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Recommended Courses
Reflecting the multidisciplinary aspect of the actuarial profession, students
majoring in actuarial science are either required or strongly encouraged to
take courses from the following departments:
Accounting (ACCT)
| 2001(131) Principles of Financial Accounting |
2101(200) Principles of Managerial Accounting
Economics (ECON)
| 1200(102) Principles of Economics | (Note 3) |
| 1201(111) Principles of Microeconomics | (Note 3) |
| 1202(112) Principles of Macroeconomics | (Note 3) |
| 2201(218) Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | (Note 3) |
| 2202(219) Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory | (Note 3) |
| 2411(230) Money and Banking | |
Finance (FNCE)
| 3221(221) Risk Management and Insurance | (Note 2) |
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| 4325(225) Life Insurance and Retirement Security | (Note 2) |
| 4326(228) Risk management: Property and Liability Exposure | |
| 4324(223) Health Insurance | |
Statistics (STAT)
| 3375(230) Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I | (Note 2) |
| 3445(231) Introduntion to Mathematical Statistics II | (Note 2) |
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Mathematics (MATH): Preliminary
| 1131(115) Calculus I | (Note 1) |
| 1132(116) Calculus II | |
| 2110(210) Multivariable Calculus | |
| 2210(227) Applied Linear Algebra | (Note 2) |
| 2410(211) Elementary Differential Equations | |
Mathematics (MATH): Actuarial Science
| 2610(236) Introduction to Actuarial Science | |
| 2620(285) Financial Mathematics I | (Note 2) |
| 3160(231) Probability | (Note 2)
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| 3170(232) Elementary Stochastic Processes | |
| 3550 Programming for Actuaries | |
| 3610(283) Probability Problems (Exam P Preparation) | |
| 3615(280) Financial Mathematics Problems (Exam FM Preparation) | |
| 3621(238) Applied Actuarial Statistics | (Note 3) |
| 3630(287) Actuarial Mathematics I | (Note 2) |
| 3631(288) Actuarial Mathematics II | (Note 2) |
| 3632 Loss Models | |
| 3634(276) Actuarial Models | (Note 2) |
| 3650(289) Financial Mathematics II | (Note 2)
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| 3660(284) Advanced Financial Mathematics | |
| 3670W(291) Technical Writing for Actuaries | |
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Notes:
1.To become an Actuarial Science Major, a student must successfully complete Math 1131 with a grade of at least B or received AP credit for Math 1131
2.Required by University of Connecticut for Actuarial Science Major
3.Approved by Society of Actuaries for Validation by Educational Experience
Since financial models are utilized extensively by the profession, knowledge
of one or more computer languages and facility with a spreadsheet package is
also strongly encouraged.
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