A completion to introductory problem solving and algorithm development. Taught in Java, topics include linked lists, binary trees, stacks, queues and other elementary data structures. Complexity analysis is introduced with an emphasis on searching and sorting algorithms. Note: This course will not count for computer science major or minor credit.
An overview of the accounting discipline, useful to both majors and non-majors. Includes accounting history, the uses of accounting information in personal and business contexts and the rudiments of financial reporting.
A quantitative introduction to financial economics. The topics include arbitrage pricing theory, forwards and futures, American and European options, interest rate derivatives, yield curves, arbitrage hedging and pricing, put-call parity, arbitrage bounds, binomial model, Black-Scholes formula, risk-neutral valuation, trinomial model.
Measurement of interest, annuities, amortization of loans, bonds, sinking funds and depreciation.
Introduces the fundamental concepts of cloud computing. Topics include the motivation of cloud computing, the benefits and risks of cloud computing compared to the traditional on-premises paradigm, cloud service models, virtualization of computing, storage and network, virtual machines vs containers, and architectures for cloud-based services. Students work on projects where they create and manage virtual […]
An introduction to the Python programming language, followed by a deeper view of object oriented concepts in both Java and Python, with a focus on inheritance, polymorphism and events.
Introduction to the theory of probability as preparation for further study in either mathematical or applied probability and statistics. Topics include probability spaces, conditional probability, independence, random variables, distribution functions, expectation, Chebyshev's inequality, common distributions, moment-generating functions and limit theorems.
A broad non-technical introduction to the financial sector with an emphasis on how technologies are used to support financial services. Topics include banking and related services (cash management, lending, mortgages and debt collection, payments and money transfers, trading and finance services, advising), treasury and forex, financial markets (capital markets, exchange and execution, intermediaries, algorithmic trading), […]
An introduction to problem solving, task decomposition, and algorithm development in the context of object-oriented and structured programming techniques. Taught in Java, topics include primitive data types, control structures, simple classes, strings and arrays. The course also introduces object-oriented design and the use of API's to develop applications from existing classes.