Probabilistic and deterministic contingency mathematics in life and health insurance, annuities, and pensions. Topics include: survival distributions and life tables, life insurance, life annuities, net premiums, net premium reserves.
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UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
Collegeworst professor. unorganized and uncommunicative throughout the quarter. all the exams ended up being online but they were all super difficult. would post everything he said he would late. never released the grades for anything even after grades were due. and he missed the deadline so i didn't know my grade until two weeks after grades were due.
Actually no help at all during the entire quarter. Inaccessable by any means of communication, lectures that are just him reading off the textbook, no clear criteria on grading, Its past finals week and still dont know what I got on any of the assignments in the quarter.
We had two online quizzes, a midterm, a final project, and a final exam. He forgot to post study material for the in-person midterm so he postponed it for 10 days and made it online. I'm writing this the day before finals week and he hasn't posted grades for any of the quizzes or midterm so we have no idea of what our current grades are. Hard class
Dr.Pedersen is an amazing professor whose lectures focus having all students understand ideas from basic ideas. His explanations on the topic matter is always broadly informed and above all, he cares about the questions of the students. Dr.Pedersen is always readily available, even as he had a rough quarter in other matters he shared about.
Been suffering from insomnia for a while now, but this professor solved that for me! Monotone lectures read directly off the slides put me right to sleep. Literally struggled to stay awake, only took this professor due to schedule limitations
Though class has no prereqs that relate to finance, Pedersen teaches it as if you're already supposed to know everything he does. Lectures consist of spewed out random equations and no logic/work with a spreadsheet that makes no sense/no explanation of how he got numbers. No hw to supplement, quizzes extremely difficult, no clear structure of work.