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Risk Management and Insurance Major

Program Emphasis/Objectives
The Risk Management and Insurance major emphasizes the basic concepts of risk management and financial planning. These concepts are then brought into sharp focus by exploring the application of current insurance coverage to business and family situations. The objective of the major is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to compete successfully for career opportunities in risk management, insurance, and financial planning.


Career Opportunities
For those who wish to begin their career development in Connecticut, insurance is a particularly well-suited major. Hartford is widely referred to as "The Insurance Capital of the World." Several major insurers have their home offices in Hartford and the surrounding area; and several significant reinsurers are based in Stamford. Many national and regional insurance companies have branch offices in Connecticut with significant concentrations in the Greater Hartford, New Haven-Milford, and Stamford-Norwalk-Bridgeport areas.

In addition, retail insurance agencies, located in almost every city or town nationally, offer attractive professional career opportunities for those graduates possessing an entrepreneurial flair.


Academic Program
Specific criteria pertaining to admission to the School of Business Administration, details regarding graduation and degree requirements, course requirements, and course descriptions can be found in the University's General Catalogue, available by visiting the University of Connecticut Website: http://www.uconn.edu.

Courses

FNCE 221 - Risk Management and Insurance
FNCE 223 - Health Insurance or FNCE 224 - Social Insurance
FNCE 225 - Life Insurance and Retirement Security
FNCE 228(W) - Risk Management: Property and Liability Exposures

Choose two three-credit courses from the following:

FNCE 202 - Investment and Security Analysis
FNCE 206 - Financial Institutions
FNCE 223 - Health Insurance or FNCE 224 - Social Insurance
FNCE 230 - Real Estate Decision-Making
FNCE 298 - Special Topics

and one additional three-credit Finance or School of Business Administration or Economics elective (200-level)

Risk Management & Insurance Major
Finance Department
Telephone: (860) 486-3040
Fax: (860) 486-0349
http://www.business.uconn.edu/finance