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PE: Varsity Sports for Men (PEVM)
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PEVM 118 - Rugby
Description:
Two or three hours activity plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated up to 15 credits.
Credits: (1)
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PE: Varsity Sports for Women (PEVW)
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PEVW 110 - Basketball
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 111 - Cross Country
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 116 - Track and Field
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 117 - Volleyball
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 118 - Soccer
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 119 - Softball
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 120 - Cheerleading
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1)
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PEVW 121 - Rugby
Description:
Two or three hours activity per day plus all regularly scheduled meetings and game sessions. May be repeated up to 15 credits.
Credits: (1)
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Personal Financial Planning (PFP)
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PFP 310 - Introduction to the Financial Planning Profession
Description:
Introduces the processes appropriate for entry into the personal financial planning (PFP) profession. Provides an overview of the skills and knowledge sets required to be a PFP professional including an outline of business models and practice management issues within the industry.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: ECON 130 or MATH 130.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Explain the Fitness Standards for Professional Financial Planner Candidates and Registrants
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Explain the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility for CFP Professionals
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Describe the Rules of Conduct as they relate to being a financial planning professional
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Describe the Practice Standards employed during the financial planning process
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Compare secondary financial market institutions and associated regulators
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Explain investment advisor regulation and financial planning aspects of the ERISA
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Explain the relevant licensing, reporting and compliance issues affecting a financial planning firm.
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Describe consumer laws that impact financial planning
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Discuss fiduciary standard and its importance to financial planning
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Diagram the personal financial planning process
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Prepare statements of financial positions and cash flows
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Graded Assignment
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Evaluate financial statements using ratios and growth rates
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Graded Assignment
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Analyze cash inflows and outflows related to a current financial needs and long-term financial goals
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Graded Assignment
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Explain the role of liquid assets and emergency funds
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Graded Assignment
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Calculate savings required to meet financial goals
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Prepare a debt management plan
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Graded Assignment
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Compute present value and future value of different financial instruments
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Apply NPV and IRR and to a financial planning problem
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Propose investment alternatives consistent with an individual’s risk propensity, attitudes, capacity, knowledge, and needs.
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Discuss how values may affect an individual’s financial goals
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In-class assignment
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Explain counseling theory in relation to financial planning practice.
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Demonstrate how financial planners can develop a relationship of honesty and trust in client interaction
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In-class assignment
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Demonstrate the application of active listening skills when communicating with clients.
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In-class assignment
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Choose appropriate counseling and communication techniques
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Prepare a debt prioritization plan
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Explain how different management approaches will ikmpact the credit scores
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Propose a plan to maximize a case credit score over the short and long run.
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Graded Assignment
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Calculate the dollar amount needed to meet education goals
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Compare the tax implications of strategies used for saving for higher education expenses
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Recommend appropriate investment alternatives for an education savings account
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Evaluate qualifications for various types of financial aid as part of an education plan.
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Graded Assignment
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Determine what tax credits may be utilized to reduce the cost of education
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Written Examination or Quiz
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Evaluate the availability of and qualifications for financing education expenses as part of an education plan.
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Written Examination or Quiz
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PFP 440 - Estate Planning
Description:
Overview of gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxation, including financial and estate planning applications. Applies gift, estate, and generation skipping transfer taxation rules to personal financial planning scenarios. Studies financial regulations and taxation policy.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: (a grade of C or higher in FIN 370 and PFP 310 and ACCT 303 and admission to a College of Business major) AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25.
Credits: (4)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Compare and contrast the most common types of tilting property
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Describe the probate process, its advantages, disadvantages, and costs.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Explain the alternative methods of transferring property at death
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Propose the most appropriate property transfer mechanism for a client’s situation
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Case preparation
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Diagram the components and relationships among estate planning documents used to facilitate the transfer of one’s assets.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Describe the roles of the parties used in estate planning including executor, trustee, power of attorney, beneficiary(ies), heirs, and guardians
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Examination questions
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Select the appropriate estate planning tools to meet a specific case client’s coals and objectives
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Prepare a cash flow plan for maintaining a client’s estate from date of death to final distribution including payment of tax liabilities.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Compare the application of the different types of trusts including revocable, irrevocable, living, and testamentary trusts
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Compare and contrast the components of charitable and non-charitable trusts
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Diagnose the income tax consequences of a cast trust including deductions, exemptions, credits, tax rates, and penalties for non-compliance
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Evaluate the income tax implications of trust income and distributions to beneficiaries
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Distinguish the relationship between the marital deduction and the qualified interest trust
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Choose the appropriate business transfer techniques based on specific scenarios
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Compare the forms of postmortem financial planning.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Assess the impact of divorce and/or remarriage on an estate plan.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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PFP 450 - Insurance and Risk Management
Description:
Examines risk management and insurance planning for individual clients as well as employers of small corporations. Teaches the development of risk management and insurance plans with economic and behavioral theory.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: (a grade of C or higher in FIN 370 and PFP 310 and admission to a College of Business major) AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25.
Credits: (4)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Explain the risk management process
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Compare and contrast the primary risk management techniques available to clients
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Explain how insurers use risk pooling to pay for losses incurred by policyholders
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Distinguish among the factors that affect policyholder premiums
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Differentiate between group and individual health insurance alternatives, including fee for service and managed care plans.
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Describe alternatives for acquiring health coverage including COBRA and Medicaid
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Distinguish between short-term and long-term disability plans.
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Formulate a plan for meeting individual disability income needs
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Compute the tax implications of paying for and receiving disability benefits
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Propose a long-term care insurance plan based on needs, financial resources, policy coverage, and cost
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Q
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Compare and contrast annuities (fixed and variable) with other investment alternatives.
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Assess the most appropriate life insurance coverage to match a client’s circumstances
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Estimate a client’s insurance needs using alternative approaches
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Prepare an insurance needs analysis for a case client
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Recommend appropriate insurance products, given a case client’s circumstances
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Diagram the components of property and casualty insurance
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Differentiate among the basic homeowners insurance (HO) forms and features
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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Evaluate the components of automobile insurance for potential property damage or liability exposures.
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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PFP 460 - Retirement Planning
Description:
Examines the topics of retirement planning and retirement plans from both employer and individual client settings. Uses a case study approach to apply and integrate the material. Emphasizes the evaluation of financial alternatives.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: (a grade of C or higher in FIN 370 and PFP 310 and ACCT 303 and admission to a College of Business major) AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25).
Credits: (4)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Describe common assumptions used in analyzing retirement
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Examination questions and assignments
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Design a savings plan to maximize the probability of achieving a case client’s goals and mitigating longevity risk
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Case preparation
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Calculate the retirement funding and income distribution plans under varied scenarios
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Case preparation and assignments
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Explain work-to-retirement transitions and phased retirement
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Examination questions
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Describe the purpose and practices surrounding the Social Security System
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Examination questions and assignments
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Calculate the optimal date to begin receiving Social Security retirement benefits and the impact of the earnings test for a case client
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Describe the Medicare program, including the payroll taxes and eligibility structure
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Examination questions and assignments
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Distinguish between the four parts of Medicare coverage related to benefits, out-of-pocket costs and alternative insurance options to cover the gaps in coverage.
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Examination questions
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Propose the proper Medicare coverage and any supplemental coverage based on client circumstances
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Distinguish between qualified, government, non-qualified, and private tax-advantaged retirement plans
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Compare the various types of defined benefit, defined contribution and individual retirement accounts
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Differentiate between the various types of Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs)
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Propose an appropriate IRA for a client’s needs.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Identify the factors that will affect the selection of a retirement plan for a business
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Choose a qualified or non-qualified retirement plan given a business owner’s goals and objectives.
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Examination questions and case preparation
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Discuss the rules and penalties regarding retirement plan distributions
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Examination questions and assignments
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Evaluate investments for both funding and retirement distribution purposes, considering the time horizon and risk tolerance of plan owners and beneficiaries.
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Examination questions and case preparation.
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| Prepare an investment portfolio that minimizes retirement income risk |
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Examination questions and case preparation |
| Describe how life insurance products may affect retirement plan decisions |
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Examination questions and case preparation |
| Outline the factors a business owner should consider when creating a succession plan. |
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Examination questions and case preparation |
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PFP 480 - Financial Planning Capstone
Description:
Develops the concept of a comprehensive plan. Reviews of each of the major aspects of financial planning in the context of a comprehensive case. Students will synthesize all information and create a comprehensive financial plan for a client. Analyzes the financial planning profession and the various types of financial planning models.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: (FIN 370 and PFP 310 and ACCT 303 with a minimum grade of C) AND FIN 475 and PFP 440 and PFP 450 and PFP 460 and admission to a College of Business major.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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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.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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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.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Collect all necessary and relevant qualitative and quantitative information required to develop a financial plan.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Analyze personal financial situations, evaluating clients’ objectives, needs, and values to develop an appropriate strategy within the financial plan.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Demonstrate logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to a specific problem.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Evaluate the impact of economic, political, and regulatory issues with regard to the financial plan.
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Apply the CFP Board Financial Planning Practice Standards to the financial planning process
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Written case analysis and presentation
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Philosophy (PHIL)
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PHIL 101 - Philosophical Inquiry
Description:
Introduction to the basic themes, thinkers, and topics of philosophy. The mind-body problem, good versus evil, knowledge, truth, goodness, and beauty. AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
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PHIL 102 - Knowledge, Mind and Reality
Description:
An introduction to philosophy, focusing on the core fields of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Topics may include belief, rationality, skepticism, the nature of mind, free will, personal identify, and time.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 103 - What Is Enlightenment?
Description:
An investigation of how diverse philosophical traditions have defined enlightenment, the process by which we emerge from some form of ignorance or captivity into freedom, understanding, and maturity.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 104 - Moral Controversies
Description:
An introduction to moral reasoning through the study of current ethical problems. Topics may include abortion, physician-assisted suicide, capital punishment, immigration, affirmative action, terrorism, and torture. AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W). Formerly PHIL 210, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
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PHIL 105 - The Meaning of Life
Description:
An exploration of the meaning of life from diverse philosophical traditions. Topics may include hedonism versus pessimism, theism, scientific humanism, and existentialism. Formerly PHIL 115, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 106 - Asian Philosophy
Description:
Examination of selected classical and/or contemporary issues and questions in Chinese, Japanese and Indian philosophy. AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W). Formerly PHIL 209, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
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PHIL 150 - Critical Thinking
Description:
This course will focus on informal logic: understanding and evaluating arguments in ordinary language. Students will learn to read, write, and think critically. Basic Skills 5 - Reasoning.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
Basic Skills 5 - Reasoning.
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PHIL 201 - Introduction to Logic
Description:
Formal principles, methods and techniques for analyzing, constructing, and evaluating arguments. Topics include validity, soundness, truth tables, Venn diagrams, syllogisms, and logical symbolism. Basic Skills 5 - Reasoning.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
Basic Skills 5 - Reasoning.
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PHIL 298 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PHIL 299 - Seminar
Credits: (1-5)
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PHIL 302 - Ethical Theory
Description:
Offers an overview of the content and justification of historical approaches to ethical theory. Includes a critical assessment of those theories and a discussion of current approaches to ethical theory.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 304 - Business Ethics
Description:
Ethical problems that arise in contemporary business practices and the relevance of recent ethical theory to these problems.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 305 - Philosophy of Religion
Description:
Fundamental assumptions and issues in religious activity and thought; types of religious philosophy.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 306 - Environmental Ethics
Description:
An examination of various positions on the human relationship with the natural environment, from ancient and contemporary, western and non-western, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: sophomore standing or above.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
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PHIL 307 - Introduction to Formal Logic
Description:
An introduction to formal logic, focusing on propositional and predicate calculus. Logical operators, symbolization, truth functions, truth tables, natural deduction (including conditional and direct proofs), and quantifiers.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 308 - Medical Ethics
Description:
Explores ethical issues arising in a medical context, such as the allocation of scarce medical resources and health care, patient confidentiality , advance directives, human experimentation, and physician-assisted suicide.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 309 - Ethics through Film
Description:
An examination of ethical theories and themes in film, including the ethics of filmmaking. Films will be selected from a wide range of possibilities, including foreign productions. Formerly PHIL 402, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 314 - American Wilderness Philosophy
Description:
An exploration of the wilderness tradition in American philosophy. Topics include the value of wilderness areas, outdoor recreation, hunting, and fishing; back to the land movements; and current proposals to “rewild” built environments. Course will be offered on odd numbered years (Spring).
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Identify various themes and focuses in wilderness thinking (conservation, preservation, re-wilding, etc).
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Students will complete weekly explanatory papers on assigned readings.
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Graded weekly writing assignments.
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Identify contemporary environmental issues to which wilderness philosophy is particularly relevant.
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Students will review relevant literature and complete a topic selection worksheet.
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Topic selection worksheet evaluated by faculty in consultation with student.
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Apply themes from wilderness philosophy and writings to contemporary environmental issues.
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Through in-class discussion and written work students will apply course readings to a novel, contemporary issues.
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Graded research paper, peer review of in-class presentations.
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Evaluate the ability of wilderness philosophy to contribute to contemporary environmental issues.
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Having identified an issue and applied course readings to that issue, students will evaluate whether wilderness philosophy provides realistic solutions to that issue.
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Graded research paper, peer review of in-class presentations.
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Distinguish wilderness philosophy from broader environmental movements.
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Students will complete weekly explanatory papers on assigned readings and, through in-class discussion, compare those readings with other approaches to similar issues.
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Graded writing assignmnents and midterm essay.
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PHIL 324 - Philosophy and Science Fiction
Description:
Covers issues in analytic philosophy via examination of science fiction works. Topics may include skepticism, free will, personal identity, artificial intelligence, machine ethics, transhumanism, genetic engineering and time travel.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 325 - Women and Philosophy
Description:
An examination of what the history of philosophy has claimed about the significance of gender with particular attention to the characterization of women in those texts and the impact of this history on contemporary thought.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 345 - Chinese Philosophy
Description:
Selected philosophical topics in Chinese literature. May be repeated up to 10 credits. Formerly PHIL 445, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 347 - Philosophy of Law
Description:
Examines theories regarding the origin and justification of legal systems, including; natural law theory, legal positivism, and legal realism. Topics may include; civil disobedience, religious freedom, affirmative action, pornography, the insanity defense, and punishment.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 348 - Social and Political Philosophy
Description:
An examination of the philosophical foundations of major modern social and political systems such as classical conservatism, liberalism, socialism, fascism, and anarchism.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 352 - Greek and Roman Philosophy
Description:
Overview of major thinkers and themes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Figures/schools discussed may include the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism, Cicero, and/or Plotinus.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 353 - Early Modern Philosophy
Description:
A study of some of the influential philosophies of the 17th and 18th centuries: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 354 - Kant and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Description:
A study of European philosophers from the late 18th and 19th centuries. The course focuses on primary texts from such philosophers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 357 - Philosophy of Race
Description:
This course will examine the philosophical significance of race: interrogating its reality and legitimacy as a category of identify, and the political and social implications of racial identify, both historically and in contemporary contexts.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 358 - Existentialism
Description:
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marcel, Heidegger, Jaspers, and Sartre.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 359 - Contemporary European Philosophy
Description:
A historical and critical study of contemporary European philosophy, with particular emphasis on phenomenology (including Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty) and how these ideas and methods have influenced recent European thought. Formerly PHIL 459, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Demonstrate an understanding of the key concepts and methodology of phenomenology
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Participation in class discussion, formal and informal writing.
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Evaluate the arguments provided that support these concepts and claims.
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Participation in class discussion, formal and informal writing.
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Articulate and justify original interpretations of these issues.
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Formal writing (midterm and final paper).
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Practice the process of brainstorming, drafting, and revising a thesis-based philosophy paper.
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Prospectus, rough draft, and final paper.
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PHIL 361 - Theory of Knowledge
Description:
A critical study of contemporary analytic epistemology. Topics may include belief, evidence, and perception; skepticism and justification; a priori knowledge; induction; knowledge of other minds; the ethics of belief; truth and relativism. Formerly PHIL 461, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 364 - Philosophy of Mind
Description:
A critical study of contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. Topics may include dualism, materialism, functionalism, consciousness, intentionality and representation, the computational theory of mind, artificial intelligence, and animal minds. Formerly PHIL 463, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 378 - Philosophy of Love
Description:
A study of various concepts of love as they occur in philosophy, literature, and other cultural expressions. The nature of romantic love, eros, agape, friendship, and fellow feeling will be discussed. AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: sophomore standing or above.
Credits: (5)
General Education Category
AH-Philosophies and Culture World (W).
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PHIL 380 - Philosophy of Science
Description:
A critical study of the aims, structure, and methodology of the sciences. Topics covered may include explanation, prediction, induction, theories, scientific realism, empiricism, laws, and confirmation. Formerly PHIL 480, students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 398 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PHIL 403 - Philosophy of Art
Description:
Survey of ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy of art, with an emphasis on primary texts and application to artwork. Examination of different ways to define art and its function: art as representation, expression, and metaphor. Formerly, PHIL 303. Students may not receive credit for both.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 459 - Phenomenology
Description:
A historical and critical study of phenomenology as a philosophic method. Leading phenomenologists such as Husserl, Scheler, and Merleau-Ponty.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 465 - Advanced Ethics
Description:
Advanced topics reflecting current trends and problems within philosophical ethics. May be repeated up to a maximum of 10 credits.
Credits: (5)
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PHIL 485 - Capstone Project
Description:
Culminating experience (research paper, internship or creative project) to synthesize and display understanding of knowledge gained in coursework as applied to academic, professional and personal plans for the future.
Credits: (2)
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PHIL 488 - Junior Seminar
Description:
Intensive study of selected philosophical theories, movements, or figures. May be repeated up to 10 credits under a different subtitle.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: student must be a philosophy major with junior or senior standing or have permission from the instructor.
Credits: (5)
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Learning Agreement Forms PHIL 490 - Cooperative Education
Description:
An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. This contractual arrangement involves a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination. May be repeated for credit. Grade will either be S or U.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: prior approval required.
Credits: (1-12)
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PHIL 494 - Undergraduate Thesis Preparation
Description:
Preparation for writing undergraduate thesis. Grade will be either S or U.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: advanced standing (junior standing or above) and permission of instructor.
Credits: (2)
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PHIL 495 - Undergraduate Thesis
Description:
Produce an original substantive thesis-driven paper based on independent research. By permission.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PHIL 494 and advanced standing.
Credits: (3)
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PHIL 497 - Honors Thesis
Description:
Produce an original, thesis-driven honors level paper based on original research. Paper will be reviewed by a second departmental reader and presented in an open forum.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PHIL 494, advanced standing, and admission to the Philosophy and Religious Studies Departmental Honors Program.
Credits: (3)
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PHIL 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PHIL 499 - Seminar
Credits: (5)
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Physical Education (PE)
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PE 115 - Beginning Climbing
Description:
This course will introduce students to indoor rock climbing techniques. Including: climbing movement and top rope climbing skills. May be repeated up to 3 credits.
Credits: (1)
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PE 116 - Intermediate Climbing
Description:
This course will build indoor rock climbing skills learned in PE 115, beginning climbing, and introduce skills that will help students begin climbing outside. Including climbing movement, lead climbing, rappelling and anchor cleaning. May be repeated up to 3 credits.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PE 115 or instructor approval.
Credits: (1)
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PE 118 - Climbing Wall to Rock
Description:
Introduction to outdoor rock climbing by ensuring proficiency in an indoor setting over 5 weeks and to be concluded with an outdoor climbing trip to utilize skills learned. Course focuses on anchor systems, rappelling, lead climbing and belaying, and trip planning. Climbing experience and a top rope belay certification required.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PE 115 or PE 116 or by permission of instructor.
Credits: (1)
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PE 220 - Climbing Wall Instructor
Description:
This course will prepare students to instruct climbing in an indoor setting. Students will learn to instruct both technical and movement climbing skills. This course will prepare students to receive a climbing wall instructor certification through the professional climbing instructors association. May be repeated up to 6 credits.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PEID 298 Intermediate Climbing or instructor permission.
Credits: (2)
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PE 298 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PE 321 - Football Coaching
Credits: (3)
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PE 323 - Basketball Coaching
Credits: (3)
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PE 324 - Track Coaching (On reserve as of 9/16/15)
Description:
Put on reserve as of 9/16/15. Will go inactive 8/24/18.
Credits: (3)
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PE 325 - Baseball Coaching
Credits: (3)
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PE 326 - Theory of Coaching Soccer
Description:
This course provides an in-depth examination of the coaching of soccer at all school age levels. May be repeated up to 6 credits.
Credits: (3)
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PE 330 - Volleyball Coach
Credits: (3)
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PE 334 - Physical Education Activities for the Elementary School
Description:
Selection, organization, and presentation of physical education activities in the elementary school.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance, and conditional or full admission to the Teacher Certification Program.
Credits: (3)
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PE 346 - Administration of Athletes
Description:
The course will provide the student with an overview of the role of the athletic director as the leader, manager, organizer, and director of the interscholastic and intercollegiate programs in public and private schools.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PE 365.
Credits: (3)
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PE 365 - Foundations of Coaching
Description:
Introduction to principles and methods of coaching sports with children and youth.
Credits: (3)
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PE 398 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PE 442 - Field Work in Physical Education
Description:
Class to be arranged by college supervisor. May be repeated for credit. Grade will either be S or U.
Credits: (1-6)
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PE 448 - Coaching and Competitive Ethics
Description:
This course is to enable the student to understand and apply ethical values as a practitioner (coach) in the realm of competitive sport.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PE 365.
Credits: (3)
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PE 453 - Psychological and Sociological Foundations of Coaching
Description:
Investigation of factors affecting individual and group behavior in the coaching of interscholastic sports.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PE 365.
Credits: (3)
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PE 484 - Legal Liability and Risk Management (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)
Description:
Aspects of personal law, premises liability, and risk management affecting policy, and behavior within the physical education and coaching profession. (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2012. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)
Credits: (3)
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PE 491 - Workshop Clinic
Description:
Letter grades or S or U grades may be given at the option of the Department of Physical Education. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (1-6)
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PE 492 - Practicum
Description:
Practical experience working with children in physical education activities. May be repeated for credit. Four credits required in major.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: four credits in physical education major.
Credits: (1-4)
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PE 498 - Special Topics
Credits: (1-6)
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PE 499 - Seminar
Credits: (1-5)
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Physical Education and School Health (PESH)
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PESH 280 - Foundations of Physical Education and School Health
Description:
Fundamental issues, theories, paradigms, constructs, history, and experiences necessary for an understanding of teaching Health and Physical Education as a profession and lifestyle.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.
Credits: (4)
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PESH 300 - Comprehensive School Health Education
Description:
This course is designed to provide the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to teach comprehensive school health education with a major emphasis on consumer/community health, environmental health, and personal health/safety.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 326 - Human Diseases
Description:
Introduces students to fundamental principles relating to identification, prevention, and control of non-infectious and infectious diseases in contemporary society; emphasis on physical, social, psychological, and environmental issues surrounding these diseases.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 330 - Positive Youth Development in Physical Activity
Description:
Provides philosophical and practical base for working in youth development programs. Focus on programs that serve youth through physical activity with special emphasis on goals of personal and social responsibility.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 336 - Practicum 1
Description:
Physical education teaching practicum.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280, and current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.
Credits: (2)
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PESH 341 - Characteristics of Effective Physical Education Teaching
Description:
Examination of selected pedagogical principles and their impact on the teaching of human movement.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280 or instructor permission for students pursuing the physical activity and recreational programming minor.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 342 - Developmental Movement
Description:
Instruction in the analysis and teaching of movement concepts, locomotor, and non-locomotor skills.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280.
Credits: (4)
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PESH 343 - Pedagogical Application of Teaching Styles and Systematic Reflection
Description:
The purpose of this course is to expand your already-developed effective teaching skills and knowledge to include styles of teaching and systematic analysis.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PESH 280 and PESH 341 and PESH 342 or instructor permission for students pursuing the physical activity recreational programming minor.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 344 - Applications of Technology in Teaching Fitness and Physical Activity
Description:
Introduces students to the plethora of technological advances being used to teach children about their health.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: PESH 280, and current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance. Corequisite: PESH 341.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 345 - School Health Curriculum
Description:
This course is designed to expose learners to current school based health education curricula, materials, and strategies necessary to effectively teach comprehensive school health education in the K-12 setting. Formerly HED 345, students may not receive credit for both.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: HED 210.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 348 - Tactics and Skills of Striking and Net/Wall Games
Description:
This course will cover the content of tactics and striking skills in a variety of net/wall games (e.g. badminton, handball, pickleball, tennis, volleyball).
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PESH 280, and current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 350 - Utilizing Tactics and Skills for Invasion Games
Description:
This course will cover the content of invasion games and sports (e.g., basketball, soccer, lacrosse, rugby, hockey).
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PESH 280 and current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 356 - Teaching Lifelong Physical Activity Pursuits
Description:
Introduces students to methodology related to teaching nontraditional activities in traditional and nontraditional settings.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PESH 280, PESH 341, PESH 342, PESH 343 or instructor permission for students pursuing the physical activity and recreational programming minor.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 358 - Applications of Resistance, Core, and Cardiovascular Training
Description:
Students will develop, using sound research practice, skills to deliver group exercise training programs to classes at the secondary level. Emphasis is placed on resistance, core, and cardiovascular physical activities.
Credits: (3)
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PESH 431 - Principles of Sexual Health Education
Description:
Principles and content for sex education in school and community settings. Formerly HED 431, students may not receive credit for both.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: by permission.
Credits: (3)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
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Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Students will describe the roles of familial and societal factors on human sexuality and reproduction.
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Written Exams and reflection paper. The presentation will be based on a rubric.
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Students will identify and discuss the importance of medically accurate, fact-based sexuality education.
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Written Exams.
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Students will identify the importance of human sexuality within the broader context of health.
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Discussions and Reflection Paper. All assessments will be based on a rubric.
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Students will be able to identify and discuss HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Students will be able to identify and discuss HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Students will be able to describe the anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive systems.
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Written Exams.
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The student will demonstrate best practices for teaching exemplary sexual health education.
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Students will be assigned mini-presentations to be conducted to their peers.
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A rubric will be utilized to grade the individual mini-presentation regarding the implementation of the best practices teaching model.
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Students will integrate the national sexuality education standards into health lesson & unit plans.
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Students will create eight skills-based behavioral objectives that are the foundational components of health lesson and unit plans based on the National Sexual Health Education Standards.
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A scoring guide and/or rubric will be utilized to assess if students properly created skill behavioral objectives into all of the unit plans taught to K-12 students throughout the quarter.
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Students will employ a 3-lesson, pre-prepared sexuality health education curricula to K-12 students.
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Utilizing provided medically accurate health education curricula, candidates will teach a total of one, 3-lesson units over the course of the quarter.
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Written self-reflection submissions based upon teaching episode recall for all twelve teaching experiences.
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PESH 437 - Practicum 2
Description:
Physical Education teaching practicum.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PESH 280, PESH 336, and current WSP/FBI fingerprint clearance.
Credits: (3)
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