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- Actuarial Modelling IIACTL30002
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Topics include exact and census methods for estimating transition intensities based on age; goodness of fit and smoothness of graduated estimates versus crude estimates; actuarial modelling; general principles of stochastic processes; Markov chains in actuarial work.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Enrique Calderin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two x 1-hour lecture during semester; An additional one hour lecture every 3rd week during semester; 1x1 hour tutorial per week commencing in second week of semester. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL40006
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL40007
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Four hours of lectures and/or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL40009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
This subject covers analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Kevin Fergusson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of three contact hours per week, consisting of lectures and/or tutorials Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Actuarial StatisticsACTL30004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Topics include experience rating; claim run-off triangles; generalised linear models; time series and their applications; simulation; decision theory.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Enrique Calderin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures and/ or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Actuarial Studies Projects Part 1ACTL40010
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Students will be required to submit three assignments of between 3,000 and 3,500 words each, on dates specified at the start of the academic year. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A series of, at most, five 1-hour meetings per semester Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Dr Xueyuan Wu Email: xueyuanw@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Zhuo Jin Email: zhuo.jin@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Shuanming Li Email: shli@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Studies Projects Part 2ACTL40011
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Please refer to the handbook page for Part 1: ACTL40010.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Please refer to the handbook page for Part 1: ACTL40010. Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Please refer to the handbook page for Part 1: ACTL40010.
- Actuarial Studies Research EssayACTL40001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017
A research essay of not more than 10,000 words on a topic approved by the Head of Department. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours To be advised Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours To be advised Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Adaptation and TransgressionENGL20031
Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017
This subject explores how stories are passed through time, place, genre and meaning through processes of adaptation. Adaptation is concerned with nostalgia, memory and the interpretation of history. In the present day, it has become a source of artistic and cultural transgression while also feedi...
Not available in 2017
View details - Advanced Aural StudiesMUSI30255
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Building in complexity from the foundation of Aural 2, a program to continue the development of musicianship through Solfège, linking theoretical concepts, reading and writing of musical notation with aural development through a range of activities in tutorial and lecture/workshop settings.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Stuart Greenbaum Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 80 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Mr Peter Hurley
- Advanced Chinese TranslationCHIN20026
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
In this subject students will learn to translate from Chinese to English and English to Chinese. The selection of texts will be limited to modern literature and to documents and news items on politics and international affairs. In their translations students will learn to focus on accuracy as wel...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Yongxian Luo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: A 1 hour lecture and a 2 hour textual study class per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Advanced Chinese TranslationCHIN30005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
In this subject students will learn to translate from Chinese to English and English to Chinese. The selection of texts will be limited to modern literature and to documents and news items on politics and international affairs. In their translations students will learn to focus on accuracy as wel...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Yongxian Luo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours A total of 36 hours: A 1 hour lecture and a 2 hour textual study class per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Advanced Corporate FinanceFNCE40001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject introduces a study of recent literature in a number of areas of financial management. Topics include real options, mergers and acquisitions, capital structure decisions, dividend policy, security analysis and design, and corporate hedging.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Chander Shekhar Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours One 3-hour seminar per week Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Advanced Dental Study 2DENT10001
Undergraduate subject Offered:January Year:2017
Year long (123 hours). 12.5 points. This subject is a continuation of the research project commenced in Semester 2 of 4th year in Advanced Dental Study 1. Students will: • establish their research methodology and complete collection of data by the end of Semester 1• meet with their research sup...
- January
Principal coordinator David Manton Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 123 hours Teaching period 9 January 2017 to 25 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2017 Census date 17 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 August 2017 Assessment period ends 24 November 2017 January contact information
Melbourne Dental School
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- Advanced Derivative SecuritiesFNCE40009
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
Arbitrage bounds, stock price dynamics, geometric Brownian motion and Itos Lemma, Cox-Ross-Rubinstein binomial model, Black-Scholes model, risk neutral valuation, forwards and futures, currency, stock index, futures and exotic options, Interest rate derivative securities.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Ravi Sastry Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures and seminars per week Total time commitment 120 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Ravi Sastry
- Advanced Design and Data AnalysisPSYC40005
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
This subject provides an introduction to multivariate data analysis in the behavioural and social sciences, including the nature, rationale and application of a number of widely used multivariate data analysis models. For each model, issues covered include the nature of the model and its assumpti...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Adam Osth Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Six-hour workshop day in Orientation Week; 24 hours of lectures, 12 hours of laboratory classes. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 21 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 3 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Advanced Field GeologyGEOL30009
Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2017
Depending on staffing and student numbers, excursion sites may include: Flinders Ranges of South Australia, where students will be introduced to the style of sedimentation and nature of deformation and exhumation of portions of the Adelaide Geosyncline;Broken Hill and regions within the Curnamon...
- July
Principal coordinator Steven Boger Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 12 days of fieldwork. Total contact is 72 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 5 July 2017 to 19 July 2017 Last self-enrol date 7 July 2017 Census date 21 July 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 11 August 2017 Assessment period ends 1 September 2017 July contact information
Email: mww@unimelb.edu.au
- Advanced Financial Mathematics IACTL40004
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
The binomial model; risk-neutral pricing of derivative securities; Brownian motion; introduction to Itô΄s formula and SDEs; stochastic asset models; Black-Scholes model; arbitrage and hedging; interest-rate models; actuarial applications (e.g. maturity guarantees, SPDAs) and simple models for cre...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Zhuo Jin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures and/or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
- Advanced Financial Mathematics IIACTL40008
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017
No-arbitrage pricing in continuous-time models. Completeness. Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing. Applications of martingales. Multidimensional Brownian motion in asset price models. Other asset price models. Pricing of path-dependent options. Computation methods.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Mark Joshi Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Three hours of lectures and/or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
- Advanced Food AnalysisFOOD30008
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017
Advanced food analysis will teach students most rapid and standard conventional methods commonly used in food analysis. These analytical techniques will include: The selection of appropriate scientific methods for a specific food analysis, physical and chemical parametersPrinciples of instrumen...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Said Ajlouni Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 60 hours comprising of 24 hours of lectures and 36 hours of practicals and demonstrations Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information