JBV3000 Follow the Money Emneplan

The course is organized as a series of lectures and seminars where the subject material is presented and discussed. Between these sessions the students should work with problem solving, implementation of numerical methods and model simulations. The last part of the semester, students will work with a compulsory individual project supervised by the course lecturer. The project will involve studies and analyses of a mathematical model and a rather extensive implementation of the numerical solution of the model. This will result in a report that should be 2000 - 4000 words of length plus figures.

The report of the individual project must be approved before examination.

The course is concluded by an individual oral examination. As a part of this examination, the student will provide a brief presentation of her/his project.

The oral exam cannot be appealed.

The student can bring his/her own project report. The student is also allowed to make use of his/her own computer for the presentation.

Participation during class sessions is mandatory. Students who have more than 20 percent absence from class sessions will have to hand in an additional assignment.  Students who have more than 25 percent absence from class sessions will  not be qualified to take the exam.

The coursework requirements consist of three obligatory assignments. Two of the assignments will be related to the practice of economic/financial journalism, while the third is a discussion assignment focusing on a subject from the required reading. All three assignments must be handed in within the deadline and approved before the student can take the exam.

Each group will consist of approximately 5 students. The purpose of the first assignment is to learn about a case of financial crime and by sharing the knowledge between the groups, everyone should become better acquainted with current trends in international financial crime. The first assignment will be a group work in which students will investigate literature about a recent financial scandal involving corruption. The group will present their findings in an oral presentation lasting 15 to 20 minutes, and after the presentation, they will upload their power point to Canvas.

The second assignment will also be a group work, in which students will discuss and give an oral presentation on a portion of the reading list in front of all the students. The purpose of this assignment is to learn from existing literature relevant for the course and to facilitate learning between groups and students. Like the first assignment, the oral presentation should be 15 to 20 minutes and after the presentation, the students can upload their power point to Canvas.

The third and final assignment will be individual, and will require students to use the knowledge acquired during the work on assignments 1 and 2 to write a short op-ed analysing the issue at stake from a journalistic, economic, or juridical perspective. The purpose of this assignment is to train students to formulate complex issues in a clear and readable way designed for a general audience. This assignment will not have an oral presentation, instead, students should upload a word document of approximately 1 page on Canvas.

If the assignment is not approved, the student may hand in a new, improved version within a set deadline. In the event of illness or other documented absence for compelling reasons, special deadlines can be agreed with the lecturer. If a student fails to submit work within the deadline stipulated in the course plan or agreed with the lecturer, the assignment cannot be submitted, and the student will lose the right to take the exam.

Two internal examiners will assess the individual report and the oral presentation. External examiner is used periodically.

• Approaches to scientific computing and implementation of mathematical models
• Principles of modelling and derivation of mathematical models
• Analysis, numerical solution and bifurcations of ODEs
• Numerical methods for computation of solutions of ODEs and PDEs

Grade scale A-F

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner. At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Roy Krøvel