Spring 2025, Senior Year
Professor Hye Jun Park (She/her/hers)
Link Hub
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3 - Earning and Income
- Chapter 4 - Tax
Course Description
This course will provide knowledge and skills for young adults to be active, informed, and
rational managers of their financial life. The course will particularly address the following 4
areas of personal finance. Managing money: Why it’s useful to plan one’s financial affairs,
budgeting, being an informed manager of one’s money and consumer of financial products.
Financing large items using savings and credit: Know how credit works, how to use it wisely,
and how to avoid over indebtedness. Learn savings strategies to maximize the growth of your
money. Using financial markets: What are the different ways to invest, and how to make them
work for you and your objectives (such as retirement). Managing risk: How to use financial tools
(such as insurance) to protect yourself against risk. The course will emphasize age-relevant
knowledge and practical advice, with the objective to help students make better financial
decisions and adopt better financial behaviors for the long term
Overall
General Class Info
- park1707@purdue.edu
- Async class
- John E. Grable & Lance Palmer. Introduction to Personal Finance. Wiley. 2nd edition Wiley Plus account required.
- Weekly readings of the textbook (not scored)
- Weekly lecture notes (this counts as attendance, look at these)
- Weekly videos (not mandatory but recommended)
- Weekly activities (required, participation activities)
- Discussions via Brightspace
- 3 quizzes throughout semester
- Final exam online containing all chapters questions
- NO LATE SUBMISSIONS EVER
