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Dec 04, 2025
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FIN 240 - Managing Your Money in Today’s Financial System
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
An introduction to personal finance with an emphasis on how personal finance interacts and evolves with society, politics, and economic intuitions.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Credit Restrictions: Not for credit with FIN 130.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- identify types of personal financial products and their features;
- identify types of financial institutions and services;
- explain how and why financial institutions and financial services regulations evolved through the interaction of societal, political, and economic forces;
- identify the purpose and evolution of borrowing and lending;
- explain how and why personal bankruptcy laws evolved through the interaction of societal, political, and economic forces;
- develop a personal financial budget;
- identify the purpose and evolution of saving and investing; and
- explain how and why consumer protection laws evolved through the interaction of societal, political, and economic forces.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
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