{"id":40,"date":"2017-04-10T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:14:47","slug":"classes-at-st-olaf-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/classes-at-st-olaf-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Classes at St. Olaf College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although there is no actuarial sciences major\/concentration (yet), there are plenty of courses offered by St. Olaf&#8217;s Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Management Studies departments that satisfy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soa.org\/Education\/Exam-Req\/edu-vee.aspx\">VEE Credits<\/a> required to become an SOA Associate and take the advanced-level exams. These are the required courses to fulfill the three VEE credits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economics: ECON 261 + ECON 262 (Intermediate Microeconomic Theory and Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory)<\/li>\n<li>Corporate Finance: MGMT 281 (Corporate Finance)<\/li>\n<li>Applied Statistical Methods: STAT 272 (Statistical Modeling) + ECON 385 (Econometrics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to take these courses now unless you wish to go back to school and earn them later! Other courses that are strongly recommended to complete are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MATH 262 (Probability Theory): This course covers roughly 85% of the topics on the first exam<\/li>\n<li>ECON 121 (Principles of Economics): Prerequisite for Economics courses<\/li>\n<li>MGMT 225 (Principles of Accounting): Prerequisite for Management courses<\/li>\n<li>MGMT 380 (Investments)<\/li>\n<li>STAT 322 (Statistical Theory): Provides more in-depth analysis of topics from Probability Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Course descriptions can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/sis\/\">SIS<\/a>, and please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although there is no actuarial sciences major\/concentration (yet), there are plenty of courses offered by St. Olaf&#8217;s Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Management Studies departments that satisfy the VEE Credits required to become an SOA Associate and take the advanced-level exams. These are the required courses to fulfill the three VEE credits: Economics: ECON 261 + &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/classes-at-st-olaf-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classes at St. Olaf College<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2177,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/actuaryclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}