2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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BSA 110 - Personal Finance
Description: Information for making personal and family financial decisions. Includes budgeting, saving, credit, installment buying, insurance, buying vs. renting a home, investment, and estate disposal through will and trust.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Course Content:
- The economics of love and pain
- You have to live with what you have
- The high cost of living
- Banks and the banking system
- The overextended American
- Putting a roof over your head
- Getting there by car is half the worry
- Other forms of protection: life insurance and Social Security
- Saving
- Investing
- Retirement and the golden years
Learning Outcomes:
- Make intelligent consumer decisions in such areas as:
a. Budgeting
b. Cost of living
c. Banking
d. Credit
e. Mortgages
f. Transportation
g. Insurance and Social Security
h. Saving
i. Investing
j. Retirement
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