2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
School of Personal Financial Planning
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Sarah Asebedo, Ph.D., School Director
Professors: Durband, Huston, James
Associate Professors: Asebedo, Browning, Guillemette, Lacombe, Lauderdale
Assistant Professor: Reiter
Professor of Practice: Lutter
Associate Professor of Practice: Salter
Senior 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.
Experiential Learning. Students who have taken specific coursework in personal financial planning have an opportunity to implement their skills in a practical setting through participation in student organizations. Student members have an opportunity to accumulate volunteer hours towards professional designations including the CFP® and AFC®.
Red to Black is a student organization that provides financial education and awareness to students through individual coaching sessions, presentations, outreach booths, and resource referrals. There are three levels of membership: Financial Advocates (must be currently enrolled in or have completed at least one PFP or PFI class), Financial Educators (must be currently enrolled in or have completed PFP 3301/5371), and Financial Coaches (must have completed PFP 3330/5377). For more information, email Red to Black at redtoblack@ttu.edu.
Knowledge Empowering You (KEY) is a student organization that provides financial education to the Lubbock community through group presentations and individual coaching sessions at the Personal Financial Planning Clinic. Students must commit to a one year membership, have a 3.0 cumulative GPA in PFP coursework, and have completed PFI 3321 (undergraduate only) and PFI 3301/PFP5371 to become a member and PFI 3321/PFP 5322 to become a financial coach.
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.)
ProgramsBachelor’sUndergraduate MinorCoursesPFI - Personal Finance (Undergraduate Courses)PFP - Personal Financial Planning (Undergraduate Courses)
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