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2016-17 Undergraduate Catalog

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Finance, Insurance Concentration, B.B.A.

Department of Economics and Finance
615-898-2520

In addition to meeting the Jennings A. Jones College of Business requirements, a major in Finance with an Insurance concentration consists of 27 semester hours of finance and requires a minimum of 2.00 GPA. At least 50 percent of the required major hours must be taken in residence at MTSU.

The program below includes a Business Administration minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Finance, Insurance, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

General Education (41 hours)

General Education requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences.

The following General Education courses are required for this major:

MATH 1630, 1810, or 1910 (Math)
ECON 2410 (Soc/Beh Sci and core course)

College of Business Core (39 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core .

Insurance Concentration (27 hours)

FIN 3610 - General Insurance 3 credit hours
FIN 3910 - Computer Applications in Finance 3 credit hours
FIN 4110 - Managerial Finance 3 credit hours
FIN 4750 - Risk Management 3 credit hours
Choose 6 credit hours from the following:
FIN 3660 - Life Insurance and Health Insurance 3 credit hours OR
FIN 3710 - Property and Casualty Insurance 3 credit hours OR
FIN 4710 - Insurance in Estate Planning 3 credit hours OR
FIN 4730 - Insurance Company Operations 3 credit hours
INS elective 3 credit hours
FIN electives 6 credit hours

Auxiliary Courses (6 hours)

Business electives 6 credit hours

Electives (7 hours)

Total hours in program: 120

Curriculum: Finance, Insurance Concentration

Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

Freshman

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours
ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours
MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (Math) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (Math) OR
MATH 1910 - Calculus I 4 credit hours (Math)
Elective(s) 4 credit hours
COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
Natural Sciences (2 prefixes) 8 credit hours
ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours (Soc/Beh Sci) *
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours *

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Sophomore

ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
HUM 2610 - Foreign Literature in Translation 3 credit hours (Hum/FA)
Humanities and/or Fine Arts (2 prefixes) 6 credit hours
Social/Behavioral Sciences 3 credit hours
Elective 3 credit hours
ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 3 credit hours *
Choose 6 hours from:
HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II 3 credit hours OR
HIST 2030 - Tennessee History 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Junior

BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
BCED 3510 - Business Communication 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
FIN 3010 - Business Finance 3 credit hours
FIN 3610 - General Insurance 3 credit hours §
FIN 3910 - Computer Applications in Finance 3 credit hours §
BUS 3000 - Dale Carnegie Communications and Human Relations Seminar 3 credit hours
BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours AND
BIA 3621 - Introduction to Business Analytics Lab 0 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Senior

FIN 4110 - Managerial Finance 3 credit hours §
FIN 4750 - Risk Management 3 credit hours §
FIN elective 6 credit hours §
FIN Insurance elective 3 credit hours §
Business elective 6 credit hours
BUAD 4980 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours §

6 credit hours from:

FIN 3660 - Life Insurance and Health Insurance 3 credit hours
FIN 3710 - Property and Casualty Insurance 3 credit hours
FIN 4710 - Insurance in Estate Planning 3 credit hours
FIN 4730 - Insurance Company Operations 3 credit hours

NOTE:

Students pursuing the CLU should take FIN 3660 and FIN 4710 , and students pursuing the CPCU should take FIN 3710 and FIN 4730 .

Subtotal: 30 Hours

NOTE:

*A 2.25 GPA in these courses is required for admission to the Jones College of Business.

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