Flagship Course
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OVERVIEW
Life Finances is a foundational, 10-module personal finance course for secondary and undergraduate students.
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The course focuses on a number of specific topics: credit, banking, investments, insurance, mortgage finance, taxes, charitable giving, etc. Within these topics, a multitude of subtopics, key terms, and basic calculations will be presented to the students including payday loans, credit scores, mutual funds, IRAs, FICA tax, Future Values, deductibles, APRs, gambling, balance sheets, etc. Students are required to work through various life situations which force decisions that impact their finances.
Life Finances is set in a virtual environment in which students make practical decisions that will effect their income statements and balance sheets. They also have unexpected events pop-up every so often (sometimes favorable to their finances and sometimes unfavorable). As students progress through the course with their mentors – Bo and Maria – they build up their “scores.” Taking the course with them is a virtual buddy – Eddie – who may not be the best influence! They learn that sometimes it is profitable to learn from other’s mistakes but not always advantageous to follow a buddy’s advice.
Life Finances is one of the most exciting educational developments in America today. It combines effective methodology with lively computer graphics and delivers a relevant topic in an engaging manner by using a 21st century distribution method. It has some of the “coolest” CG used in the industry. The course is highly entertaining yet rigorous.
The storyline, virtual friends, and immediately relevant topics make the Life Finances course thoroughly engaging for students. They rehearse ways of dealing with real life circumstances and gain some hands-on familiarity with financial record keeping and paperwork.
Life Finances is a 21st century course for a new educational paradigm.
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