2024-2025 Catalog

MATH-134 Calculus for Management and Social Sciences

A one-semester introduction to differential and integral calculus. Theory is presented informally and topics and techniques are limited to polynomials, rational functions, logarithmic and exponential functions. Topics include a review of precalculus, limits and continuity, derivatives, differentiation rules, applications of derivatives to graphing, minima/maxima, applications of the derivative, marginal analysis, differential equations of growth and decay, anti-derivatives, the definite integral, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and area measurements. This course cannot be used to satisfy core or complementary requirements by students majoring in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or physics. Several sections offered each semester.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Institution has received a(n) Math Placement Exam test result with a(n) Math score greater than or equal to 35. Or Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed any of the following course(s) MATH 104 - Precalculus for Management and Social Sciences, MATH 108 - Intro to College Math, MATH 121 - Precalculus With Elements of Calculus