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Core Curriculum Application: MATH 1325 Calculus for Business & Social Sciences

Proposed Core Category

Component Area Option (CAO) A [90]
The Mathematics Curriculum Team representative, Amy Hoherz, has submitted a Core course proposal to add MATH 1325 to the LSC Core in the Component Area Option (CAO) A [90] area.

Application Documents

Course Description

This course is the basic study of limits and continuity, differentiation, optimization and graphing, and integration of elementary functions, with emphasis on applications in business, economics, and social sciences. This course is not a substitute for MATH 2413, Calculus I.

Prerequisites

MATH 1314 - College Algebra (3) OR placement by testing.  College Level Readiness in Reading AND Writing

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply calculus to solve business, economics, and social sciences problems.
  2. Apply appropriate differentiation techniques to obtain derivatives of various functions, including logarithmic and exponential functions.
  3. Solve application problems involving implicit differentiation and related rates.
  4. Solve optimization problems with emphasis on business and social sciences applications.
  5. Determine appropriate technique(s) of integration.
  6. Integrate functions using the method of integration by parts or substitution, as appropriate.
  7. Solve business, economics, and social sciences applications problems using integration techniques.
  8. Evaluate limits of functions from their graphs and/or equations.

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