FNCE 601 Financial Analysis
Serves as an introduction to business finance. The primary objective is to provide a framework, concepts, and tools for analyzing financial decisions based on fundamental principles of modern financial theory.


REAL 721 Real Estate Investment: Analysis & Finance
This course provides a broad introduction to real estate with a focus on financing issues. Basic project evaluation, financing strategies, and capital markets issues related to real estate are covered. The latter half of the course contains two cases that help students evaluate the impact of more complex financing and capital markets tools used in real estate.


REAL 804 Real Estate Law, Financing & Development
This course emphasizes housing development for sale; joint ventures with institutional lender; syndications; disposition of real property; recent legal developments; and land-use regulations, including toxic contamination and wetlands protection. There will be an emphasis on tax issues.


ARCH 768 Real Estate Development
This course analyzes the development process and describes the functions performed by real estate developers and their inter-relationships with each other. Emphasis is placed on decision-making, risk management, the functions of the various disciplines involved in the development process and in the process itself. Case study, written assignments, class discussion, and industry speakers are used extensively.


ARCH 762 Design and Development
This course provides an introduction to the role that architectural design plays in real estate development. Many factors affect architectural design, including architectural style, building technology, functional demands, social needs, and the forces of the marketplace. The examples discussed focus on residential, commercial and retail buildings.


CPLN 680 Real Estate Finance & Investment
The course provides students with quantitative skills and a critical perspective, for making financial decisions about commercial real estate and development projects. Relying on case materials, class discussions focus on how economic characteristics of the property and the local market interact to shape financial decision-making for real estate transactions.


Note: You can download the syllabus of Wharton courses by accessing the relevant department website. Use the "A to Z" directory on the UPenn website to find department address (finance, real estate).