TITLE
"Curriculum Design in Risk Management and Insurance Education," Journal of Insurance Issues, Mark S. Dorfman, William L. Ferguson, and Tamela D. Ferguson, Fall 2006, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 158-178. Full-text articles soon will be available through ABI/INFORM and EBSCO. Entire article in Acrobat format.

ABSTRACT
This research note presents findings from a survey of faculty regarding curriculum design issues in risk management and insurance (RMI) education. Several course offerings may be viewed as primary foundations of RMI education, including Principles, Risk Management, Employee Benefits, Property Insurance, Liability/Casualty Insurance, Life/Health Insurance, and a Capstone experience. With very few exceptions, RMI faculty across various demographic profiles including gender, rank, tenure status, administrative experience, dissertation committee/chair experience, professional education, and institutional degree offerings generally agreed with this view. However, faculty who perceive higher levels of research expectations at their own institutions were more likely to view certain other specialized content as important in an ideal curriculum, including Actuarial, Case Study, E-commerce, Economics/Econometrics, Legal Aspects of Contracts, and Marketing/Sales courses. Identification of courses deemed fundamental to RMI education, and related curriculum assessment issues, should prove useful to strategic decision makers in higher education interested in the development or maintenance of an RMI program, and facilitating better allocation of scarce resources.