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HONORS SPECIALIZATION IN FINANCIAL MODELLING

Admission Requirements
Completion of first-year requirements with no failures. Students must have an average of at least 70% in 3.0 principal courses, including: (Calculus 1000A/B or Calculus 1100A/B), and Calculus 1501A/B or (Calculus 1301A/B with a mark of at least 85%)), plus 2.0 additional principal courses, with no mark less than 60% in any of the 3.0 principal courses.  Linear Algebra 1600A/B or Applied Mathematics 1411A/B, with a mark of at least 60%, is normally taken in Year 1. If not taken in Year 1, it must be completed in the first term of Year 2.

Recommended (but not required) first year courses:  Economics 1021A/B and Economics 1022A/B, Philosophy 1200, Computer Science 1026A/B and/or Computer Science 1027A/B

Please note: Applied Mathematics 1413 may be substituted for the 1.0 Calculus course requirement.

Module
9.5 courses:

4.0 courses: Statistical Sciences 2857A/B or the former 2657A, Statistical Sciences 2858A/B, 2864A/B, 3520A/B or the former 4520A/B, Statistical Sciences 3657A/B3858A/B, 4521F/G, 4861A/B or the former 3861A/B.
1.5 courses: Actuarial Science 2553A/B, 2555A/B, 2557A/B.
3.5 coursesCalculus 2402A/B, Applied Mathematics 2503A/B, 2811B, 2813B, 3815A/B, 3613B, 3817A/B*.
0.5 courses from: Applied Mathematics 4613A/B** or Applied Mathematics 4617A/B*.

A student who has already taken Calculus 2502A/B may combine it with Mathematics 2123A/B as a substitute for Calculus 2402A/B.

* May be offered only in odd-numbered academic years.
** May be offered only in even-numbered academic years.

Academic Calendar 2009 FACULTIES FACULTY OF SCIENCE, including BMSc APPLIED MATHEMATICS HONORS SPECIALIZATION IN FINANCIAL MODELLING
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