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I would suggest go take some other capstone if you want to learn about finance/have a chill last semester. Team project is all the grade depends on. If you didn't get enough experience from ICE, you can take this one to gamble on getting teammates who don't care about the materials at all (since nothing is tested individually) or who don't know coding at all and have all the excuses to do some peripheral work but not the dirty one.
Professor isn't too helpful nor takes the team issue into grading consideration. He is biased towards those who had past internships with famous quant firms, which makes me feel uncomfortable whenever he mentions "i know some of you codes better than I do".
I can't say I learned much except from the book, which is all that he repeats over during class since most people don't read it. I spent most of the time debugging the Matlab code that he writes. Wish I had written my own program in R or Python. But that's takes up too much of my personal time and is not fair.

Great class all around, fantastic professor (Prof Chapman), interesting course material, and hands-on assignments about testing quantitative investing strategies. I would highly recommend this class for the finance capstone requirement, but it is a lot of work so know what you're getting into. The class is structured around 3 projects which make up 90% of your grade (20%, 20%, and 50%) with 10% participation. These take an extensive amount of time & work and are completed in groups of 3-4. While it isn't necessary for everyone to be highly proficient in coding , someone on your team will need to be in order to run the strategies your group comes up with. But there aren't any exams and the course covers many of the practical considerations needed to run a basic quant strategy and the findings of published papers on the subject. This was hands-down one of the absolute best classes I've ever taken in McIntire. Good times, go Hoos!