Master Syllabus: RMI 33461

TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

RMI 3346
Life and Health Insurance

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Prerequisites

RMI 3335

Description

A study of the types of life insurance and annuity contracts and their uses; regulations of life and health insurers; Social Security; group and individual health insurance products including major medical, disability income and long-term care policies.

Objectives

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Differentiate between the common types of life insurance.
  2. Describe the most common life insurance contract provisions.
  3. Describe the common types of health insurance.
  4. Explain retirement planning with annuities.
  5. Explain the key features of disability income and long-term care policies.

Purpose

This is a course designed to develop an understanding of Life and Health Insurance and the place of those products in the risk management plans of individuals and businesses. This course will prepare the students to take the State of Alabama’s Department of Insurance Life and Health Insurance exam.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc…

Approved Texts

Black, Kenneth and Skipper, Harold (current). Life & Health Insurance. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Prentice Hall.

Life and Health - Insurance Keys, Sagamore Training Systems

Supplements

As deemed appropriate.

Troy University Faculty Handbook(2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

  1. Course title
  2. Course number + section
  3. Term
  4. Instructor
  5. Prerequisites
  6. Office hours
  7. Class days, times
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  1. Classroom location
  2. Office location + e-mail address
  3. Office telephone
  4. Course description, objectives
  5. Text(s)
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  1. Other materials
  2. Grading methods, criterion weights, make-up policy, mid-term grade reports
  3. Procedure, course requirements
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  1. General supports (Computer Works, writing center)
  2. Daily assignments, holidays, add/drop & open dates, dead day, final exam
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  1. ADA statement
  2. Electronic device statement
  3. Additional services, statements
  4. Attendance/
    Absence policy
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  1. Incomplete work policy
  2. Cheating policy
  3. Specialization requirements (certification, licensure, teacher competencies)