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Recommended Technology Section Curriculum
This article outlines a recommended computer science curriculum
for college and university students interested in pursuing in actuarial science.
The Technology Section of the Society of Actuaries has compiled this recommendation
to guide college and university students in selecting courses and to help colleges
and universities develop curriculum for actuarial science programs.
The Section suggests that about 10% of an actuarial science
undergraduate program consist of computer science. This can be obtained in computer
science classes and/or mathematics, statistics, or actuarial classes that include
computer science topics in an integrated approach. About three-fourths of this
should be devoted to programming languages. These would typically include, but
would not necessarily be limited to APL, J, Basic, Visual Basic, C, C++, Fortran,
Java, Pascal, SAS, and S-Plus. About one-fourth of this should be devoted to other
software tools such as Excel, LOTUS, or other spreadsheets, and mathematics
packages like Mathematica or Maple.
In addition to the topics normally covered in computer science
courses, the actuarial student should be exposed to problems requiring iterative
solutions, approximation of infinite series, approximate integration, approximation
of functions, graduation of data/curve fitting, Monte Carlo techniques, manipulation
of multi-dimensional arrays, and estimation of statistical distributions.
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