The purpose of the Quantitative Reasoning Center at DePaul University is to help DePaul students to become confident and critical users of quantitative information of all kinds. It directly supports the course ISP 120 Quantitative Reasoning and supports the development of quantitative skills across the curriculum. The program addresses the growing need for quantitative and computer literacy in response to the enormous expansion in the use of quantitative methods and information in the social and physical sciences as well as civic life.
Students write critiques of quantitative arguments, gather data and present arguments of their own.
The course is a prerequisite to the Science Inquiry Domain courses in the Liberal Studies Program. It provides a solid foundation upon which subsequent courses in the disciplines and the Liberal Studies Program can and must necessarily build.