MATH 177Theory of Interest and Applications
Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Types of interest, time value of money, annuities and similar contracts, loans, bonds, portfolios and general cash flows, rate of return, term structure of interest rates, duration, convexity and immunization, interest rate swaps, financial derivatives, forwards, futures, and options.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 32B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 177
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
1 direct requisite. Showing 5 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.