Description
Liberty FNLT 101 Financial Literacy Entire Class
Course Description:
The course is designed to assist students in understanding how to pay for college, manage money, and maintain financial responsibility. Students will learn applicable skills such as, how to budget and plan for current and future financial needs. For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale:
FNLT 101 provides information relating to college life and preparation/tools for personal finance, as well as biblical stewardship. Because it is vital for students to learn how to manage money as guided by Scripture, particularly in today’s global economy, FNLT 101 is an ideal choice.
Measurable Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate the ability to create a personal financial plan that reflects biblically based convictions about finances.
- Demonstrate proficient knowledge and applied to understand the 4H model for financial decision making.
- Analyze current debt, spending, giving, and saving situations and set SMART goals in at least two of these four areas.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of compound interest, as it relates to both debt and savings, and its effect on long-term financial constraints and capabilities
Course Assignment:
Textbook readings and video presentations
Course Requirements Checklist
At Liberty University, After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions (9)
- Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will create a thread in response to the provided promptly for each discussion.
- Each thread’s main post must be at least 250 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge.
- In addition to the thread main post, the student will reply to the threads of at least 2 classmates.
- Each reply must be at least 100 words. At least 1 citation (from the text or scripture) must be included in each thread’s main post.
- Current APA formatting is required for any citations.
Written Homeworks (7)
To reinforce the material learned in each module, the student will complete 7 assignments involving written elements of financial literacy.
- This assignment is designed to encourage the student to interview someone the student respects as a financial steward to hear about their “why”.
- If the student does not know of someone to interview or does not have access to the interview, there is a sermon provided to read with questions to address in the summation of the sermon.
- Either option is accepted for this assignment.
- This project will require the student to categorize approximately 50 sample transactions for a hypothetical month of spending and income.
- The spending summary will show that more money has been spent than earned.
- As a result, the student will need to craft a zero-based budget “fixing” the overspending for the “next month.”
Personal Financial Plan: Final Project Assignment
No.Of Quizzes (6)
The student will complete 6 quizzes which will cover all the material assigned in the Learn sections of the textbook. These quizzes will be open-book/open-notes, contain a variety of multiple-choice and true/false questions, and have a time limit of 2 hours.
