ACTSC 900PhD Research Skills
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Actuarial Science
- Cross-listed
- STAT 900
ACTSC 900 as listed in the Spring 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
This course acts as a capstone on the coursework based part of the PhD program and as a stepping stone to the PhD proposal and to research. It is aimed at developing research skills: critically reading published research, summarizing and synthesizing areas of research, writing and orally presenting summaries of research problems, data sets and theoretical and applied results. The course is designed to be integrative across core areas of the student discipline.
Prerequisites
- Enrolled in PhD in Actuarial Science & Quantitative Finance
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Check it elsewhere for Spring 2025
- Graduate Calendar, Spring 2025The archived entry
- Requirements for Spring 2025Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Graduate Calendar
- Spring 2024
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Spring 2025 requisites changed (shown here)
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026