For application information, interested students should contact the chairperson of the department during their senior year in high school. When necessary, additional part-time instructors are hired. Lectures, small-group instruction, and laboratory sessions are used to teach department courses. The Department of Mathematical Sciences is in the Robert P. Bell Building, where spacious, well equipped classrooms and faculty offices are conveniently arranged. The department has its own microcomputer laboratories, and you will have ready access to the large university computers located in the Bell Building.
Students use graphing calculators in many of the mathematics courses.
For example, people who work in the social sciences, psychology, economics, and biology need a strong foundation in mathematics.