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FIN472 Applied Finance Lab
Credits: 2 (2, 0, 0) Prerequisites: FIN310, FIN320
This course will be an advanced level based on ‘action learning’ concept. The purpose of this
course to bridge the gap between theory and practice as well as introducing them to the broader
financial community. The course offers hands-on experience with the latest technology, research
tools, and databases to solve practical business problems, specifically in the financial markets. It
provides the students with an opportunity to expand their classroom learning into the real world.
Moreover, this will enable them to apply their existing knowledge as well as learning new skills by
integrating use of information technology for better financial decision making.

FIN492 Cooperative Education (Co-Op)
Credits: 10 Prerequisites: Department consent
The Co-Op is a career related professional program available to all Finance students. Itis designed
to help students build on skills already learned in the classroom and acquire new ones as well. Co-
Op education is available to Finance students who have accumulated the requisite number or
more credits. The Co-Op option counts for 10 credit hours (CRs) for practical onsite experience
over a 7-month period, i.e. spanning one semester and a summer. Human Resource Management.

GEO201 Geology
Credits: 3 (3,0,1) Prerequisites: None
Major principles of physical geology covering the structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, volcanism
and other mountain building processes, the surface erosion process, and the formation and
properties of minerals and rocks. Course covers application of geological knowledge to civil
engineering problems such as landslide, subsidence and earthquake etc. and engineering
classification of soils.

HIST151 History of Law
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: None
Students who plan to work in almost any area of law, as well as those interested in the academic
study of legal history have much to gain from this History of Law course elective. The Program of
Study in Law and History offers students a chance to examine law and its relationship to the larger
world of philosophy, religion, politics, and government – in the context of studying law in a period
of time, different from our own. It is designed to reflect the present evolution of interdisciplinary
university education in our rapidly changing world. Law and History offers students a chance to
contrast our present circumstances with the past, a chance to understand the long path of
development that led to the legal problems we grapple with in the present, and the chance to see
the deep roots of the social forces that are changing the shape of our own world.

HIST153 Comparative Political Systems
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: None
This course is an elective course on Comparative Political systems. This course offers a broad
introduction to comparative politics, the subfield of political science concerned mainly with
political ideas, institutions, and behavior within states.
Politics, the distribution, exercise, and consequences of power – exists at multiple levels of our
society and in our daily lives. We experience politics in action, for example, during international
negotiations, government policy choices, in the workplace, and in our own families. This course
focuses on the formal, public sphere of politics and power relations through a systematic study
and comparison of types of government and political systems.

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