Honours Bachelor of Commerce in Operations Research

Qualification code: 05738 NQF Exit level: 7 Total credits: 120
Admission requirements:A student must have passed Operations Research III with an average of at least 60% or an equivalent course subject to the discretion of the postgraduate admissions committee of the Department of Decision Sciences and be proficient in a scientific programming language such as Fortran, Pascal, Delphi, C or C++ and the use of a spreadsheet program such as Excel, Lotus, QuattroPro, Open Office or Gnumeric and have access to a computer and printer.

First level

ModulePre/Co-requisite
Group A. Compulsory
HONLINR - Linear Programming
HONOPTR - Optimisation
HONPR1B - Project I
HONPR2C - Project II
HONSM1A - Stochastic Modelling I
Group B. Choose 5 papers from the following
APM4802 - Continuous Time Stochastics Processes
HONASMB - Applied Stochastic Modelling
HONCS1Y - Discrete Financial Modelling
HONDANE - Decision Analysis
HONFIN6 - Financial Mathematics
HONFORP - Forecasting
HONMD1Y - Introduction to The Mathematical Modelling of Derivatives 1
HONMD23 - Introduction to The Mathematical Modelling of Derivatives IICo: HONMD1Y & HONSM1A
HONNNSH - Neural Networks
HONSIMG - Simulation

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