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2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

School of Personal Financial Planning

 

Mitzi Lauderdale, J.D., Interim Chairperson

Professors: Durband, Huston, James, Kalenkoski
Associate Professors: Browning, Gilliam, Lacombe, Lauderdale
Associate Professor of Practice: Salter
Assistant Professors: Asebedo, Guillemette, Reiter
Lecturer: Wilson

CONTACT INFORMATION: 260 Human Sciences Bldg. | 1301 Akron Ave. | Box 41210 | Lubbock, TX 79409-1210 | T 806.742.5050 | F 806.742.5033 | www.depts.ttu.edu/pfp

About the School

The School of Personal Financial Planning offers classes leading to the following degrees:

Dual Degree Program

Mission and Vision. The mission of the School of Personal Financial Planning is to educate students to the highest standards of excellence; foster intellectual, ethical, and personal development; and generate the highest quality of meaningful research.

The school will excel as the national leader in higher education in personal financial planning, manifesting excellence, inspiring confidence, and engaging the financial planning profession and society at large.

The School of Personal Financial Planning will do the following:

  • Achieve and maintain national recognition as the premier financial planning program, attracting the highest quality students and faculty.
  • Prepare students to be leaders, decision-makers, and scholars who are highly competent, articulate, ethical, principled, innovative, and confident in financial planning.
  • Generate quality research thus expanding the boundaries of knowledge in financial planning.
  • Promote excellence in scholarly and professional organizations through faculty service in leadership roles.

Undergraduate and graduate degree programs in personal financial planning are registered by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board). The term CFP® identifies a financial planning professional who has met educational standards, passed the CFP® Certification Examination, satisfied a work experience requirement, and agreed to the CFP Board’s Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility. The terms CFP® and Certified Financial Planner™ represent the most respected professional certification in the financial planning profession.

Accelerated Bachelor’s-to-Master’s Degree Program. The accelerated bachelor’s-to-master’s degree program allows academically capable students to accelerate their undergraduate degree programs, begin graduate work in their fourth year, and finish both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a total of approximately five-and-a-half years. This is accomplished by allowing 9 hours of graduate coursework in personal financial planning to count toward both the undergraduate degree and the master’s degree.

Graduate Program

For information on graduate programs offered by the School of Personal Financial Planning, visit the Graduate Programs  section of the catalog.

Undergraduate Program Offerings, Course Descriptions & Curricular Tables

(Click on program for curricular table.)

Programs

    Bachelor’sUndergraduate Minor

    Courses

      PFI - Personal Finance (Undergraduate Courses)PFP - Personal Financial Planning (Undergraduate Courses)