Mathematics
Course Descriptions

Explanation of Course Description Items

MAT 055
Basic Math
4 credits
Developmental course - does not count for graduation credit
Offered every fall and spring semester
A basic course in mathematics with attention given the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of rational numbers. Problem solving with percentage, measurement (perimeter, area, and volume) and linear equations with one variable.

MAT 077
Elementary Algebra
4 credits
Developmental course - does not count for graduation credit
Offered every fall and spring semester
An introduction to algebra via linear expressions, equations and inequalities. Topics covered include real numbers, expressions, equations and inequalities with one and two variables, exponents, and polynomials.

MAT 120
Intermediate Algebra
GE category: AAS degree only
4 credits
Offered every fall and spring semester
A continuation of Elementary Algebra via equations and expressions of degree 2, radicals, and rational expressions. Topics covered include factoring, combining rational expressions, simplifying radicals and graphing parabolas.

MAT 129
Algebra
GE category: AAS degree only
4 credits
Offered every fall and spring semester
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 120.

MAT 130
Principles of Mathematics I
3 credits
Offered every fall semester
Prerequisite: MAT 120 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Mathematical principles and processes underlying mathematics instruction in grades K-8; problem solving, number theory, systems of whole numbers, integers, and rational numbers. Recommend two years of high school algebra.

MAT 134
Introduction to Statistics
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 154 or higher with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 160.

MAT 135
Principles of Mathematics II
3 credits
Offered every spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 130 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Mathematic principles and processes underlying current and evolving programs of mathematics instruction in elementary schools, grades K-8; real numbers, geometry and measurement, statistics and probability.

MAT 140
College Mathematics
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Applications of mathematics to real life problems. Probability, statistics, graph theory and algebra will be used to analyze concepts and applications from business, social sciences and the physical sciences. Appropriate for students whose major does not require college algebra or precalculus. Recommend completion of two years of high school algebra.

MAT 150
Principles of Mathematics I
3 credits
Offered every fall semester
Prerequisite: Placement testing or equivalent
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 130.

MAT 154
College Algebra
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
A review of polynomials, exponents, and radicals; solutions to equations and inequalities in one and two variables. Topics covered include exponential, logarithmic, and quadratic functions; roots of polynomials; graphs of various functions and conic sections; solutions of systems of linear equations. Recommend completion of two years of high school algebra.

MAT 155
Principles of Mathematics II
3 credits
Offered every spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 130 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 135.

MAT 159
Plane Trigonometry
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: Completion of MAT 154 with a grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in MAT 154, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 181.

MAT 160
Introduction to Statistics
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 154 or higher with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Introduces statistical methods as applied to collecting, tabulating, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data; frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and elementary probability and statistical inference. A basic course for students in business, behavioral and social science. Identical to PSY 220.

MAT 170
Finite Mathematics
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 154 or higher with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
For students repeating this course. Identical to MAT 171.

MAT 171
Finite Mathematics
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 154 or higher with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Math for social, life, and management sciences. Topics covered will be of special use to business administration students, but would help social and life science. Includes systems of equations, set theory, matrices, probability, logic, and other subjects.

MAT 181
Plane Trigonometry
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: Completion of MAT 154 with a grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in MAT 154, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Trigonometric functions, identities and equations; development and application of the various formulae for solving triangles and use of logarithms, vectors, and complex numbers; exponential function and exponential equations.

MAT 210
Elements of Calculus
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 154 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Differential and integral calculus of elementary functions with applications to business, economics, and the social sciences. Not open to students that have had MAT 220, Calculus I.

MAT 220
Calculus I
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: Completion of MAT 181 with a grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in MAT 181, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Real numbers, limits and continuity for functions of a single real variable. Differentiability and applications of the derivative. Introduction to the integral calculus and applications of the integral.

MAT 230
Calculus II
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall and spring semester
Prerequisite: MAT 220 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Continuation of MAT 220. Transcendental functioning, techniques of integration, indeterminate forms and improper integrals, numerical methods, infinite series, conics and polar coordinates.

MAT 240
Calculus III
4 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every fall semester
Prerequisite: MAT 230 with a grade of "C" or better, or appropriate EAC Placement Test Score
Continuation of MAT 230. Vectors, geometry, differentiation and integration in Euclidean n-space. Line and surface integrals. Theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes.

MAT 260
Differential Equations
3 credits
GE category: Mathematics
Offered every spring semester beginning spring 2000
Prerequisite: MAT 230 with a grade of "C" or better
Basic concepts, ordinary differential equations of first order, higher order linear equations, variation of parameters, undetermined coefficients. Systems of equations, series solutions and LaPlace transform methods.

MAT 298
Workshop
1 to 3 credits
Offered upon request
Extended registration available
Designed to meet a variety of needs of students in Mathematics.

MAT 299
Independent Study
1 to 3 credits
Offered upon request
Extended registration available
Design and execution of original projects under faculty supervision.

Mathematics Course Descriptions

Mathematics
Course Descriptions