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  • Actuarial Modelling IIACTL30002

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The aim of this subject is to provide students with grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, including methods of estimating mortality rates and assessing their adherence to data and smoothness, as well as techniques for mo...

  • Actuarial Modelling IIIACTL30007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide a grounding in stochastic modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work in general insurance, covering  loss distribution with and without risk sharing,  calculation of moments and moment generating function of aggregate claims, recursion for...

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL40006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL40007

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL40009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    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.

  • Actuarial StatisticsACTL30004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with grounding in advanced linear regression analysis which includes multiple linear regression, Spearman's and Kendall's measures of correlation, principal component analysis and generalised linear models. This subject also focuses on explaining the fundamen...

  • Actuarial Studies Projects Part 1ACTL40010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

    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.

  • Actuarial Studies Projects Part 2ACTL40011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    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.

  • Actuarial Studies Research EssayACTL40001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    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.

  • Advanced Art FieldworkAHIS40013

    Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024

    This subject is taught on location in a major art centre (the subject may be taught one year in China, or another year in New York, or in other destinations, as appropriate), using the social, economic, geographical and cultural effects of the art centre as a case study of historical and contempo...

  • Advanced Chinese TranslationCHIN30005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    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...

  • Advanced Chinese TranslationCHIN20026

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    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...

  • Advanced Corporate FinanceFNCE40001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    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.

  • Advanced Coursework in Medical BiologyBIOL40014

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    The purpose of the advanced coursework is to develop professional and scientific skills necessary for general scientific inquiry. The knowledge gained will foster the student’s capacity to identify questions and generate ideas as well as providing a framework for students to use in order to appro...

  • Advanced Derivative SecuritiesFNCE40009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    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.

  • Advanced Design and Data AnalysisPSYC40005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    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...

  • Advanced Financial MathematicsACTL40004

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject aims to provide students with grounding in advanced financial mathematics, covering option pricing under 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...

  • Advanced Food AnalysisFOOD30008

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    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...

  • Advanced Harmonic StudiesMUSI30281

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject introduces Jazz & Improvisation students to advanced harmonic concepts and techniques. Through practical performance activities, deep listening exercises and transcription, students acquire tools to creatively navigate highly chromatic and atonal environments as players and list...

  • Advanced Human PhysiologyPHYS30010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Advanced Human Physiology builds on foundations of second-year Physiology to provide students with a more robust understanding of some key body systems and physiological concepts. The subject will focus on integrating concepts and synthesizing ideas to tackle challenging Physiological questions r...