The following mathematics courses are part of the first-year
program.
Regardless of your current ability, the department is sure to offer a
course
which will help turn your needs into your strengths.
Link to full list of 2006-2007 Catalog Listing of math courses
Course:
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MA1020: Quantitative
Literacy / 4 cr. |
| Description: |
This course stresses the role of contemporary
mathematical
thinking and the connection between mathematics and our daily lives.
Topics include the mathematics of the census; planning and scheduling;
coding theory; game theory; symmetry and patterns; logic and modeling;
and political flavor topics. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
None |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1030: College Algebra I / 3 cr.
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| Description: |
Part one of a two semester series for students
whose algebraic preparation is not sufficient for MA1032. Topics
include numerical pre-algebra skills (fractions and decimals) and basic
algebra skills (exponents, polynomials, reational expressions, roots,
equations and inequalities).
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| Semester Prerequisite: |
None |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1031: College Algebra II with Trigonometry / 4
cr. |
| Description: |
A continued study of algebra and trigonemetry covering functions and raphs, trigonometric graphs, identities and equations, and inverse trigonometric functions. MA1030 and MA1031 together are equivalent to MA1032. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
MA 1030 |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1032: Data, Functions, and Graphs Plus / 4
cr. |
| Description: |
Review of algebra and trigonometry covering roots,
radicals,
factoring polynomial and rational expressions, equations and
inequalities,
functions and graphs, trigonometric graphs, identities and equations
and
inverse trigonometric functions. This course incorporates
cooperative learning study skills. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
None |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1135: Calculus for Life Sciences / 4 cr. |
| Description: |
Topics include analytic geometry, limits,
continuity of functions,
transcendental functions, derivatives, integrals, and applications of
the
derivative in the fields of economics, biological sciences, and social
sciences. This course makes extensive use of a graphing
calculator
(see departmental recommendations for graphing calculators).
Credit
applicable only to those curricula specifying this course. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
MA1032 |
| Semester Restriction: |
Non |
Course:
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MA1160: Calculus with Technology I / 4 cr. |
| Description: |
An introduction to single-variable calculus, which
includes
a computer laboratory. Topics include trigonometric,
exponential,
and logarithmic functions, differentiation and its uses, and basic
integration.
This course integrates symbolic tools, graphical concepts, and data and
numerical calculations. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
MA1032 |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1161: Calculus Plus with Technology I / 5
cr. |
| Description: |
An introduction to single-variable calculus, which
includes
a computer laboratory. Topics include trigonometric, exponential,
and logarithmic functions, differentiation and its uses, and basic
integration.
This course integrates symbolic tools, data and numerics, and graphical
concepts, and is similar to MA1160, going at a slower pace and
incorporating
cooperative learning study skills. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
MA1032 |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
Course:
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MA1910: Exploring Symmetry Groups / 3 cr. |
| Description: |
Mathematical discovery and invention in group
theory:
transformations, finite figures, strip patterns, wallpatterns, finite
groups,
and Cayley diagrams. This course develops the ability to find and
describe patterns, to generalize from observations, to formulate
conjectures,
and to support conjectures with analysis, and, when possible, formal
proof. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
None |
| Semester Restriction: |
Non |
Course:
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MA2160: Calculus with Technology II / 4 cr. |
| Description: |
Continued study of calculus, which includes a
computer laboratory.
Topics include integration and its uses, function approximation,
vectors,
and elementary modeling with differential equations. |
| Semester Prerequisite: |
MA1160 -or- MA1161 -or- MA1135 |
| Semester Restriction: |
None |
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