Amended Mathematics Course Description
Course Descriptions
Mathematical Sciences
Amended course descriptions submitted by Yi Cheng 05/13/2014
- changes made are in bold italic or crossout
- MATH-M 403 Introduction to Modern Algebra 1 (3 cr.)
P: MATH-M 301 and MATH-M 391 MATH-M 347
Study of groups, rings, field extensions, with applications to linear transformations. I (even years)
- MATH-M 420 Metric Space Topology (3 cr.)
P: MATH-M 391 MATH-M 347
Topology of Euclidean and metric spaces. Limits and continuity. Topological properties of metric spaces, including separation properties, connectedness, and compactness. Complete metric spaces. Elementary general topology.
- MATH-M 436 Introduction to Geometries (3cr.)
P: MATH-M 391 MATH-M 347. R: MATH-M 403
Non-Euclidean geometry, axiom systems. Plane projective geometry, Desarguesian planes, perspectivities, coordinates in the real projective plane. The group of projective transformations and subgeometries corresponding to subgroups. Models for geometries. Circular transformations.
HPER Course Description
- HPER-R 271 Dynamics of Outdoor Recreation (3 cr.)
Philosophical orientation to the field of outdoor recreation; camping, outdoor education, and natural resource management. Emphasis on programs of federal, state, local agencies and private enterprise. Trends, resources, economic and social values, management approaches, ecological and educational implications and goals, ethics, and professional opportunities.