Course Descriptions

The ten-course program is broken into three core areas--three mandatory courses (Business Administration, Economics, and Law), four courses in a major area of study (Management, Claims, Underwriting, Risk Management, and Broker), and three electives from a choice of over thirty courses.

Designated Required Courses (3 courses)
910* - Business Administration
911 - Economics
912 - Law

Choose 1 Major (4 courses)

Management Major
913 - Organizational Behaviour
914 - Fundamentals of Accounting
915 - Marketing
920* - Business Strategy

Claims Major
918 - Communications
940 - Torts
941 - Evidence
942 - Conflict of Laws

Underwriting Major
920* - Business Strategy
952 - Commercial Liability Underwriting
953 - Commercial Property Underwriting
954 - Reinsurance Practices

Risk Management Major
920* - Business Strategy
960 - Structure of the Risk Management Process
961 - Risk Control
962 - Risk Financing

Broker Major
915 - Marketing
920* - Business Strategy
916* - Business Finance
960 - Structure of the Risk Management Process

Electives (3 courses)
913 - Organizational Behaviour
914 - Fundamentals of Accounting
915 - Marketing
916 - Business Finance
917 - Business Statistics
918 - Communications
919 - Computer Concepts
920* - Business Strategy
921 - Consumer Behaviour
922 - Contemporary Economic Issues
923 - Employee Relations
924 - Intermediate Economics
925 - Management Accounting
926 - Management Information Systems
927 - Operations Research
928 - Human Resource Management
929 - Public Relations
930 - Sales Management
931* - Insurance Brokerage/Agency Operations
940 - Torts
941 - Evidence
942 - Conflict of Laws
952 - Commercial Liability Underwriting
953 - Commercial Property Underwriting
954 - Reinsurance Practices
957 - Construction and Surety Law
960 - Structure of the Risk Management Process
961 - Risk Control
962 - Risk Financing
970 - Mediation
971 - Negotiation
972 - Alternative Dispute Resolution


Note

900 - The 900 number series represents the Institute's course identification.

910 - The Institute recommends that you take 910* Business Administration as your first course.

916 - Business Finance is a new course added to the Broker Major.

920 - The recommended final course for students in the Management, Broker, Risk Management or Underwriting Majors is 920* Business Strategy.

931 - Insurance Brokerage/Agency Operations. This course is deleted from the Fellowship Program .

Please check the Equivalency Chart, or, with the university chosen, to determine whether courses are available through distance learning, in class, or both.

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