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# First Quarter

- [CFRM 501: Investment Science](https://cfrm.franco.biz/program/first-quarter/cfrm-501-investment-science.md): This course really puts the "Applied" in Applied Mathematics. The whole course was a mapping of everything I learned from coursework prior to how I should expect to see it in quantitative finance.
- [CFRM 504: Options & Other Derivatives](https://cfrm.franco.biz/program/first-quarter/cfrm-504-options-and-other-derivatives.md): Probably the purest math course from the curriculum. Derivatives pricing involves rigorous derivations (yeah, I know) and it's interesting to see how financial market assumptions become implemented.
- [CFRM 506: Financial Data Analysis](https://cfrm.franco.biz/program/first-quarter/cfrm-506-financial-data-analysis.md): The first of the more practical courses in the curriculum. Very specific to teaching me the tools of the trade. So many different ways to Ctrl+F.