MATH 179
Advanced Topic in Financial Mathematics
Grades
2.98
Average grade awarded in MATH 179. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
43%
of the 276 letter grades
D, F or W
13.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
2%
6 of 7 students passed
The registrar's own records: 276 grades over 7 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 7 terms ran 2.73 to 3.27.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 11 · 4.0%
- A 84 · 30.4%
- A- 24 · 8.7%
- B+ 30 · 10.9%
- B 25 · 9.1%
- B- 22 · 8.0%
- C+ 20 · 7.2%
- C 16 · 5.8%
- C- 9 · 3.3%
- D+ 12 · 4.3%
- D 6 · 2.2%
- D- 9 · 3.3%
- F 8 · 2.9%
- P 6 of 286
- NP 1 of 286
- I 2 of 286
- DR 1 of 286
Percentages are of the 276 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), and withdrawals (DR).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOSS, MORITZ reviews ↗ | 3.00 | 3.00 | 159 | 4 | 43% | heavy | not teaching it |
| KOVACOVA, GABRIELA reviews ↗ | 2.82 | 2.77 | 74 | 2 | 38% | light | not teaching it |
| GURDOGAN, HUBEYB USAME reviews ↗ | 3.20 | 3.27 | 43 | 1 | 51% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
What the work looks like
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
- Problem sets mentioned, no number given, said by 1 reviewer
Read from 4 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 6 courses long before MATH 179. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for MATH 179 in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 170A and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 174E. Continuation of course 174E. In-depth study of risk measures and instruments of risk management in investment portfolios and corporate financial structure. Exotic and real options, value at risk, mean-variance analysis, portfolio optimization, risk analysis, capital asset pricing model, market efficiency, and Modigliani-Miller theory. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
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