Master Syllabus: RMI 4449 2

TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

RMI 4449
Risk Management and Insurance Seminar

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 or permission of the Department Chair or Program Coordinator.

Description

Focuses on current problems and issues in risk management and insurance. This is the capstone course in the Risk Management/Insurance curriculum and should be taken the senior year. The course will include communication, teamwork, and computer skills. Prerequisite: RMI 3335 or permission of department chair.

Objectives

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

1. Apply accounting and finance principles in an insurance context.

2. Pass the CPCU 540 (Business and Financial Analysis) pre-license examination (formerly CPCU 8).

Purpose

To provide an opportunity to apply accounting and finance principles to solving problems in risk management and insurance accounting, with an emphasis on refining accounting, finance, and analytical tools for decision-making. BABA/BSBA Risk Management and Insurance major capstone.

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

AICPCU/IIA. (2003 or current). Fundamentals of corporate finance [+ course guide, Business and Financial Analysis for Risk Management and Insurance Professionals (4th ed.)] (1st ed.). Malvern, PA: AICPCU/IIA. [Continuation of the Marshall et al. editions.]

Supplements

Keir, J. C. (2003). CPCU study materials. Middletown, OH: Keir Educational Resources.

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 / 8.  Classroom location
9.  Office location + e-mail address
10.  Office telephone
11.  Course description, objectives
12.  Text(s) / 13.  Other materials
14.  Grading methods, criterion weights, make-up policy, mid-term grade reports
15.  Procedure, course requirements / 16.  General supports (Computer Works, writing center)
17.  Daily assignments, holidays, add/drop & open dates, dead day, final exam / 18.  ADA statement
19.  Electronic device statement
20.  Additional services, statements
21.  Attendance/
Absence policy / 22.  Incomplete work policy
23.  Cheating policy
24.  Specialization requirements (certification, licensure, teacher competencies)