Credit and Money   

Date: Monday, August 04, 2008
Time: 8am CST
Length: 5 days
Location: Edgewood College
Address: 1000 Edgewood College Dr., Madison, WI 53711

Contact: Deb Wiese
Phone: 608-663-4243
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Cost: $225 for program registration, $600 includes program registration plus three graduate credit tuition

Event Details

During this week you learn about credit, one of the most widely used but often-abused financial tools in existence. In 2000, nearly a third of high school seniors had credit cards and the percentage is almost certainly higher today. The course shows you through a variety of speakers and activities how to teach your students about credit basics—technical, psychological, behavioral—while you also gain a better understanding yourself. A tour of Chicago’s Federal Reserve Bank includes an on-site luncheon and discussion of the bank’s role.

Academic director
Prof. Bill Duddleston, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

The major requirement for graduate credit will be: to design a program or curriculum for a semester or quarter.

You learn from this program how to teach about:
The urge to splurge and consumer credit

• Classifications of credit, costs, fees, terms, etc.
• How credit scoring is used
• How to read and understand a credit report

Budgeting in the real world and credit education

• Experiencing budgeting from a high school student’s perspective
• Money management and the wise use of credit
• Overview of the available information on credit education

Money, inflation, who protects our money

• Monetary policy
• How does the fed controls inflation
• Control of interest rates

Visit: http://www.wdfi.org/ymm/semandevents/CreditandMoney.htm for more details.

Event Sponsors

National Institute of Financial and Economic Literacy

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