This document discusses copulas and their use in modeling risk dependence. It introduces copulas as joint distribution functions with uniform margins that can be used to fully characterize dependence between random variables. Several classical copulas are described, including the independent, comonotonic, and countermonotonic copulas. Elliptical copulas like the Gaussian and Student t copulas are presented. Archimedean and extreme value copulas are also discussed. The document explores how copulas can capture dependence information that may not be reflected in correlation alone. Copulas provide flexible tools for modeling multivariate risks and dependencies.