First-Year Experience

BUS/ACT 286: Corporate Experience (3)* FIN 230: Personal Finance (3) FIN 304: Risk Management (3) FIN 379: Real Estate (3) FIN 385: Portfolio Management (1) (May be repeated for a maximum of 3 hours in this category)* FIN 499: Study Abroad (3)*

Experiential Course (3 hours)

ACT/BUS/FIN 476: Professional Internship in Finance (3) Support Courses (9-10 hours)

MAT 110: College Algebra (3) OR MAT 111 Applied College Algebra (3) OR MAT 115: Precalculus (3) OR MAT 120: Applied Calculus (4).

MAT 205: Elementary Statistics (3)

MIS 225: Computer Applications in Business (3)

MINOR IN FINANCE (18 HOURS) The Finance minor supplements many undergraduate majors and enhances the career opportunities for students interested in pursuing a financial management dimension in their chosen field.

Core Courses (9 hours)

ACT 125: Principles of Accounting I (3)

ACT 126: Principles of Accounting II (3)

FIN 311: Finance (3) (this course requires a prerequisite of ECO 201 and MIS 225 or consent of instructor)

Select 9 hours from the following courses:

FIN 304: Risk Management (3)

FIN 362: Corporate Financial Management (3)

FIN 379: Real Estate (3)

FIN 385: Portfolio Management (1) (May be repeated for a maximum of 3 hours)

FIN/ECO 403: Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy (3)

FIN 407: Investments (3)

FIN 410: International Corporate Finance (3)

FINANCE COURSES

FIN 230: Personal Finance (3)

An introductory course to personal financial decision making with a life-cycle approach to financial planning. The course will help students develop a financial plan for their own future in areas such as money management, purchasing decisions, and investment decisions. Some of the topics that will be covered include constructing and interpreting their own personal financial statements and budgets, investment options, credit management, insurance, and how taxation affects their personal finances. FIN 276: Exploratory Internship in Finance (1–3) Experience in the workplace designed to help the student make career choices in finance. Prerequisites: consent of advisor and Internship Coordinator. ExL

FIN 289: Selected Topics in Finance Selected issues not covered in other courses. May involve field trips and/or travel. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (1–3)

FIN 299: Study Abroad Students will study a variety of topics by combining college classroom activities with travel. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Offered as needed. (3)

FIN 304: Risk Management (3) A study of risk management for the firm, the individual, and as a career. Included is a study of the basic principles of the insurance industry, loss exposure, risk management techniques other than insurance, and tort concepts. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Offered during the fall 3-week term of evennumbered years. ExL

FIN 311: Finance (3)

Survey of financial decision making within a business enterprise. Emphasis is placed upon basic quantitative techniques utilized in financial decision making, such as valuing streams of cash flows, planning the capital structure, managing working capital, estimating cash flows of potential investments, and selecting appropriate investments. Prerequisites: ACT 125, ECO 201, MIS 225, and junior standing or consent of instructor. Offered every semester.

FIN 362: Corporate Financial Management (3) Methods, policies, markets, and institutions involved in financing the business enterprise. Capital budgeting, theory of capital structures, and financial decision making are discussed. Quantitative techniques solved through Excel or financial calculators are stressed in this course. Prerequisite: FIN 311 and junior standing or consent of instructor. Offered every semester.

FIN 379: Real Estate (3) Principles, practices, and legal environment of the real estate industry, ownership, contracts, conveyances, mortgages, leases, liens, and titles will be studied. Real estate marketing and property management are also studied. Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Offered during the fall 3-week term of oddnumbered years.

FIN 385: Portfolio Management Utilizes a hands-on approach to investing with appropriate research and decision-making tools. The participants learn about investing and portfolio management by investing a portion of the College’s endowment. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours. Offered every semester. (1)

Fin/Eco 403: Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Payment and banking system, financial markets, financial instruments, financial institutions, financial regulations, Federal Reserve System, and monetary (3) policy. Prerequisites: ECO 201 and ECO 202. Offered fall of odd-numbered years.

FIN 407: Investments (3)

Financial market structure, business financing alternatives, financial instruments, and financial planning for the firm. Development and management of a personal investment portfolio is studied. Students will experience the thrill and the agony of participating in financial markets through investment simulations. Prerequisites: FIN 311 and junior standing or consent of instructor. Offered spring of odd-numbered years. ExL

FIN/ECO 410: International Corporate Finance (3) Economic trade theory, exchange-rate determination, balance of payments, global financial markets and institutions, risk management, global capital budgeting, and multinational cost of capital. Prerequisites: ECO 201 and ECO 202. Offered spring of even-numbered years.

FIN 476: Professional Internship in Finance (1–6) (CE) An orientation to finance in the business enterprise or accounting firm is provided. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, consent of Internship Coordinator and major advisor.

FIN 480: Independent Study (3)

Individual or group projects in finance under the supervision of the instructor. Prerequisite: consent of instructor, advisor, division chairperson, and VPAA/ Provost.

FIN 489: Selected Topics in Finance Selected issues not covered in other courses. May involve field trips and/or travel. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (1–3)

FIN 498: Global Studies (1)

This course will focus on materials that will enable students to fully engage with the academic content of the immediately following 3-week travel course. This course will also enable travel course leaders to monitor passports, visas, payments, and application document completion. Offered each 12-week session in conjunction with an international travel class being offered in the 3-week session.

FIN 499: Study Abroad Students will study a variety of topics by combining college classroom activities with travel abroad. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (3)