Financial Literacy

Class activities - OPTIONAL

1. Monopoly

Due today

Credit Monitoring Assignment

Money Values Essay 2

Class activities

1. Introduce ourselves.

2. Review the syllabus.

3. Discuss the homework due today.

4. Discuss objectives, expectations, and hopes for this class.

Money Script Test

Due today

Money Script Reflexion: submit on Canvas

Due next time

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Class activities

1. Introduce new classmates.

2. Review the updated syllabus.

3. Lecture and discussion on Money and Values.

4. Introduce Money Values Essay.

Due today

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Class activities

1. Introduce new classmates.

2. Review the updated syllabus.

3. Lecture and discussion on credit scores.

   1. Introduce Credit Karma. 

   2. In-class assignment: sign up for Credit Karma

   3. Tour Credit Karma together.

   4. Discuss factors that influence credit scores.

   5. Introduce credit monitoring assignment.

4. Look at rubric for Money Values Essay

Due today

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Class activities

1. Introduce budgets and money tracking.

2. Introduce Monopoly assignments.

3. Play Monopoly

Due today

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Monopoly Ledger 1 and Monopoly Budget

Money Values Essay 1

Class activities

1. Continue playing Monopoly.

2. Discuss budgeting.

Due today

Money Values Essay 1

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Class activities

1. Presentation and discussion on Financial Aid and Student Loans
   with Marie Bonenfant, Associate Director of Financial Aid

Due today

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Class activities

1. Continue playing Monopoly.

Due today

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Monopoly ledgers (all)

Monopoly budget

Monopoly reflexion

Class activities

1. Debrief Monopoly games

2. Discuss financial terms and concepts from the game

   • market systems, monopolies, inflation

   • lending, collateral, interest

   • taxes

   • UBI

Due today

Monopoly ledgers (all)

Monopoly budget

Monopoly reflexion

Due next time

Speaker 1 Reflexion: Marie Bonenfant on Student Loans and Financial Aid

Class activities

1. Financial Current Events discussion

Class recording (YouTube, unedited from Zoom)

Due today

Speaker 1 Reflexion: Marie Bonenfant on Student Loans and Financial Aid

Due next time

Financial Current Events Exploration

Class activities

1. Presentation and discussion on Investing
   with Anders Saarela and Michael Stuber, student leaders of the Finlandia Investment Lab

2. If time remains, more financial current events

Class recording (YouTube, unedited from Zoom)

Due today

Financial Current Events Exploration

Due next time

Speaker 2 Reflexion: Anders Saarela and Michael Stuber on Investing

Class activities

1. Wrap-up lecture and discussion

2. Financial Current Events discussion

3. Decide if we want to meet to play Monopoly next week.

4. Course evaluations.

Due today

Speaker 2 Reflexion: Anders Saarela and Michael Stuber on Investing

Due next week

Credit Monitoring Assignment

Money Values Essay 2