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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2019, 04:05:57 pm »
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Why's BMS3052 worth double points, out of interest?
It's a capstone unit - which is basically trying to bring together a lot of the content that we have learnt already within this degree into something we can apply in real-life situations/scenarios but there is also a large theory component to it.  Already in semester 1 we had a double point unit (BMS3031) - as one would assume it is basically twice the workload - twice the number of lectures, including both a tutorial and a workshop each week.

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #31 on: July 15, 2019, 05:07:27 pm »
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What is everyone doing for Semester 2?  Any changes from what you had chosen at the start of the year or are you going with the same units?

Right now I have chosen the following.

Semester 2
BMS3052 - Biomedical basis and epidemiology of human disease (12 point subject)
PHA2022 - Drugs and society
STA1010 - Statistical methods for science

1 change for me, as ECC2000 won't help with my degree so taking the advantage of doing another finance unit instead.

So instead I'm doing
Semester 2
BFC3140: Corporate Finance 2
BFC3240: International Finance
ETC3420: Applied Insurance Methods
ETC3430: Financial mathematics under uncertainty


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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #32 on: July 15, 2019, 05:25:30 pm »
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1 change for me, as ECC2000 won't help with my degree so taking the advantage of doing another finance unit instead.

So instead I'm doing
Semester 2
BFC3140: Corporate Finance 2
BFC3240: International Finance
ETC3420: Applied Insurance Methods
ETC3430: Financial mathematics under uncertainty



How long do you have left in your degree, Springyboy?

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #33 on: July 15, 2019, 10:26:43 pm »
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How long do you have left in your degree, Springyboy?

1.5 yrs to go + honours maybe

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #34 on: July 16, 2019, 12:16:57 am »
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1 change for me, as ECC2000 won't help with my degree so taking the advantage of doing another finance unit instead.

So instead I'm doing
Semester 2
BFC3140: Corporate Finance 2
BFC3240: International Finance
ETC3420: Applied Insurance Methods
ETC3430: Financial mathematics under uncertainty
I would not recommend, unless you need more finance units for the major. ECC2000 is more useful than BFC3240. This from someone who ended up doing a fin major instead of eco.

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #35 on: July 16, 2019, 09:02:14 am »
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I would not recommend, unless you need more finance units for the major. ECC2000 is more useful than BFC3240. This from someone who ended up doing a fin major instead of eco.

Yep but BFC3240 is compulsory for my finance major. It's either ECC2000 or BFC3140 not BFC3240. I prefer BFC3140, just because of the number of resources available, great tutor who takes it, and the way the assignments are structured. Plus a friend got a dean's award in it last year so definitely taking on his advice to take it.

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #36 on: July 17, 2019, 12:19:43 am »
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Yep but BFC3240 is compulsory for my finance major. It's either ECC2000 or BFC3140 not BFC3240. I prefer BFC3140, just because of the number of resources available, great tutor who takes it, and the way the assignments are structured. Plus a friend got a dean's award in it last year so definitely taking on his advice to take it.
Ah that’s understandable then. I did 3140 back in 2016, I’ve a feeling it’s changed since lol. Shame about 3240 being compulsory, it’s not a bad subject but only about 3-4 weeks of it are that important lol

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2019, 07:03:48 pm »
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Ah that’s understandable then. I did 3140 back in 2016, I’ve a feeling it’s changed since lol. Shame about 3240 being compulsory, it’s not a bad subject but only about 3-4 weeks of it are that important lol

That's a pain, I know the head tutor for BFC3240 reasonably well though so I'll check that with him before we start the first tute.

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #38 on: July 17, 2019, 07:36:45 pm »
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I'm sticking with my planned units:
BIO2022: evolutionary ecology (for major)
BIO2040: conservation biology (for major)
MTH2232: mathematical statistics (finishing minor)
SCI2502: impact through science 2B (global challenges specific/req)

This will be the first time I'm doing two bio units so hopefully it's good (otherwise 3rd year will be interesting ahaha)

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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #39 on: July 18, 2019, 07:08:50 pm »
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Semester 2
BFC2340 - Debt Markets and Fixed Income Securities
ETC2420 - Statistical Thinking
ETC3510/MTH3251 - Modelling in Finance and Insurance/Financial Mathematics (this one sounds really interesting with their stochastic calculus so I'm quite excited)
ETC3530 - Contingencies in Insurance and Pensions

Bit of a switch here and there:

ETC2420 - Statistical Thinking
ETC3530 - Contingencies in Insurance and Pensions
ETC3450 - Time Series Analysis for Economics and Business
ETC3520 - Foundations of Quantitative Finance

Currently doing a winter (summer) unit in the London School of Economics and Political Science (EC341 - Industrial Organisation and Introduction to Competition Policy), which has been a great experience so far :)
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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2019, 07:33:17 pm »
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Bit of a switch here and there:

ETC2420 - Statistical Thinking
ETC3530 - Contingencies in Insurance and Pensions
ETC3450 - Time Series Analysis for Economics and Business
ETC3520 - Foundations of Quantitative Finance

Currently doing a winter (summer) unit in the London School of Economics and Political Science (EC341 - Industrial Organisation and Introduction to Competition Policy), which has been a great experience so far :)
Sorry I'm hijacking but would you care to talk more about your experience at the LSE summer school? I'm considering doing that next year haha :) (great to hear you're enjoying it though!)
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Re: 2019 Unit Selection Thread
« Reply #41 on: July 18, 2019, 08:13:55 pm »
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Sorry I'm hijacking but would you care to talk more about your experience at the LSE summer school? I'm considering doing that next year haha :) (great to hear you're enjoying it though!)

Sure!

Classes run across 3 weeks (instead of 12) which is quite intense. For econs/international relations/maths you get 3 hours of lectures and 1.5 hours of tutes every day. Law is a bit less consistent but it's normal to have classes every day as well.
Classes are taught really well but the assessments are quite complicated, but I guess that's expected for a world-renowned uni. The good thing though is that your grades generally don't matter if you pass or fail since your home institution won't use that score (they'll just give you a P or an N). Entry requirements are not too bad (for my course it was a 75 for intermediate microeconomics, this may be lower for other courses).

Living in London is quite expensive (only came here because of a scholarship lmao), and the accommodation offered by LSE at least 900 GBP for 20 days. I saved a bit by living outside but generally the experience living in one of their halls are better. Would highly recommend travelling out of London a bit during the weekends or before the courses start. Good luck!
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