BSc or BA (120 credit hour) Combined Honours in Actuarial Science and another subject

Students who wish to study Actuarial Science in conjunction with another subject may wish to pursue a Combined Honours degree program. The other subject may be any discipline from the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Computer Science, or the College of Sustainability. Actuarial Science may be the primary subject (defined as the subject with the larger number of honours credits), or the secondary subject.

Students planning to enroll in a Combined Honours program should consult with academic advisors from both programs early in their studies. Students must have their program of study approved by Academic Advisors in both subject areas.  Students must complete an Honours Qualifying Examination in one of the two subject areas, a requirement normally completed in the primary subject area.  For Actuarial Science, this requirement is satisfied through ACSC 4950.03/STAT 4950.03.

Departmental requirements

Students in a BSc Combined Honours program in Actuarial Science and another subject must fulfill the requirements outlined in the Academic Regulations and College of Arts and Science Degree Requirements sections of this calendar. 

The required actuarial science and statistics courses at or above the 2000 level with a grade of C or better in each are the following:

2000 Level

• CSCI 2202.03: Computer modelling for scientists
• MATH 2001.03: Intermediate Calculus
• MATH 2040.03: Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra II or MATH 2135.03: Linear Algebra
• STAT 2060.03: Introduction to Probability and Statistics
• STAT 2080.03: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis and Inference
• STAT 2450.03: Introduction to Data Mining with R
• STAT 2600/MATH 2600.03: Theory of Interest

3000 Level

• STAT 3340.03: Regression and Analysis of Variance
• STAT 3360.03: Probability
• STAT 3460.03: Intermediate Statistical Theory
• ACSC 3703.03/STAT 3703.03: Actuarial Models I
• ACSC 3720.03/STAT 3720.03: Life Contingencies I

Choices

You must also complete two of the following courses:

• ACSC 3740.03: Predictive Analytics
• ACSC 4703.03/STAT 4703.03; Actuarial Models II
• ACSC 4720.03/STAT 4720.03: Life Contingencies II

Electives

The requirements for combined honours degrees include:

Minimum of 66, maximum of 84 credit hours beyond the 1000 level in two subjects, not more than 54 credit hours nor fewer thatn 30 credit hours being in either, including at least 18 credit hours above the 2000 level in each subject.  Grades in honours subject courses must be C or better.

If there is no overlap in required courses between Actuarial Science and your other honours subject, then the above requirements will satisfy this condition.  If the other honours subject has some overlap in required courses, you may need to take some additional elective courses.  For this purpose , the following courses can count as Actuarial Science Electives.

2000 Level

• MATH 2052.03: Introduction to Numerical Programming
• MATH 2120.03: Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
• MATH 2300.03: Mathematical Modelling
• MATH 2505.03: Introductory Analysis
• STAT 2430.03: Data Visualization

3000 Level

• MATH 3120.03: Differential Equations
• MATH 3210.03: Introduction to Numerical Analysis
• MATH 3260.03: Applied Differential Equations
• MATH 3300.03: Optimization
• MATH 3400.03: Classical Game Theory
• MATH 3501.03: Intermediate Analysis I
• MATH 3502.03: Intermediate Analysis II
• MATH 3900.03: Financial Mathematics
• STAT 3450.03: Statistical learning with R

4000 Level

• MATH 4010.03: Introduction to Measure Theory and Integration
• MATH 4140.03: Introduction to Functional Analysis
• MATH 4540.03: Applied Analysis
• STAT 4100.03: Survival Analysis
• STAT 4130.03: Bayesian Data Analysis
• STAT 4350.03: Applied Multivariate Analysis
• STAT 4370.03: Stochastic Processes
• STAT 4390.03: Time Series Analysis
• STAT 4620.03: Data Analysis
• STAT 4690.03: Computational Statistics