Dollars and Sense
This learning community will focus on making smart consumer decisions and wisely using your money. Decisions made all through the human development cycle will be covered, but the primary emphasis will be on decisions made during the college years and during young adulthood.
Some of the specific topics to be discussed include making and sticking to a budget, using your checking account and debit card properly, protecting your credit and wisely using your credit cards, smart spending of your discretionary money, the importance of saving and investing, the management of non-monetary consumer resources, such as your time, and the repercussions of not making wise decisions.
The community links the following courses: CSM 204, Introduction to Personal Financial Planning; HD 101, Human Development; Freshman Composition (EN 101 or 103), and the one credit FLC 101 seminar. The director of the community is Prof. Caroline S. Fulmer of the Consumer Sciences Department, College of Human Environmental Sciences.