MATH 178BFoundations of Actuarial Mathematics: Additional Topics in Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics
Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Multistate models, covers pensions, health insurances, and profit-testing. Study of probability distributions employed most commonly in actuarial theory. Beginning study of short-term actuarial mathematics.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 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
Requisites: courses 170B or 170S (or Statistics 100B), 178A.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 178B
- MATH 170BProbability Theory II
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
- MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
3 direct requisites. Showing 23 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MATH 178B
- MATH 178CFoundations of Actuarial Mathematics: Loss Models
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.