, political, and regulatory issues with regard to the personal risk management plan
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze personal financial situations, evaluate clients' objectives, needs, and values to develop an appropriate strategy within the financial plan
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply the CFP Board Financial Planning Practice Standards to the financial planning process
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Collect all necessary and relevant qualitative and quantitative information required to develop a financial plan
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the content found within the Financial Planning curriculum and effectively apply and integrate this information in the formulation of a financial plan
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Demonstrate logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to a specific problem
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Effectively communicate the financial plan, both orally and in writing, including information based on research, peer, colleague or simulated client interaction and/or results emanating from synthesis of material
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the impact of economic, political, and regulatory issues with regard to the financial plan
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the theory of household formation and dissolution, labor supply, and child investment from a utility maximizing framework
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate how households make consumption and investment decisions across time using a two period model
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify and critically analyze how public policy affects families, particularly policies focused on children, the labor market, and marriage
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Ascertain differences in data structures and key statistical properties to understand types of quantitative data used in consumer science research
Audience: Graduate

2. Master technical proficiency in linear regression and statistical inference by applying these techniques to real-world consumer data
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically assess estimates derived from linear models commonly used in consumer research by evaluating the accuracy, precision, and relevance of model estimates to draw meaningful insights from empirical analyses
Audience: Graduate

4. Discern the suitability of model assumptions for different empirical challenges in consumer research by evaluating assumptions and selecting and modifying models to best fit the specific characteristics of the data and the nature of the research question
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the contributions and identify opportunities to expand current research on household finance
Audience: Graduate

2. Synthesize and translate information from academic research for varied academic and non-academic audiences
Audience: Graduate

3. Construct a research project that applies your understanding of household finance and well-being based on basic econometric analyses
Audience: Graduate

4. Understand the various professional designations related to financial coaching, counseling, and planning
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize and describe common methodological approaches used for causal inference in empirical consumer research.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify the underlying identification assumptions behind common methodological approaches and describe the key considerations for assessing the validity of these assumptions.
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically evaluate and discuss the methodological approaches in recent empirical consumer research, including being able to identify potential limitations to being able to draw causal inferences from the findings.
Audience: Graduate

4. Interpret and synthize findings from empirical consumer research, enabling them to communicate research outcomes effectively and with the appropriate caveats to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Audience: Graduate

5. Apply modern econometric techniques to analyze observational data in the context of consumer research, with a particular focus on causal inference.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss health insurance as both a consumer financial product that contributes to consumer financial health and a means of payment for health care that affects consumer financial health
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain how financial well-being affects health and the demand for health care
Audience: Graduate

3. Explain how health, health insurance, and health care produce financial health
Audience: Graduate

4. Propose research questions that explore the interrelationships between health, health insurance, the use of health care, and financial health
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize how markets, consumer behavior, and family dynamics are both influenced by and shape social structures and systems within their community
Audience: Graduate

2. Dissect the networked systems that influence neighborhood construction as well as individual, family, and community well-being
Audience: Graduate

3. Differentiate the role of key stakeholders including policymakers, business, nonprofit sector, and individuals in co-creating community
Audience: Graduate

4. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of quantitative techniques (e.g., generating indices of segregation, employing spatial data visualization and regression techniques)
Audience: Graduate

5. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of qualitative techniques (e.g., in-depth interviews, focus groups, photo elicitation, text analysis)
Audience: Graduate

6. Incorporate community processes and contexts to develop and analyze an empirical research proposal examining the socio-spatial relationships between people and systems within a community
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critically analyze the primary measures of consumer well-being
Audience: Graduate

2. Explore how measures of consumer well-being are constructed
Audience: Graduate

3. Compare and contrast measures of well-being
Audience: Graduate

4. Explain how consumer well-being measures are used in research and policy
Audience: Graduate

5. Review major literature on each of these measures
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe some of the ways in which individuals make decisions and exhibit behavior that systematically deviates from the predictions of traditional economic models of rational actors
Audience: Graduate

2. Compare and contrast traditional policy tools and levers with interventions informed by behavioral economics and assess their relative efficacy in addressing a potential policy problem
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically evaluate and discuss policy solutions in recent empirical policy-focused consumer research, including being able to assess the extent to which given solutions may or may not extrapolate to other domains and populations
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify policy issues and generate potential solutions that apply insights from behavioral economics to policy design, drawing on both existing research and behavioral economic theories
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop abilities to identify research problems and to develop conceptual and empirical solutions to problems
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop critical thinking and creative problem solving skills
Audience: Graduate

3. Enhance appreciation of the interdisciplinary and varied methodological orientations of consumer research
Audience: Graduate

4. Become familiar with the primary research streams and knowledge priorities
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop an understanding of the major conceptual and empirical contributions to the field of consumer research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop research questions through presenting original research and/or critiquing the research questions of others
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop skills in creating and delivering research presentations through presentation and/or critiquing the presentations of others
Audience: Graduate

3. Receive and/or respond to formal and informal feedback from peers and faculty
Audience: Graduate

4. Create materials for the job market and professional skills through course assignments
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Communicate the substance of a real-world policy problem(s) using relevant scholarly studies and practical applications
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate critical thinking skills by retrieving and examining literature
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses, identify knowledge gaps, strengths and weaknesses in existing literature, synthesize knowledge, and develop conclusions
Audience: Graduate