Prerequisites: comfortable with algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, and stochastic calculus.
The course covers the fundamentals of fixed income portfolio management. Its goal is to help the students develop concepts and tools for valuation and hedging of fixed income securities within a fixed set of parameters. There will be an emphasis on understanding how an investment professional manages a portfolio given a budget and a set of limits.
Ethical questions about museum activities are legion, yet they are usually only discussed when they become headlines in newspapers. At the same time, people working in museums make decisions with ethical and legal issues regularly and seldom give these judgments even little thought. In part, this is due to the fact that many of these decisions are based upon values that become second nature. This course will explore ethical issues that arise in all areas of a museum's operations from governance and management to collections acquisition, conservation, and deaccessioning. We will examine the issues that arise when the ownership of objects in a museum's are questioned; the ethical considerations involved in retention, restitution and repatriation; and what decolonization means for museums.
Required course for students in the Climate and Society MA program.
Pre-requisites: undergraduate-level coursework in introductory statistics or data analysis; knowledge of calculus
An overview of how climate-societal and intra-societal relationships can be evaluated and quantified using relevant data sets, statistical tools, and dynamical models. Concepts and methods in quantitative modeling, data organization, and statistical analysis, with applications to climate and climate impacts. Students will also do some simple model experiments and evaluate the results.
Lab required
Prerequisites: EESC W4400; previous social science course or experience in policy and administration.
This integrating seminar on science and policy-making deals with climate and environment-development issues, and helps investigate ideas and methods for analyzing problems to reduce societal vulnerability and build resilience to climate variability and climate change. In order to integrate learning, the course is structured around modules that bridge several "divides": the social and natural sciences, temporal scales of variability and change impacting various sectors, the developing and industrialized regions, across local, national and international spatial levels, as well as socio-political, economic and ecological dimensions of development. The lectures and discussions move back and forth between theory and practice, required for the effective management of risks from a changing climate. The seminar modules will be led by outstanding researchers and professionals, with deep experience in the praxis of climate risk management and will include the economics & politics of sustainable development and climate risks; climate phenomena, societal responses and impacts; poverty, agriculture and food security; managing climate risks for health; managing competing claims over water; urban disaster risk management; climate risks & decision-making under uncertainty; media and climate. Practicum sessions, in addition, are designed to help integrate learning.
This course introduces students to a range of obstacles that have arisen - and continue to arise - in the struggle to make sure that women are treated as full and legitimate bearers of human rights as well as some of the significant critiques that have emerged from this struggle. The course provides a historical overview of conflicts over women's roles in family, the economy and the body politic and addresses gains women have made as well as challenges they face in relation to economic development, military conflict, domestic inequality, health, and religious and cultural beliefs. Materials provide a range of comparative views of advances and obstacles to women's rights in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the U.S. Students will also learn about significant instruments, strategies, and movements intended to remedy the inequalities that affect women.
Prerequisites: Math GR5010 Required: Math GR5010 Intro to the Math of Finance (or equivalent),Recommended: Stat GR5264 Stochastic Processes – Applications I (or equivalent)
The objective of this course is to introduce students, from a practitioner's perspective with formal derivations, to the advanced modeling, pricing and risk management techniques that are used on derivatives desks in the industry, which goes beyond the classical option pricing courses focusing solely on the theory. The course is divided into four parts: Differential discounting, advanced volatility modeling, managing a derivatives book, and contagion and systemic risk in financial networks.
Prerequisites: all 6 MAFN core courses, at least 6 credits of approved electives, and the instructor's permission. See the MAFN website for details.
This course provides an opportunity for MAFN students to engage in off-campus internships for academic credit that counts towards the degree. Graded by letter grade. Students need to secure an internship and get it approved by the instructor.
This course will explore the possibilities and challenges of using oral history methods in the context of human rights work. Oral history can be a powerful means of documenting human rights abuses and conflict “from the bottom up,” contributing to individual and collective healing, and facilitating processes of conflict transformation and reconciliation. With its commitment to long-form, biographical interviewing and archival preservation, oral history is distinctive from, for example, the collection of testimony in a court of law or through a truth and reconciliation process. Conflict, violence, and human rights abuses are situated within the broader context of a life, a historical trajectory, a cultural setting. Oral history opens the space for voices and narratives that have been marginalized to challenge official narratives and complicate narrow accounts of conflict. Yet oral history also presents serious challenges in achieving these ideals—navigating sticky ethics in contexts that are heavily politicized; contending with the complex relationship between trauma, narrative, and memory; and confronting tensions between differing individual and collective needs for healing, restorative justice, and reconciliation. This course will explore these questions and related topics on the use of oral history in the context of human rights and conflict.
An introduction to issues and cases in the study of cinema century technologies. This class takes up the definition of the historiographic problem and the differences between theoretical and empirical solutions. Specific units on the history of film style, genre as opposed to authorship, silent and sound cinemas, the American avant-garde, national cinemas (Russia and China), the political economy of world cinema, and archival poetics. A unit on research methods is taught in conjunction with Butler Library staff. Writing exercises on a weekly basis culminate in a digital historiography research "map" which becomes the basis of a final paper
Prerequisites: Calculus
This course covers the following topics: Fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in data science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference; point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression.
Prerequisites: programming.
This course is covers the following topics: fundamentals of data visualization, layered grammer of graphics, perception of discrete and continuous variables, intreoduction to Mondran, mosaic pots, parallel coordinate plots, introduction to ggobi, linked pots, brushing, dynamic graphics, model visualization, clustering and classification.