Students who need a year of calculus for medical or business school will take 111 and 112. Students who have had calculus in high school, but not enough to exempt a whole year, should take this course after consulting with Math faculty. Students who have exempted a full year of calculus may wish to take this course after consulting with Math faculty. This used to have a calculus prerequisite, but requires mathematical maturity rather than specific material. This has been taken by strong first year students who can't fit in calculus or who want something new.
Students often enjoy seeing mathematics from a non-calculus perspective.
It has no prerequisite other than 3 years of high school math. But the students usually have a little more maturity. It is not part of the MPS major or the computer, math or physics minors, so the student interested in any of these should elect another course in one of these fields. Students who have taken college math must have permission of the instructor. Designed for non-science majors and students of elementary education, it satisfies the formal reasoning requirement but does not offer preparation for calculus.