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- Actuarial Analytics and Data IIACTL40012
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024
This subject aims to further develop students’ knowledge of modern analytical tools and techniques, including GLM, shrinkage techniques (e.g., LASSO and ridge regression), tree-based methods (e.g., random forests and GBM) and neural networks. It also teaches students to connect data analytics wor...
- Semester 2
Coordinator Genevieve Hayes Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Genevieve Hayes: genevieve.hayes@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Modelling IACTL30001
Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024
This subject aims to provide students with a grounding in mathematical and statistical modelling techniques that are of particular relevance to actuarial work, covering survival models concepts, estimation procedures for lifetime distributions, multiple state models, binomial and Poisson models o...
- Semester 1
Coordinator Shuanming Li Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Prof. Shuanming Li shli@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Rui Zhou Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week (commencing in second week of semester) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Rui Zhou: rui.zhou@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Benjamin Avanzi Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Benjamin Avanzi: b.avanzi@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL90010
Graduate coursework 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.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 2-hour recorded lectures. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
- 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.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 2-hour lectures per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
David Heath: dnheath@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL90011
Graduate coursework 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.
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator David Heath Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 4 hours of lectures and/or tutorials per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Email: dnheath@unimelb.edu.au
- 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.
- 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 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
- Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL90009
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024
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.
Not available in 2024
View details - 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.
Not available in 2024
View details - Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1ACTL90016
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended), Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2024
A research essay not exceeding 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 (Extended)
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours [overall total for enrolment in ACTL90016 and ACTL90017 over two consecutive semesters]. Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 30 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 30 June 2024 Semester 1 (Extended) contact information
Yuyu Chen: yuyu.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 2 (Extended)
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours [overall total for enrolment in ACTL90016 and ACTL90017 over two consecutive semesters]. Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 24 December 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 24 December 2024 Semester 2 (Extended) contact information
Yuyu Chen: yuyu.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Science Research Report Part 2ACTL90017
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start), Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024
Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details
- Semester 1 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 2 January 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 12 January 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 (Early-Start) contact information
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 1 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 12 July 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
Yuyu Chen: yuyu.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- 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...
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Enrique Calderin Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
- Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 1ACTL90013
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024
This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuaria...
- Semester 1 (Extended)
Principal coordinator Ping Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 28 June 2024 Semester 1 (Extended) contact information
- 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.
- Semester 1 (Extended)
Principal coordinator Ping Chen 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 26 February 2024 to 30 June 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 30 June 2024 Semester 1 (Extended) contact information
Ping Chen: ping.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 2ACTL90024
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024
This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required, over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuari...
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Ping Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 29 June 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 12 July 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
- 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.
- Semester 2 (Early-Start)
Principal coordinator Ping Chen 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 1 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 12 July 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 (Early-Start) contact information
Ping Chen: ping.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- 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.
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours To be advised Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Yuyu Chen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours To be advised Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Yuyu Chen: yuyu.chen@unimelb.edu.au
- Adapting to Climate ChangeENST90034
Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024
This subject focuses on climate change adaptation, and in particular its environmental, political, social and policy dimensions. It explores the ways which climate change poses risks to human wellbeing, and the ways these risks can be managed. It draws on examples from Australia and the Asia-Paci...
- April
Coordinator Jon Barnett Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 2 x 1 hour lecture and 2 x 1 hour tutorial per week for 6 weeks of teaching. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 15 April 2024 to 24 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 23 April 2024 Census date 3 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 April contact information
- Adaptive LeadershipMGMT90264
Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2024
In Adaptive Leadership, students learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools to recognize and navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments. The subject focuses in particular on how to build individual and colle...
- Term 1 - Online
Coordinator Belinda Allen Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours of online contact; 56 hours of case study analysis; 20 hours of online forum discussion activity; 70 hours of online activities, participation in simulations, and other management related analyses. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 January 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the learning platform and the subject requirements. Teaching period 29 January 2024 to 24 March 2024 Last self-enrol date 23 January 2024 Census date 16 February 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 March 2024 Assessment period ends 31 March 2024 Term 1 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Belinda Allen allenbc@unimelb.edu.au