M.S. in Risk Management
Program Course Offerings for 2012

Spring Courses 2013: 

• RM 705 Risk Transfer to Financial Markets - Monday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Wei Simi
• RM 706 Risk Transfer to Insurance Markets - Thursday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Orin Linden
• RM 707 Financial Statement Analysis - Thursday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Jeffrey Satenstein
• RM 708 Financial Econometrics - Wednesday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Magdalena Sokalska
• RM 709 Portfolio Management - Sunday 9:15am - 12:00pm Cara Marshall 
• RM 790 Applied Dynamic Financial Analysis - Tuesday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Diane Coogan
• RM 792 Special Topics in Risk Management - Monday 6:30pm - 9:20pm Steve Malin 

Risk Management courses are now offered in the summer semesters. These courses are open to both new and returning risk management students provided all prerequisites have been satisfied.
Summer courses now enable student​s to more easily complete the program in one calendar year by taking two courses in the summer terms (1L and 2L) and four courses in the fall and spring semesters, respectively.  For students attending on a part time basis, summer courses also permit a more manageable course load. 

Guidelines for Planning your Course Sequencing

The best way to plan your course sequencing is to work backwards—first figure out which courses have the most prerequisites and when they are offered, and this will be a planning constraint that you will work from.

For example, RM 790 is required for all RM students and is offered only one time per year; since most of the courses are pre or co-requisites, this course will be in your final semester in the spring. Thus, you cannot finish the program in 3 or 5 semesters—you must finish in either two semesters (plus summers) or four (which may include summers).

If you are in the Accounting concentration, note that accounting graduate courses are offered every semester, so fill in these only after you figure out which RM courses you need to take.

Although the college bulletin states that RM 701 is a prerequisite or co-requisite for all courses, sometimes this course works better after you have been in the program for a semester or two, so you need not take this course in the first semester if it otherwise makes your scheduling difficult.

We will accept CSCI 765 as a substitute for RM 705, so if you like doing hands-on derivatives modeling, you may opt to take the CSCI course.

While we cannot guarantee this, generally speaking, RM 706 is offered every semester including summer and RM 705 is offered in both the spring and summer.

RM 705 and RM 706 can be taken at any point in your program—at the very beginning (summer), during the regular semesters, or for RM 705, even at the end, after all other courses (including RM 706) are completed.

You must complete your undergraduate prerequisites in the first two semesters. You may register for certain courses while fulfilling your prerequisites.  You will not be allowed to graduate without having successfully completed the prerequisites.

It is your choice whether to go full time or part time. If you work full time, you may take no more than two classes per semester.  By full time, we mean that you are attempting to graduate in one calendar year. The international student office and financial aid have different official definitions of full time graduate work. If you need to be a full time student for visa purposes, please consult with the international student office. That office has accommodated students in this program since at times, due to how the program works, it is logistically impossible to take three courses per semester.

The table below illustrates several sequencing options. Please note that there are many other sequencing options.

Number of courses    

The CFA exams are offered in December and around early June each year. Review courses are offered on Sundays at Queens College. We strongly urge you to budget time in for taking the review course and we expect that you will take the CFA level 1 exam after completing fifteen to twenty graduate level credits.