Textbooks and Curriculum

Purchasing Hard Copy Textbooks

All of the ALU textbooks (hard copy and electronic) are now available via Amazon. Visit the ALU Store on this website.

The ALU Curriculum Committee reviews the topics and content in each of the ALU textbooks on a regular cycle.

ALU 101 Exam Textbooks:

There are two textbooks for the ALU 101 Examination. The first textbook is: Basic Life Insurance Underwriting, 11th Edition, published by the Academy of Life Underwriting. Students are responsible for the entire ALU 101 text.

The second textbook is: Valerie C. Scanlon and Tina Saunders, Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, Eighth Edition, F. A. Davis Company. Students are responsible for selected readings as outlined in the introduction to Basic Life Insurance Underwriting, 11th Edition.

ALU 201 Exam Textbooks:  

There are two textbooks for the ALU 201 examination. The first textbook is: Intermediate Medical Life Insurance Underwriting, 8th Edition, published by the Academy of Life Underwriting. Students are responsible for the entire ALU 201 text.

The second textbook is: Valerie C. Scanlon and Tina Saunders, Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, Eighth Edition, F. A. Davis Company. Students are responsible for selected readings as outlined in the introduction to Intermediate Medical Life Insurance Underwriting, 8th Edition.

ALU 202 Exam Textbooks:

The textbook for the ALU 202 Examination is Intermediate Non-Medical Life Insurance Underwriting, 11th Edition. Students are responsible for the entire ALU 202 text.

ALU 301 Exam Textbooks: 

There are two textbooks for the ALU 301 Examination. The first textbook is: Advanced Life Insurance Underwriting, 11th Edition. Students are responsible for the entire ALU 301 text.

The second textbook is: Valerie C. Scanlon and Tina Saunders, Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, Eighth Edition, F. A. Davis Company. Students are responsible for selected readings in this textbook as outlined in the introduction to Advanced Life Insurance Underwriting, 11th Edition.

In addition to the assigned reading materials, ALU 301 students will be expected to have general knowledge of:

  1. medical abbreviations and terminology;
  2. normal values for commonly encountered laboratory tests;
  3. basic electrocardiographic patterns and their significance; and
  4. general anatomy and physiology to the degree consistent with day-to-day underwriting, and (5) commonly encountered diseases and impairments.

Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology: 

The Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology, Eighth Edition is no longer available from the ALU.  It may be purchased from an online bookseller such as Amazon.com or the publisher.