Elements of Calculus I

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

For achieving a qualifying score on the appropriate department exam, students earn credit for this course as the exam credit equivalent of MATH 10250 . For students in arts and letters, architecture, or business. A study of basic calculus as part of a liberal education. It emphasizes conceptual learning and stresses the connections between mathematics and modern society. Topics include functions, limits, derivatives, and an introduction to integral, with interesting real-life applications throughout. Students are familiarized with the many different interpretations of the derivative as a rate of change, and the integral as a total rate of change. This enables them to learn and practice modeling in a variety of situations from economics the social and the life sciences.