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Mathematics
CHAIR: Michael R. Kelly, Ph.D., Office: 540 Monroe Hall
WEB PAGE: http://chn.loyno.edu/mathcs/
The Department of Mathematics offers offers the bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. In the future, the major source of employment for the mathematician will continue to be industry, business, and other analytical fields. Employers will be concerned less about the actual degree than with the diversity of the student’s experiences. They will expect more than a superficial knowledge of mathematics and will also expect the student to be experienced in communicating with people such as engineers, managers, and stockholders, whose activity is outside the discipline of the mathematical sciences.
Since individual courses of study are peculiar to each student, a faculty adviser is assigned to a student at registration for the first semester. The faculty adviser will endeavor to tailor a particular program for the student with a proper mixture of adjunct and elective courses.
The faculty hold active memberships in a number of professional organizations: the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, and the American Statistical Association, to name a few.
MATHEMATICS PROGRAM
There are many reasons for students to choose a major in mathematics. To meet the broad interests of all mathematical scholars, the department offers flexibility in its programs.
The mathematics student is encouraged to obtain as broad an educational experience as possible by selecting elective courses from several other disciplines in such diverse fields as physics, chemistry, economics, computer science, history, sociology, language, biology, psychology, music, English, business administration, and others.
The basic program is designed for the student wishing to have a career where mathematics might be used directly or indirectly, for example, in aeronautics, electronics, marketing, social engineering, opinion analysis, insurance, accounting, automation, management, computer applications, sales, teaching, and government operations or research.
Several minors are available to the student majoring in mathematics. Minors such as biology, chemistry, computer science, business/economics, and physics are easy to fit into the mathematics major curriculum and can help broaden a student’s career opportunities.
The departmental honors program is designed to prepare the student for graduate work in mathematics. The departmental honors program requires a GPA of 3.0 in mathematics courses and two additional courses in mathematics; one at the 300 level or higher and the second is MATH A498, which has a research thesis component.
The mathematics program may be tailored to meet the needs of students interested in industrial applied mathematics, biomathematics, or mathematical statistics.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE–MATHEMATICS
| Freshman | F |
S |
|
| Major | MATH A200 | 0 |
3 |
| Major | MATH A257 — A2581 | 4 |
4 |
| Major | MATH A204 | 3 |
0 |
| Adjunct | COSC A211 — A212 | 3 |
3 |
| Common Curriculum | 6 |
6 |
|
16 |
16 |
||
32 |
|||
| Sophomore | F |
S |
|
| Major | MATH A259 — A310 | 3 |
3 |
| Adjunct | PHYS A110 — A111 | 5 |
5 |
| Common Curriculum | 6 |
6 |
|
| Foreign Language | 3 |
3 |
|
17 |
17 |
||
34 |
|||
| Junior | F |
S |
|
| Major | MATH A340 — A341 | 3 |
3 |
| Major | MATH A400 | 3 |
0 |
| Major | MATH (A300 or A400 level) | 0 |
3 |
| Adjunct | COSC A375 | 3 |
0 |
| Common Curriculum | 6 |
6 |
|
| Elective | 3 |
3 |
|
18 |
15 |
||
33 |
|||
| Senior | F |
S |
|
| Major | MATH A410 — A411 | 3 |
3 |
| Major | MATH (A300 or A400 level) | 3 |
0 |
| Common Curriculum | 3 |
3 |
|
| Electives | 6 |
9 |
|
15 |
15 |
||
30 |
|||
| TOTAL: 129 cr. hrs. | |||
(View Common Curriculum Requirements.)
1 Students without the knowledge of trigonometry should take MATH A118 in the summer before their freshman year or during the fall semester.