Austin Community College
Spring 2010 - CANCELLED COURSES
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Updated: 05/27/2010 08:26:17
MATHEMATICS
Mathematics For more information about textbooks,syllabi, prerequisites, review for assessment tests, and other useful information for courses in Mathematics and Developmental Mathematics see: www.austincc.edu/math
16 Week Session January 19 - May 16
MATH 0163 Business Calculus and Applications I Lab
[0/16] 06187 Lab 003 RGC 331 MW 12:00pm - 12:50pm Staff
MATH 0165 Business Calculus and Applications II Lab
[16/3] 06188 Lab 002 PIN 610 F 9:10am - 10:50am OH Shei, Yvonne
MATH 0187 Calculus I Lab
[0/16] 06190 Lab 002 RGC 331 MW 12:00pm - 12:50pm Staff
MATH 0189 Calculus II Lab
[0/16] 06191 Lab 002 RGC 331 MW 12:00pm - 12:50pm Staff
MATH 1314 College Algebra
In many programs, students may use MATH 1332, College Math, or MATH 1342 Elementary Statistics, to fulfill their math requirements rather than MATH 1314. Check the requirements of your program at ACC and at the institution to which you wish to transfer. For more information see:www.austincc.edu/mthdept2/notes
S+ [0/36] 06237 Lec 049 DSP P104 MW 4:15pm - 5:30pm Staff
06237 - ONLY for students who attend Dripping Springs High School, Wimberley High
School, or Katherine Anne Porter School.
S+ [0/36] 06238 Lec 050 LKH 503 MWF 12:30pm - 1:20pm OH Izard, Dana
06238 - ONLY for students who attend Lockhart High School.
12 Week Session February 15 - May 16
16 Week Session January 19 - May 16
12 Week Session February 15 - May 16
MATH 0153 College Algebra Lab
Designed for students currently registered in College Algebra, MATH 1314. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0155 Trigonometry Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Trigonometry, MATH 1316. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0159 Elementary Statistics Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Elementary Statistics, MATH 1342. Both individualized and group settings provide additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0161 Mathematics for Business and Economics Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Math for Business and Economics, MATH 1324. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0163 Business Calculus and Applications I Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Business Calculus and Applications I, MATH 1425. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0165 Business Calculus and Applications II Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Business Calculus and Applications II, MATH 1476. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0185 Pre-Calculus Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Pre-calculus, MATH 2412. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0187 Calculus I Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Calculus I, MATH 2413. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 0189 Calculus II Lab
Designed for students currently registered in Calculus II, MATH 2414. Individualized and group setting provides additional practice and explanation. This course is not for college-level credit. Repeatable up to two credit hours.
MATH 1314 College Algebra
A course designed for students majoring in business, mathematics, science, engineering, or certain engineering-related technical fields. Content includes the rational, real, and complex number systems; the study of functions including polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and related equations; inequalities; and systems of linear equations and determinants. Prerequisite: MATD 0390 with a C or better or satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test taken before enrolling in ACC mathematics courses. An ACC Mathematics Assessment Test score (COMPASS, ASSET, or THEA) is required for all students who do not have credit for ACC'S MATD 0390, including those who have met the TSI math requirement in some other way than one of those three tests.
MATH 1316 Trigonometry
A course designed for students majoring in mathematics, science, engineering, or certain engineering-related technical fields. Content includes the study of trigonometric functions and their applications, trigonometric identities and equations, vectors, polar coordinates and equations, and parametric equations. Prerequisite: MATH 1314 with a C or better. A second option is an appropriate secondary school course (one semester of precalculus or trigonometry) and a satisfactory entrance score on ACC's Mathematics Assessment Test. A third option is an appropriate higher score on ACC's Mathematics Assessment Test.
MATH 1324 Mathematics for Business and Economics
A course in finite mathematics for business students including linear equations and inequalities, functions and graphs, the exponential and logarithmic functions, the mathematics of finance, systems of linear equations and matrices, linear programming, the simplex method, and an introduction to probability and statistics. Prerequisite: MATD 0390 with a C or better or satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test taken before enrolling in ACC mathematics courses.
MATH 1332 College Mathematics
A topics-based course, with a variety of possible topics chosen by individual instructors. The selected topics may include: sets, logic, number theory, geometry, probability and statistics, and the mathematics of finance and social choice. This course is not algebra-intensive, and is designed for non-technical majors. Prerequisite: A satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test. A second option is an appropriate secondary school course (Algebra II) and completion of TSI requirements in mathematics.
MATH 1333 Mathematics for Measurement
A course designed for non-mathematics and non-science majors. Topics include logic, variation, functions, equivalence, congruence, right triangle geometry, and other measurement topics. Prerequisite: A passing score on the mathematics portion of the THEA test or a satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test or MATD 0360 with a C or better and completion of TSI mathematics requirements.
MATH 1342 Elementary Statistics
A first course in statistics for students in business; nursing; allied health; or the social, physical, or behavioral sciences; or for any student requiring knowledge of the fundamental procedures for data organization and analysis. Topics include frequency distributions, graphing, measures of location and variation, the binomial and normal distributions, z-scores, t-test, chi-square test, F-test, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression, and correlation. Prerequisite: A satisfactory score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test. A second option is an appropriate secondary school course (Algebra II) and completion of any TSI-mandated mathematics remediation.
MATH 1350 Mathematics for Middle Grade Teacher Certification I
Concepts of sets, functions, numeration systems, number theory and properties of the natural numbers, integers, rational and real number systems with an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking. Prerequisite: MATH 1314, MATH 1316, MATH 1324, or MATH 2412 with a grade of C or better. Completion of TSI reading, writing, and math requirements.
MATH 1351 Mathematics for Middle Grade Teacher Certification II
Concepts of geometry, probability, and statistics, as well as applications of the algebraic properties of real numbers to concepts of measurement with an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking. Prerequisite: MATH 1350 with grade of C or better. Completion of TSI reading, writing and math requirements.
MATH 1425 Business Calculus and Applications I
Course treating standard one-variable calculus and its applications for business students, as well as selected other business applications, and an introduction to multivariable calculus. Calculus topics include the derivative, methods of finding derivatives, applications of derivatives, the integral, methods of integration, applications of integration, and the calculus of the exponential and logarithmic functions. Multivariable calculus topics include partial derivatives and finding local extrema. Prerequisite: MATH 1314 or MATH 1324 with a C or better or equivalent. Another option is an appropriate secondary school course (one semester of precalculus or the equivalent) and a satisfactory entrance score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test. MATH 1314 is the recommended preparation for students who will also take MATH 1476.
MATH 1476 Business Calculus and Applications II
A course treating multivariable calculus, linear programming, other selected calculus topics and their applications for business students. Topics include functions of several variables, partial differentiation, optimization problems and LaGrange multipliers, special methods of integration, differential equations, probability with calculus, Taylor polynomials and infinite series, and topics in matrix theory and linear programming. Prerequisite: MATH 1425 or MATH 2413 with a C or better or the equivalent.
MATH 2405 Discrete Mathematics
A course designed to prepare math, computer science and engineering majors for a background in abstraction, notation and critical thinking for the mathematics most directly related to computer science. Topics include: logic, relations, functions, basic set theory, countability and counting arguments, proof techniques, mathematical induction, combinatorics, discrete probability, recursion, recurrence relations, number theory and graph theory. Prerequisite: MATH 1425 or MATH 2413 with C or better.
MATH 2412 Precalculus -- Functions and Graphs
This is a course designed to prepare students for MATH 2413 Calculus I. Content includes algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions and equations; parametric equations; analytic geometry; and the polar coordinate system. Prerequisite: MATH 1316 with a C or better or equivalent. Another option is an appropriate secondary school course (one semester of trigonometry or precalculus or the equivalent, including trigonometry) and a satisfactory entrance score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test.
MATH 2413 Calculus I
A standard first course in calculus. Topics include inequalities; functions; limits; continuity; the derivative; differentiation of elementary functions; Newton's method; applications of the derivative; the integral; integration of algebraic functions and the sine and cosine functions; numerical integration; and basic applications of the integral. Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in MATH 2412 or equivalent college precalculus course elsewhere. Another option is an appropriate secondary school course (one year of precalculus or the equivalent, including trigonometry with a grade of B or better) and a satisfactory entrance score on the ACC Mathematics Assessment Test.
MATH 2414 Calculus II
A standard second course in calculus. Topics include integration of elementary functions; techniques of integration; integrals with infinite limits of integration; integrals of discontinuous integrands; applications of the definite integral; an introduction to differential equations; infinite series; and other applications. Prerequisite: MATH 2413 with a C or better or the equivalent.
MATH 2415 Calculus III
A standard third course in calculus. Topics include polar coordinates and polar curves; vectors and analytical geometry in three dimensions; vector-valued functions and curvature; components of acceleration; functions of several variables; limits and continuity in three-space; partial and directional derivatives; gradients, tangent planes, and extrema of functions of two variables; multiple integrals in rectangular, polar, spherical, and cylindrical coordinates; applications of multiple integrals to area, volume, moments, centroids, and surface area. Prerequisite: MATH 2414 with a C or better or its equivalent.
MATH 2420 Differential Equations
A course in the standard types and solutions of linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations, include Laplace transform techniques. Series methods (power and/or Fourier) will be applied to appropriate differential equations. Systems of linear differential equations will be studied. Prerequisite: MATH 2414 with a C or better or its equivalent.
MATH 2454 Calculus IV
This course develops the calculus of real- and vector-valued functions of one and several variables. Topics include matrix algebra and linear maps; vector-valued functions and their analysis; the geometry of Euclidean n-space; functions of several variables and their differentiation; gradients and directional derivatives; partial derivative; arc length; vector fields, divergence, and curl; Taylor's theorem for several variables; extreme of real-valued functions in n-space; LaGrange multipliers; multiple integrals and the chain rule; improper integrals; line integrals; area of surface; surface integrals; Green's Theorem; Gauss' Theorem; Stokes' Theorem; conservative fields. Prerequisite: MATH 2415 with a C or better or its equivalent.