Consumer and Family Financial Services

Effective for students admitted to the College of Education and Human Ecology beginning Spring 2024

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General Education Requirements (32-39 Hours)

Bookends (2 Hours)

• Launch Seminar (1)
• Reflection Seminar (1)

Foundations (22-25 Hours)

• Writing & Information Literacy (3)
• Mathematical & Quantitative Reasoning or Data Analysis (3-5)
• Literary, Visual & Performing Arts (3)
• Historical & Cultural Studies (3)
• Natural Science (4-5)
• Social & Behavioral Sciences (3)
• Race, Ethnic & Gender Diversity (3)

Thematic Pathways (8-12 Hours)

Take 4-6 hours from Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World and 4-6 hours from another Thematic Pathway of choice.

• Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
• Choice of 4-6 hours from one additional Thematic Pathway:
  • Lived Environments
  • Origins & Evolution
  • Migration, Mobility, & Immobility
  • Sustainability
  • Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
  • Health & Wellbeing
  • Number, Nature, Mind

College Requirement (1 Hour)

• EHE 1100 College Survey (1)

Supporting Course Requirements (12-17 Hours)

• Math Placement M or L, or MATH 1130 or equivalent (0-4)
• ECON 2001.01 Principles of Microeconomics (can overlap with GE Social & Behavioral Sciences) (3)
• Choose one (either can overlap with GE Math & Quantitative Reasoning or Data Analysis)
  • CSE 1111 Introduction to Computer-Assisted Problem Solving (3)
  • CSE 2111 Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and Databases (3)
• Choose one:
  • STAT 1350.xx Elementary Statistics (3)
  • STAT 1430.xx Statistics for the Business Sciences (4)
  • STAT 1450.xx Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (3)
• Choose one:
  • ENGLISH 3304 Business and Professional Writing (3)
  • ENGLISH 3305 Technical Writing (3)

Major Requirements (43 Hours)

Major Core (13)

• CSCFFS 2260 Healthy Finances and Economic Wellbeing for Individuals and Families (3)
• CONSCI 2910 Consumer Problems and Perspectives (3)
• CONSCI/CSCFFS 2990 Professional Development (1)
• CONSCI 3930 Consumer Decision-Making I (3)
• CONSCI 3940 Consumer Information: Methods of Data Analysis (3)

Group A and Group B Requirements (30)

Complete 30 credit hours from Group A and Group B with at least 15 hours from Group A. Students are encouraged but not required to complete a focus area in either Consumer Economics Focus or Financial Planning Focus.

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Group A (Hours in parenthesis)

Consumer Economics Focus

• CSCFFS 4130 Consumer Decision Making II (3)
• CSCFFS 4150 Quantitative Methods in Consumer Sciences (3)
• CSCFFS 5120 Consumers in the Health Marketplace (3)
• CSCFFS 5130 Solutions to Consumer Problems (3)
• CSCFFS 5140 Topics in Consumer Sciences (3)

Financial Planning Focus

• CSCFFS 3260 Fundamentals of Financial Planning (3)
• CSCFFS 4260 Family Tax Planning (3)
• CSCFFS 4280 Estate Planning for Individuals and Families (2)
• CSCFFS 5250 Retirement Planning and Employee Benefits (3)
• CSCFFS 5260 Financial Planning Applications (4)

Other Group A Choices

• CONSCI/CSCFFS 3191 Internship (3)
• CONSCI 4998 or 4998H Undergraduate Research in Consumer Sciences (1-3)
• CSCFFS 3270 Families in Business (3)
• CSCFFS/CSHSPMG/CSFRST 3910 Customer Experience Management (3)
• CSCFFS 5150 FINRA Securities Industry Essentials Exam Preparation (1)
• CSCFFS 5160 Series 65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law Exam (1)

Group B (Hours in parenthesis)

• ECON 4001.01 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (3) (Highly recommended choice)
• ACCTMIS 2000 Foundations of Accounting (3) or ACCTMIS 2200 Introduction to Accounting I (3)
• ACCTMIS 2300 Introduction to Accounting II (3)
• BUSFIN 3222 Foundations of Investments (3) or BUSFIN 4221 Investments (3)
• BUSFIN 3300 Principles of Insurance (3)
• BUSFIN 3120 Foundations of Finance (3) or BUSFIN 3220 Business Finance (3)
• BUSFIN 3500 Legal Environment of Business (1.5)
• BUSFIN 4224 Behavioral Finance (1.5)
• BUSFIN 4310 Property and Liability Insurance (3)
• BUSFIN 4311 Personal Insurance (3)
• BUSFIN 4312 Employee Benefits Plans (3)
• BUSOBA 3130 Foundations of Operations Management (3)
• BUSMHR 2500 Entrepreneurship (3)
• BUSMHR 3100 Foundations of Management and Human Resources (3)
• BUSMHR 3510 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3)
• BUSMHR 3511 Value Creation in the Social Enterprise (3)
• BUSML 3150 Foundations of Marketing (3)
• COMM 2131 Business and Professional Speaking (3)
• ECON 2002.01 Principles of Macroeconomics (3)
• ECON 3048 Ethics and Social Responsibility in Economic Life (3)
• ECON 4400 Elementary Econometrics (3)
• ECON 4700 Government and Business (3)
• ECON 4800 Labor Economics and Industrial Relations (3)
• ECON 5860 Health Economics (3)
• HDFS 2210 Helping Skills in Context (3)
• SOCWORK 3501 Building Engagement & Interpersonal Skills (3)
• PUBAFRS 2110 Introduction to Public Affairs (3)

Students who want to fulfill the education requirements for attaining CFP certification must complete the following courses. Some courses have pre-requisites that are not listed. Students must look up any pre-requisites.

• BUSFIN 3222 Foundations of Investments
• BUSFIN 3300 Principles of Insurance
• CSCFFS 3260 Fundamentals of Financial Planning
• CSCFFS 4260 Family Tax Planning
• CSCFFS 4280 Estate Planning for Individuals and Families
• CSCFFS 5250 Retirement Planning and Employee Benefits
• CSCFFS 5260 Financial Planning Applications

Total Hours: 82-97

Free Electives to reach 120 Hours: 23-38

Minimum of 120 credit hours required for degree completion. Total Hours range is based on requirement course choices and/or the number of credits that overlap between requirement areas. Students are encouraged to overlap as many credits as possible.