The Intersection of Finance, the Economy, and Technology
ECON372: Asset Pricing and Risk Management
Key Ideas: Corporate valuation, portfolio analysis, and market pricing
GCS relation:
Instructor: Dr. Aino K Levonmaa
Duration: Spring 2022
Total Hours of Completion: 80 hrs
FINTECH564: Blockchain
Key Ideas: Digital stores of value, transactions, contracts
GCS relation:
Instructor: Dr. J Harold Lenz
Duration: Spring 2022
Total Hours of Completion: 80 hrs
ECON101: Principles of Economics
Key Ideas: Micro and Macro Economics, Supply and Demand, Optimal Allocation
GCS relation: Scientific discovery is often backed by financial and monetary institutions. Investigators and researchers writer grants for funding, while organizations decide capital allocation across varying projects. With the emergence of billionare funds investing into the hard sciences and climate change, the underlying structure of the research economy has changed and will continue to change. Learning about the basics of the economy and how economic models are formed is the first step into understanding the market.
Instructor: Dr. Connel Fullenkamp
Duration: Fall 2021
Total Hours of Completion: 80 hrs
Writing101: H2O 101
Key Ideas: Scientific journal publishing, research ethics, research study ethical design
GCS relation: Research study design and publishing is at the core of scientific discovery. Therefore, understanding these processes is vital in order to build systems around them. Jamie's scientific writing class taught me about how ethics are incorporated into ecological and water studies. As my final project, I created a mock study to test how wastewater treatment lagoons could be made more efficient.
Instructor: Jamie Browne
Duration: Spring 2020
Total Hours of Completion: 80 hrs