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FIN 460 DERIVATIVE SECURITIES MARKETS
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: 15 CRs in Finance including FIN 350
The course provides students with the techniques, concepts and applications relevant to
financial derivative securities. Topics include analysis of various types of options and strategies
of option trading, principles of trading commodities on future markets, speculation and
hedging using derivative securities.

FIN 470 CASES IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: FIN 350
Intensive analyses of financial problems relating to financial planning, asset management,
capital structure, capital budgeting and dividend policies are done viacase studies. Students are
required to analyze selected problems both verbally and in writing.

FIN 490 INTERNSHIP IN FINANCE
Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Department permission and 15 Finance CRs not counting FIN
210 The internship tends to be a full time work during summer and part time for the fall
and the spring positions. One semester hour is equivalent to 100 hours of training.
Students develop
new skills through a practical training in a career-related job. The course must be repeated
once.

FIN 492 CO-OP [COOPERATIVE EDUCATION]
Credits: 10 Prerequisite: Department consent
The Co-Op is a career related professional program available to all Finance students. It is
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.

ECON 207 MONEY AND BANKING
Credits: 3 Prerequisite:
The course covers main topics of the banking system, and the role of money and interest rates in the
economy. This course focuses on theories and current issues relating to money, banking and
financial institutions. Topics include: financial instruments and their purposes; asset pricing, the
determination and behavior of interest rates and exchange rates; the management, structure and
regulation of the banking system; the role of the central bank in the determination of money supply,
interest rates, and economic goals; the money-creation process; the effect of money and credit on
output, employment, and inflation. Monetary policy and how central banks conduct it. Other topics
include foreign exchange market and monetary theory. It is expected that students will find this
course attractive, stimulating and enlightening.