Financial Capabilities and Consumer Protections

3 units

This course will provide a skills-focused overview of financial capability and asset building policy and practice strategies, with a particular emphasis on consumer services and protections. Financial capability and asset-building practice include anti-poverty strategies, personal household finance, and financial access. Course content will cover how financial capability and asset building strategies are delivered in programs and services to families and communities. Case studies will be employed to help students understand the unique challenges that people of color and low-income families encounter on their journey to financial well-being, caused in part by credit discrimination and predatory lending.