UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

College of Commerce and Business Administration

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

 

Finance 199 Professor Stephen D'Arcy
Careers in Finance 311 Wohlers Hall (formerly Commerce West)
Spring 2002 Office Hours: 10 - 11  a.m., Tuesday + Thursday
Monday 7-9 p.m. E-mail address: s-darcy@uiuc.edu
5 Weston Hall Telephone: 333-0772

Course Website: http://www.cba.uiuc.edu/~s-darcy/fin199

 

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to examine a variety of career opportunities in finance. In general, the first hour of each class will involve a presentation by a speaker and the second hour will be devoted to class discussion and active learning exercises. Readings will be assigned to provide additional information about the careers presented.


To insure that disability-related concerns are properly addressed throughout the semester, students with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations to participate in this class are asked to see me within the first two weeks of the semester.

 

Date

Topic

Speaker

Jan. 14

Insurance

Stephen P. D'Arcy, Professor of Finance

Jan. 28

To Be Determined

Feb. 4

Financial Planning and Life Insurance

John Wright, II, Northwestern Mutual Life, Baird Securities

Feb. 11

To Be Determined

Feb. 18

Pension Fund Management

Meg Cline, Missouri State Employees Retirement System

Feb. 25

To Be Determined

March 4

To Be Determined

Jess Block, Strata Decision Technology

Helpful links: 

College of Commerce and Business Administration Career Services Office:

Financial Independence Calculations

                   http://www.napfa.org

                        http://www.fpanet.org                     

Grading Policy

 

Essentially all of the work for this class, except for a few reading assignments, will take place during the class sessions.  Thus, it is essential that students attend every class in order to benefit from this course.  The course grades will be based solely on attendance and participation in class.  This class meets seven times for 2 hours.  Each class will consist of a lecture/discussion for the first hour and a class exercise the second hour.  Thus, there are 14 class segments.  You will be given credit for a class segment if you are present at the beginning of the session and remain (and participate) for the entire segment.  If you arrive late (it is rude to our speakers to walk in during their presentations) or leave early, you will not get credit for that segment. 

 

Grades will be determined as follows:  

         Number of Class Segments Attended

              and Participated in Entirety                                                  Grade

            14                                                                    A

            13                                                                    A-

            12                                                                    B+

            11                                                                    B

            10                                                                    B-

              9                                                                    C

              8                                                                    D

              7 or fewer                                                      F