Credit and Money

August 4-8, 2008

2008 Early Registration Form (PDF: 42KB/ 1 page)

“Buy now! Pay later! Nothing down.” Everyone has heard this shibboleth of today's consumerism.

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

Schedule (tentative)

Teacher evaluations from previous Institutes are used every year as the primary tool to fine-tune the Institutes’ syllabus. Newly discovered programs and research also are factors. Changes are expected to the 2007 agendas for 2008 and will be posted in the future.

Class Agenda from 2007 Credit & Money (PDF: 32 KB / 7 pages)

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