For years I have taught these courses. Some I developed myself. I'm getting bored with academia so I figured I'd start making my slides (and maybe some quizzes/homeworks) publicly available. There are probably still some errors in the slides; and, you'll see my opinion in some places. <cough>BKM<cough>
Disclaimer: You are free to use these in an academic setting — provided you are not in Illinois. If you find these useful, just cite them. There may be errors and you accept that liability.
This is a bit unique to UIC. We require all business undergraduates to take an intro investments and an intro corporate finance class. The material here can be found in Bodie, Kane, and Marcus's Essentials of Investments or as a subset of their Investments.
Typical undergrad/MBA course in investments using Bodie, Kane, and Marcus's Investments (despite all it's flaws and its not being substantially updated for a while).
Market Microstructure and Electronic Trading
This is the course I would have wanted to see on resumes for applicants to ETL. Lots about orders, trades, and market structures; liquidity; electronic and algo trading; and, policy issues. Students from this course have typically had a lot of success at getting trading and research jobs. Again, a course that was unique to Chicago.
Commodities, Energy, and Related Markets
A course on agriculturals, metals, energy (including power), and related commodities like emissions and freight. We also talk about spreads more than is typical. I created this because I got interested in commodities and because I was surprised that there was no comprehensive commodities course in Chicago (or the US, at the time). The course has a bias toward exchange-based markets, but I have tried to add in some off-exchange material recently.
Financial Innovations: Microfinance, Payment Systems, Financial and Economic Development
This is different than the courses above. This is a reading course created for one of my students who became interested in microfinance. I said he should look at microfinance in the context of other financial innovations as well as financial and economic development. That led to me finding some articles, him recruiting a bunch of top students, and me creating a hefty syllabus to get at the topic as well as to prepare the students for graduate school -- since many of them will at least consider graduate studies.