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Student leaders are encouraged to continue their growth and development beyond the Leadership Lecture Series (LLS). After interacting with LLS faculty facilitators, consider diving deeper into their courses offered on campus. Check out these great opportunities below!

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Finance 210: Personal Financial Literacy

This course is about you. You will be in-charge of your financial life. How you manage your finances over your lifetime will affect your life and lifestyle.

Each of us has a unique set of personal goals and objectives. The path to your goals is loaded with land mines that can derail your journey. Learn what they might be and how to protect yourself from them. The better educated you are as a consumer, the better and more satisfying the outcomes.

Interactive discussions are encouraged. There will be cases where students have had an experience with a particular topic or topics. When appropriate, I want students to share their experience, the good and the bad, with the rest of the class.

I think of this course as combining financial literacy, psychology, and financial planning.

Financial literacy is the encyclopedic list of topics and terminology. Psychology relates to how we incorporate behavioral economics and finance into our daily life for better decisions. Remember, you can learn all the terminology, but, you can't protect you from yourself. Financial planning is a developing a coherent program to achieve financial success based on an understanding of the implications of the choices we make.

We use an interactive text that can be accessed by computer or phone.

Richard Thaler won Noble Prize in Economics 2017 for his work on behavioral economics and his book Nudge.

Come to Fin 210 and find out what a nudge is!

Gregory A. Lumsden Trading Room and Research Lab

FIN 220: Wall Street 101
3 credit elective
(no prerequisite needed)
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Andrew Cohen

Fall 2022:
TR: 11am-12:15pm or 1:30-2:45pm
CRN: 12386, 17821

  • Approved LeADERS Research Course Designation
  • Learn over 100 Bloomberg Terminal Functions
  • Achieve a "BMC" Certification to build a strong understanding of the financial markets, foster success in future courses & improve prospects
  • Learn Investing and Stock Valuation methods
  • Evaluate news events for trading strategies
  • Utilize Bloomberg to Research investment ideas
  • Play Engaging Simulations to apply & practice Investing & Trading Strategies
  • Free unlimited access to Bloomberg, Stocktrak & Future Traders Trading Simulations
  • All Classes in our G. Lumsden Trading Room

COMM 495: LGBTQ Org Culture in the Pacific Northwest
Study Abroad in Seattle

This course will take a critical cultural studies approach to exploring the organizational policies and gendered communication in organizations. Students' experience in Seattle will include tours and interviews with organizational & cultural leaders, as well as the integration of visits to LGBTQ+ historical sites.

Scholarships are available!

Get in touch!
Prof. Lietzenmayer: alietzen@odu.edu