2001-2003 Catalog - University of Arkansas at Monticello

Arkansas-Monticello
EXSC 4806 Internship—Wellness Facility
6 credits
A 200-clock-hour off-campus working experience in a
wellness/health promotion facility approved by the
intern supervisor.
FIN Courses
(Finance)
FIN 3413 General Insurance
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Fundamentals of insurance and their relationship to
sound business administration.
FIN 3473 Principles of Finance
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: ACCT 2223, G B 2213
Introduction to capital formation and management; the
finance function and the financial environment;
techniques of financial management; techniques of
financial analysis, planning, and control; management of
working capital, capital budgeting and cost of capital;
analysis of money and capital markets.
FIN 3483 Real Estate Principles
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: ECON 2203, ECON 2213 or AGEC 2273
Real estate values economics, financing; home
ownership, rights in real property and their transfer;
problems of investment and management; regulations of
real property and brokerage.
FIN 4683 Real Estate Finance
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Real estate brokerage title closing, marketing,
advertising, financing, and appraisal. Market analysis,
property management, and real estate trends and
outlook.
FIN 4603 Financial Policy and Planning
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: FIN 3473
Analysis of financial theories and practices, within a riskreturn
framework, as they relate to the financial decisionmaking
process. Topics covered include working capital
policy, capital structure, capital budgeting techniques.
FIN 4613 Investments
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: FIN 3473
Principles and theories of security evaluations and
analysis for professional and personal portfolio
formation, including the risk-return trade-off, types of
securities, market efficiency, interest rates, and
speculative investments.
FIN 4623 Topics in International Finance
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: FIN 3473
This course covers, but is not limited to, globalization of
financial markets, exchange rates, interest rate parity
theory, international financial and capital structure
decisions, international banking and its regulation,
international financial institutions, international trade,
and international law and policies affecting financial
management of the multinational enterprise. Extensive
use of problems and short application-oriented cases.
FOR Courses
(Forestry)
Course Descriptions
FOR 1061 Orientation to Forestry
1 credit: 1 hour lecture
An overview of the forestry discipline and its professional
curriculum at UAM.
FOR 1083 Humans and Forest Resources
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Introduction to the history, policies, founders,
controversies, uses, and management of forest resources.
FOR 2071 Forest Mensuration Laboratory
1 credit: 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: MATH 1033 or MATH 1175; CIS 2223
Corequisite: FOR 2273
Application and field practice of forest measurement
techniques. Tree, log, and stand-level measurement of
forest, forest product, wildlife, and social attributes;
statistical computing and sampling methods.
FOR 2223 Honors Environment and Society
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Honors program, or overall GPA of 3.00,
or composite ACT of 24 or higher.
Course focuses on understanding human-environment
relationships. Study will include: population and
consumption, environmental degradation, development
(domestic and international), and the environmental
movements.
FOR 2231 Dendrology Laboratory I
1 credit: 3 hours laboratory
Field practice in the identification, nomenclature,
classification, and ecology of local flora in the summer
and fall condition. Emphasis on leaf and bark
characters.
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