Students in consumer affairs will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills to make financial decisions appropriate for various stages of life cycle.
- Explain significant events in the history of the consumer movement.
- Describe consumer rights and responsibilities.
- Discuss the proxemic relationships of man with cultural contexts as related to urban issues.
- Use and evaluate selected sources of financial information appropriate for financial decision making.
- Identify laws, regulations, procedures, and appropriate agencies and organizations necessary to obtain consumer satisfaction in the resolution of consumer problems.
- Evaluate the effect of consumer laws, regulations and procedures on business, government, and the consumer.
- Explain the relationship between government, business, and the consumer in identifying and dealing with the consumer issues.
- Construct a plan for lifelong financial wellness.
- Evaluate the ways in which economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of housing impact the well-being of individuals and families.
- Describe personal financial concepts that include compounding, present value, future value, taxation, budgeting, investments, and estate planning.
- Evaluate specialized resources both public and private to aid the aging in specific activities available, employment, and personal financial management.
- Identify the means for keeping abreast of developments in consumer protection.
- Explain personal values and cultural norms related to space that shape individual and family choices of housing in the United States.
- Understand the dynamic relationship between individual investment choices and situational factors such as the economy, inflation, life cycle stage, and traits of the specific individual as investor,
- Develop skills and assemble resources related to assisting families in their financial management.