Master of Arts in Finance (MAF) / Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Academic Program 2020-2021

Mandatory orientation session for the first-year students: 31st of August

Apart from the finance courses, the first four modules have also two mandatory English courses, 2 credits each. The course assessed in 1 credit includes 14 lectures and (optionally) up to 7 seminars (every class lasts for 2 academic hours).

First year

Course	Professor	Language	Credits	Specialization
***Module 1 (1 September – 25 October 2020)*
Data analysis in Python*	Sergei Golovan	rus.	1	FIT
Financial Accounting - 1*	Elena Senatorova	rus.	1	CF, B
Financial Markets and Instruments*	Alexei Goriaev	rus.	1	-
Microeconomics - 1*	Andrei Bremzen	rus.	1	EDA
Mathematics for Economists	Sergei Golovan	rus.	1	-

Module 2 (26 October – 20 December 2020)
Corporate Finance*	Sergei Kovbasyuk	rus.	1	CF
Econometrics - 1*	Sergei Golovan	rus.	1	EDA
Macroeconomics - 1*	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	EDA
Structured Query Language*	Kirill Efimov	rus.	1	FIT
CFA: Business Valuation - 1	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	0,5	-
Excel for Business	Alexander Klyuka	rus.	1	-
Financial Accounting - 2	Elena Senatorova	rus.	1	CF
Financial Modeling	Vladimir Koptsev	rus.	1	CF

Module 3 (11 January – 7 March 2021)
Advanced Corporate Finance*	Pavle Radicevic	eng.	1	СF
Asset Pricing*	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	AM
Econometrics - 2*	Sergei Golovan	rus.	1	EDA
Banking	Petr Dorozhkin, Mikhail Shlemov	rus.	1	B
CFA: Business Valuation - 2	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	-
Economics of Renewable Energy	Vitaly Kazakov	rus.	1	RE
Financial Technologies	Sergei Kovbasyuk	rus.	1	QF
Global Petroleum and Gas Market Outlook	Alexander Malanichev	rus.	1	RE
Industry Valuation	Olga Scherbakova	rus.	1	CF
Risk Management	Alexei Goriaev	rus.	1	RM

Module 4 (8 March – 2 May, 2021)
Derivatives*	Vyacheslav Gorovoy	rus.	1	QF
Microeconometrics*	Olga Kuzmina	rus.	1	EDA
Business models	Dmitry Garanin	rus.	1	-
Corporate Governance	Carsten Sprenger	eng.	1	RM
Equity Investment	Vitaly Kazakov	rus.	1	AM
Financial Modeling for Venture Capital and LBO	Vladimir Koptsev	rus.	1	CF
Machine Learning - 1	Sergei Golovan	rus.	1	FIT
Strategic Thinking for CFO	Artem Kudryavtsev	rus.	1	CF
Value Creation in Metals and Mining	Konstantin Arshakuni	rus.	1	RE

Module 5 (10 May – 4 July 2021)
Fixed Income Instruments	Vladimir Krasik	rus.	1	AM, B
Investment Strategies - 1	Alexey Debelov	rus.	1	QF
Introduction to Marketing Analytics	Daria Silinskaya	rus.	1	FIT
Machine Learning - 2	Iliya Munerman	rus.	1	FIT
Negotiations	Marat Atnashev	rus.	1
Private Equity	Dmitri Alpin	rus.	1	AM
Wealth Management	Alexei Goriaev	rus.	1	AM

Second year

Course	Professor		Credits	Specialization
Module 6 (1 September – 25 October 2020)
Macroeconomics-2*	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	EDA
Methodological Seminar*	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	-
Credit Risk Management	Ekaterina Trofimova	rus.	1	RM
Mergers and Acquisitions	Konstantin Kontor	rus.	1	CF

Module 7 (26 October – 20 December 2020)
Microeconomics - 2*	Andrei Bremzen	rus.	1	EDA
Investment Strategies - 2	Vyacheslav Gorovoy, Sergey Syntulski	rus.	1	QF
Market Microstructure	Anna Obizhaeva	rus.	1	QF
Professional Business English	Tatiana Skopintseva	eng.		-

Module 8 (11 January – 7 March 2021)
Methodological Seminar*	Oleg Shibanov	rus.	1	-
Advanced Professional Business English	Tatiana Golechkova	eng.	1	-
Consumer Modeling for Marketing Applications	Daria Silinskaya	rus.	1	FIT
Credit Risk	Carsten Sprenger	eng.	1	RM, B
Economics of Metals	Konstantin Pravednikov	rus.	1	RE
Project Management and Project Evaluation in the Oil and Gas Industry	Dmitry Perfiliev	rus.	1	RE
Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time	Andrey Savochkin	rus.	1	-

Module 9 (8 March – 2 May, 2021)
Blockchain and Its Application to Finance	Roman Korotchin, Ignat Shapkin	rus.	1	FIT
Business Ethics	TBA	rus.	1	-
Mathematical Finance	Vyacheslav Gorovoy	rus.	1	QF
Resource Economics and Finance	Gerhard Toews	eng.	1	RE

Module 10 (10 May – 11 July 2021)
Master's Thesis

To complete a specialization it is necessary to obtain 4 credits by taking corresponding courses.

Specializations: AM = Asset Management, B = Banking, CF = Corporate Finance, EDA = Economics & Data Analysis, FIT = Finance and IT, RE = Resource Economics, RM = Risk Management, QF = Quantitative Finance.

*‒ a mandatory course

Master of Arts in Finance (MAF) / Master of Science in Finance (MSF) Academic Program 2020-2021

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