ØABED3600 Sustainable Finance Course description

Undervisningen gis i form av forelesninger og seminarer. Det legges stor vekt på egeninnsats fra studentene, med fokus på oppgaveskriving.

Undervisningen samkjøres med OAS4100.

The course assumes that the students are familiar with basic concepts of corporate finance and investment.

As an eligibility criteria to take the exam, the student must have completed and submitted the following coursework requirement by the submission deadline:

• Coursework requirement: One written submission is to be carried out in groups of 3 (+/-1) students. However, in some special cases a student may be allowed to work individually. The scope of the submission shall not exceed 3000 words. The information regarding the roll-out and the submission deadline will be given in the beginning of the semester.

The objective of the coursework requirement is to develop the skills of the students to use corporate database LSEG (Refinitiv), some statistical software, and other relevant resources for the sustainability analysis, and to write a report.

The required coursework must be completed and submitted by the given deadline for the student to take the exam.

The exam in the course consists of two parts: an obligatory assignment and a supervised exam of 4 hours.

1. The obligatory assignment (a revised version of the coursework requirement) counts 40% of the final grade. The scope and operational details of this assignment are given under the course requirements above.
2. Supervised exam of 4 hours counts 60% of the final grade.

The overall/final grade is based on a weighted average of the obtained grades of the two components i.e., 40% for the assignment + 60% for the supervised exam.

The students who wish to take the supervised exam later, or the students who want to re-take the supervised exam are not required to do the assignment afresh. Their obtained grade of the assignment shall count towards their final grade.

Lectures, practice and project assignments.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Three project assignments

An individual three-hour written exam under supervision.

The exam grade can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled exam, an oral examination may be used instead. In case an oral exam is used, the examination result cannot be appealed.

Muhammad Azeem Qureshi

Grade scale A-F.

One internal examiner. The course may be selected for grading by external examiners.

The course is based on MEK1000 Mathematics 1000,MAPE2000 Mathematics 2000, MEK1100 Physics and Chemistry/MEK1400 Physics, MAPE1300 Mechanics and MATS1500 Material Science and Engineering,