2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EXPL 0101 - Money and You


Credits: 1.5

Students will explore several topics in financial literacy and how financial literacy influences well-being. Students will reflect on the role of financial literacy in their own lives as an essential tool in reducing financial and other forms of stress. Topics include the purpose of money and the student’s connection to it, budgeting techniques and how budgeting improves wellness, setting financial goals, coping with financial hardship, the importance of saving and the effects of compound interest, making sound financial decisions, the costs of housing and setting realistic housing goals, building credit and how credit improves financial well-being, the fundamentals of loans and insurances, and using apps and AI as tools for finances.