Drop deadlines and the Bursar's Office refund schedule are unique during the Summer Quarter.
The following refund schedule will apply to students enrolled in courses for Summer 2008:
* Students who withdraw from the University or drop courses by the end of the day of the second class meeting will be eligible for 100% tuition refund, less any applicable fees.
* Students who withdraw from the University or drop courses by the end of the day of the third class meeting will be eligible for a 50% tuition refund, less any applicable fees.
High-tech journalist and SCU MBA alum Mike Malone will be on campus Tuesday, May 6, 2008 to participate in the President's Speaker Series. He will also be available for a free informal Q&A with students and faculty at 4:00 p.m. in Daly Science 207. We hope you will be able to join us for this special opportunity.
Is the GBP Office doing great work? Could we improve in some areas? Please take 10 minutes to let us know how we're doing by completing the Annual Student Satisfaction Survey. A link to the survey was sent to SCU e-mail addressses on Monday, April 14th from GBPstudentlife@scu.edu.
All students who complete the survey by Monday, April 28th at 5:30 p.m. will be entered to win one of several $50 gift cards from Barnes & Noble. Where else could you make $50 in 10 minutes?
The survey is strictly confidential and your name and e-mail address will never be associated with the results.
MBA students interested in pursuing a Finance Concentration are invited to speak with Professor Meir Statman about courses and career paths. Professor Statman is the Faculty Coordinator for the Finance Concentration and can be reached at 408-554-4147 or mstatman@scu.edu.
Registration for the Summer 2008 quarter will begin Monday, April 21st. Individual registration appointments will be viewable in eCampus beginning Friday, April 11th.
The Open Enrollment period for Summer 2008 will begin Monday, April 28th.
The Spring 2008 quarter will kick off on Monday, March 31st with the start of classes and the quarterly Leavey Lecture. The upcoming Leavey Lecture will feature a conversational format and Jen-Hsun Huang, Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at NVIDIA.
The Leavey Lecture will be held in the California Mission Room in the Benson Center basement from 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm and all Graduate Business students are strongly encouraged to attend.
Due to the Leavey Lecture, classes will operate on the following alternate class schedule on March 31st.
5:30 pm classes will be held from 5:30 - 6:20 pm
7:05 pm classes will be held from 8:00 - 8:50 pm
8:30 pm classes will be held from 9:00 - 9:50 pm
Waitlists for the Spring 2008 quarter will be purged Sunday, March 30th in preparation for the start of classes on March 31st.
Once the waitlists are deleted, the drop and add period will continue in eCampus through Sunday, April 6th. The last day to add a class for the Spring 2008 quarter and/or drop a class and still be eligible for 100% tuition refund (less the drop fee) is Sunday, April 6th.
Friday, March 21 is an Administrative Holiday at SCU. The GBP Office and other campus offices will be closed Friday, March 21 and re-open Monday, March 24.
Students planning to graduate in September 2008 who wish to participate in June 2008 commencement festivities must submit an online Petition to Graduate no later than March 15th. Students who submit after this deadline will not receive the Event Planning Office's commencement mailing and will miss the opportunity for their names to be listed in the June 2008 SCU Commencement Book.
The deadline to submit graduation petitions for June 2008 was February 15th.
MBA students who have taken ACTG 301 as their first required accounting course may take ACTG 302 as their second required accounting course. ACTG 311 should be viewed as an advanced managerial accounting course.
For all students beginning the program in Fall 2007 or later, the required accounting course sequence is ACTG 300 and ACTG 302.
The last day to submit an Equivalency Exam registration form for the March 4th test date is Tuesday, February 26th. This test date is for new students beginning the MBA/MSIS program in Spring 2008 ONLY.
Students beginning the program in Winter 2008 may sit for Equivalency Exams on April 8th.
Dewar's Tuition Insurance could save you thousands of dollars in the event that an illness or accident makes it necessary for you to withdraw from classes after the 100% refund deadline.
Applications for the Spring 2008 quarter are due March 31st.
MGMT 711, Managing Global Teams, is a new 1-unit course that has been added to the Spring 2008 schedule.
The class will be held from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on April 5th and April 26th and be taught by Linda Alepin and Marian Stetson-Rodriguez. Interested students may register through eCampus.
Course Description
In today's global economy, being able to lead teams across distance, time zones, and cultures is an essential skill for every manager. The quality of team interactions and the speed with which teams form and perform can determine the success or failure of a project and, in the case of small organizations, even the company.This course teaches how high performing teams are formed, the typical process that teams experience in executing a project, and how to manage through that process to successful project completion. Prerequisites: MGMT 501
FNCE 696 - Mathematical Finance Professors Sanjiv Das (Finance) and Dan Ostrov (Mathematics)
Course Description
Mathematical Finance is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field that involves mathematics and models for financial markets. Finance has become an increasingly quantitative discipline, and financial institutions are hiring graduates in finance, economics, mathematics, physics, and engineering. A solid mathematical and financial foundation is necessary to understand new paradigms in finance, and employers are also looking for graduates trained in both disciplines, with particular emphasis on modeling ability. This course will comprise an immersion into the mathematics and models of modern finance, with an emphasis on conceptual and mathematical understanding, as well as building and implementing models. It will be technology dependent since computers are essential to solving problems in this field.
Objectives
1. Conceptual: Learn the ideas and intuition for a range of models that are widely used in finance today.
2. Technical: Learn tools for mathematical modeling using mathematics and software, such that one may implement the chosen conceptual framework. To fortify the learning in finance classes in the business school with mathematical content that permeates many aspects of modern mathematical finance. To develop required skills in the following areas: Probability, Calculus, Stochastic Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Optimization Theory.
3. Judgmental: Learn when it is best to apply the appropriate conceptual framework and tools to different financial problems and settings.
4. The course is suited to students in the business school with quantitative backgrounds who are interested in delving deeper into the mathematical aspects of these subjects.
5. To develop the ability to read research articles in the area of Mathematical Finance.
6. To develop the ability to build software to implement mathematical finance models.
Prerequisites
Students will need to take FNCE 451 and FNCE 455 prior to enrolling in FNCE 696. Not required, but recommended, are previous courses in linear algebra and multivariate calculus.
Textbooks
These are recommended - we do not require a mandatory text.
* Baz, Jamil., and George Chacko. “Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications and Mathematics. Cambridge University Press.
* Neftci, Salih. “An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives”, Academic Press.
* Joshi, Mark. “The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance”, Cambridge University Press.
Registration for the Spring 2008 quarter will begin Monday, February 4th. Individual registration appointments will be viewable in eCampus beginning Friday, January 25th.
In order to register, all registration holds must be cleared by the appropriate office by 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 1st.
Open enrollment will begin Tuesday, February 19th.
Students interested in enrolling in MGMT 619 during the Spring 2008 quarter must submit an online Capstone Petition by January 16th. Students will be contacted regarding their eligibility to enroll in MGMT 619 prior to Spring 2008 registration.
The last day to drop a course for Winter 2008 and be eligible for a full tuition refund less the drop fee is Sunday, January 13th. In order to adjust your schedule, all holds must be cleared by the appropriate office on campus by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 11th.
January 13th is also the last day to add a course for Winter 2008.
The Winter 2008 Leavey Lecture will be held Tuesday, January 8th in the Mayer Theater. In order that all Graduate Business students may attend, classes on January 8th will meet according to the following alternate schedule:
