Mathematical Modeling / Minor
Program: MAMD
Minor Credit Hours: 22
A minor in Mathematical Modeling will provide students with the tools for and experience of developing, analyzing, and simulating mathematical models as a transferable process that will prepare them to research and solve unknown problems in the future. The goal of mathematical modeling is to understand the process that led to observed data and build a model that simulates that process in order to make predictions about future behavior or in order to understand aspects of the process itself. By doing this, modelers can gain a deeper understanding of the process, conduct experiments (that would otherwise be unfeasible or even impossible to do), and predict future behavior. Students in this program will use mathematical tools to solve problems from a variety of disciplines, as modeling is an interdisciplinary activity in which two or more disciplines converge together to solve a problem.
Minor Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| MATH 12300 | Modeling our World with Mathematics 1 | 3 |
| MATH 20600 | Applied Calculus | 4 |
| or MATH 20900 | Calculus 1 | |
| MATH 30500 | Linear Algebra | 3 |
| MATH 36500 | Mathematical Modeling | 3 |
| Statistics Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Biostatistics | ||
| Business Statistics | ||
| Probability and Statistics Concepts for Educators | ||
| Applied Probability and Statistics | ||
| Statistics for the Social Sciences | ||
| Electives | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Scientific Computing | ||
| Introduction to Data Science | ||
| Programming for Data Analysis | ||
| Differential Equations | ||
| Probability Theory | ||
| Advanced Statistics | ||
| Numerical Analysis | ||
| Total Hours | 22 | |
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MATH 47500 Mathematics Research may be taken in place of MATH 12300 Modeling our World with Mathematics with permission from the Director of Mathematics.