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INS 349 Cooperative Study in Insurance. (1-6 hours)

Prerequisite: 2.0 GPA. Co-curricular work experience under direction of faculty and field supervisors. Training Plan required. May be retaken to a maximum of six hours. Minimum 80 hours work required per credit hour.

INS 370 Principles of Risk and Insurance. (3 hours)

Theory and practice of insurance and its economic and social significance; basic life, health, and property-liability insurance for organizations and families; review of the major lines of insurance.

INS 372 Fundamentals of Property-Liability Insurance. (3 hours)

Prerequisite: INS 370 or instructor approval.  Planning and evaluating non-personal property-liability insurance; analysis of insurance coverage against pure risk related to property-liability insurance exposure. 

INS 374 Fundamentals of Life and Health Insurance. (3 hours)

Prerequisite: INS 370 or instructor approval. Analysis of the life and health insurance and annuity products available in the individual market. Includes a discussion of systems for determining the individual's life and health insurance needs.

INS 378 Risk Management. (3 hours)

Risk management as used by organizations; basic functions of risk management with emphasis placed on risk management decision making.   

INS 380 Personal Risk Management. (3 hours)

Preprequisite: INS 370 or instructor approval. An examination of personal loss exposures and their treatment. Emphasizes risk management techniques. Topics include property and liability loss exposures for personal automobile, homeowners, premature death, illness, accidental injury, superannuation, investment risks, and estate planning.

INS 400 Seminar in Insurance. (3 hours)

Prerequisite: Instructor approval. A seminar study of selected topics of special and contemporary interest to business students. May be retaken under different subtitles for cumulative maximum of six hours.

INS 460

INS 474 Life Insurance and Estate Planning. (3 hours)

Prerequisites: INS 374 or instructor approval. Role of life  insurance, gifting and trusts in estate planning;  considerations of developing an estate plan for the individual or the family.

INS 476 Employee Benefit Planning. (3 hours)

Formerly INS 376.  Prerequisite: INS 370 or instructor approval.  Employee benefit plans including taxation, costs, and choices of funding.  Includes an analysis of  the role of employee benefit plans in meeting the risks of death, sickness, disability and superannuation. 

INS 486 Insurance Company Operations. (3 hours)

This course examines unique insurance functions including  underwriting, reinsurance, ratemaking, claims adjusting, loss control and other insurer activities. It will prepare the student for an examination administered by the American Institute leading to the professional designation, CPCU.  Capstone course.

INS 490 Special Problems in Insurance. (3 hours)

Prerequisite: advisor/departmental chair approval. May be retaken under different subtopics to a maximum of 6 hours. Independent work, special topics, or seminars. Student must have the independent study course proposal form approved by faculty supervisor and department chair prior to enrollment.

 

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