Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.33 GPA, 55.6% A/AB (n=36 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.24 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=120 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Derivative Securities
Covers the pricing and uses of common derivatives including options, forwards, futures, and swaps.
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Historical reviews of Briana Chang: Students report that the concepts are intuitive, but success requires avoiding being bogged down by the extensive formulas and information presented in lecture slides.
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Prerequisites
Course mapFINANCE/ECON 300, (MATH 213 or 222), and (GEN BUS 307, 317, 656,ACT SCI 654, 655,ECON 400, 410,STAT/MATH 310,STAT 312, 333 or concurrent enrollment), or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
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- GENBUS 307 · prior_or_concurrent
- GENBUS 317 · prior_or_concurrent
- GENBUS 656 · prior_or_concurrent
- ACTSCI 654 · prior_or_concurrent
- ACTSCI 655 · prior_or_concurrent
- ECON 400 · prior_or_concurrent
- ECON 410 · prior_or_concurrent
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- STAT 312 · prior_or_concurrent
- STAT 333 · prior_or_concurrent
- declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program
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Professors
Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.37 GPA, 60.6% A/AB (n=71 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.33 GPA, 55.2% A/AB (n=174 letter grades); Fall 2025: 2.99 GPA, 50.0% A/AB (n=172 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
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Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Briana Chang: Briana Chang received high praise for straightforward lectures and helpful in-class practice. Reviewers noted her exams lacked curveballs and concepts were intuitive, though some students struggled with the volume of formulas and slide information.
BJORN ERAKER is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
BRIANA CHANG is recorded teaching in Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
KENNETH KAVAJECZ is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 60 / 60 | 2 |
| LEC 002 | Classroom Instruction | 57 / 60 | 3 |
| LEC 003 | Classroom Instruction | 58 / 60 | 0 |
| LEC 006 | Classroom Instruction | 57 / 60 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews for Briana Chang describe a straightforward, intuitive course with helpful in-class practice and no exam curveballs, though students may struggle with the volume of formulas on slides.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.27 GPA, 59.4% A/AB (n=187 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.21 GPA, 62.0% A/AB (n=292 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.37 GPA, 62.9% A/AB (n=240 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Briana Chang: Students report that the concepts are intuitive, but success requires avoiding being bogged down by the extensive formulas and information presented in lecture slides.
Historical reviews of Briana Chang: Reviewers found the lectures great and straightforward, noting that in-class problem practice was particularly helpful for understanding the material.
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Fall 2026 · Projected
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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.
The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.
8 earlier forecasts · 0.06 GPA average error.
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1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
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Derivative Securities
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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