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Departmental Honours Academic Plans: Requirements

Actuarial Science

Honours Actuarial Science/Finance Option

In conjunction with the common degree requirements in Table I in "Degree Requirements,"  this plan requires at least 26 math courses. These overall requirements must include the Faculty core courses outlined in Table II in "Degree Requirements"  and the following courses:

One of

MATH 239 (or MATH 249) Introduction to Combinatorics
AMATH 231 Calculus 4
AMATH 250 Introduction to Differential Equations

All of

MATH 237 (or MATH 247) Calculus 3
ACTSC 231 Mathematics of Finance
ACTSC 232 Introduction to Actuarial Mathematics
ACTSC 331 Life Contingencies 1
ACTSC 371 Corporate Finance 1
ACTSC 372 Corporate Finance 2
ACTSC 431 Loss Models 1
ACTSC 445 Asset-Liability Management
ACTSC/STAT 446 Mathematical Models in Finance
AFM 101 Core Concepts of Accounting Information
AFM 102 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
CS 437/STAT 340 Computer Simulation of Complex Systems
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ENGL 119 Communications in Mathematics & Computer Science
STAT 330 Mathematical Statistics
STAT 331 Applied Linear Models
STAT 333 Applied Probability

Four additional courses chosen from

Any 300- or 400-level ACTSC course
AFM 472 Investments
STAT 433 Stochastic Processes
STAT 443 Forecasting

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