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Spring 2027

4,369 courses

Study of the market for corporate control including mergers and tender offers, covering motives, impacts on stakeholders, laws, and strategies.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Applied Security Analysis and Investment Management II involves managing an actual investment portfolio, conducting security analysis, implementing strategies, and reporting performance and diagnostics to trustees.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Introduction to financial management of firms and investment decision making, emphasizing theory and practice across securities markets, capital budgeting, and asset valuation.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Covers theory and practice of firm financial management, including capital budgeting, valuation, capital structure, dividend policy, cost of capital, and M&A.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Derivative Securities: Theory and Practice covers pricing and uses of options, forwards, futures, and ETFs, emphasizing portfolio trading via an online platform with mathematical and statistical analysis.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Analysis of Fixed Income Securities covers fixed income securities and derivatives, asset-backed/mortgage-backed securities, pricing and portfolio strategies, and term structure models.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Entrepreneurial Finance covers valuation methods and practical tools for making financing decisions in highly uncertain startup environments.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Examines finance career pathways, current skills, and practices while developing career tools and professional communication abilities.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Individual work suited to the needs of graduate students may be arranged both during regular sessions and the intersession periods.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2024–Spring 2024 · limited sample

Ph.D. seminar offering intensive study and critical examination of recent empirical and theoretical investment literature.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2025 · limited sample

Seminar-workshop focused on generating original finance research for PhD dissertations and academic publication.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sample

Advanced Topics Seminar for Finance PhD students discussing current and emerging interests in financial economics, analyzing open questions and new methodologies.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Multinational Business Finance applies financial theory to multinational operations, covering the international financial environment, capital flows, foreign exchange management, hedging, and multinational capital budgeting.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Multinational Business Finance covers theory applied to multinational firms, including foreign investment analysis, working capital, and international monetary affairs.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Introduction to Folklore surveys US and global traditions, examining how beliefs, songs, stories, sayings, dances, festivals, and artifacts address identity, authenticity, and authority.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · B. Marcus Cederstrom

The workload included a few papers and a final project, which students found to be manageable.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

The Folk Tale explores types of heroes, social functions, and tellers through tales from four cultures.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Thomas Dubois

The course was described as easy, with test questions provided in advance and notes permitted during exams.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sample

Explores horror as a cultural phenomenon representing national angst, analyzing narratives and their cultural context.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2025–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Intermediate course exploring various topics in folklore, folklife, myth, foodways, or music. Students synthesize information and communicate via essays and presentations.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026

An introduction to folk cultural groups and folklore forms of Wisconsin, covering cultural activities and the history’s impact on the present.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2023–Spring 2026 · limited sample

Advanced exploration of folklore, folklife, myth, foodways, or music. Students develop communication skills through essays, presentations, and critical analysis of folklore theories.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2023 · limited sample

Examines Upper Midwest folklore through intersections of immigration and indigeneity to understand regional history and vernacular expressions.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2026–Spring 2026 · limited sample

This course combines a fieldwork practicum with scrutiny of how folklore is documented and presented publicly.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Langston Wilkins

One student noted that the volume of assigned readings was high, leading them and others to stop completing the materials fully or in depth during class.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2024–Fall 2024 · limited sample

Explores the development of the vampire legend in folklore, literature, cinema, television, and popular culture in relation to colonization, race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Benjamin Mier-Cruz

There was lots of material, though attendance was required for some graded assignments and extra credit options.

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2023–Spring 2026

An examination of mythology, literature, ritual, and religion from Nordic areas and Scandinavia, focusing on pre-Christian beliefs and medieval folklore.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Scott Mellor

The course required heavy reading and assignments, with grades often dependent on essays that students described as difficult to master.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025

Introductory ethnomusicology course exploring global musics beyond standard music history through active engagement in larger world contexts.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Erin Brooks

There was almost no homework, and students found that simply showing up to class and preparing for each midterm was sufficient to achieve a good grade.

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2025

Seminar in ethnomusicology covering melodic typology, scale/tuning systems, mode, rhythm, ornamentation, improvisation, composition traditions, notation, and music's social function.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2024–Spring 2026 · limited sample

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