Fellowship Program
Course Descriptions

The ten-credit 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
  • 916 - Business Finance
  • 920 - Business Strategy
  • 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
  • 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.