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First-Year applicants must submit:
Official secondary school credentials with certified English translations when necessary
Transfer and Post-baccalaureate applicants must submit:
Official credentials from all postsecondary institutions attended, even if you do not expect to transfer credit. Only transcripts issued within the last year will be accepted.
Transfer applicants with fewer than 45 transferable quarter (30 semester) credits must also submit official secondary school credentials with certified English translations when necessary
TOEFL: Minimum Score: 79 (iBT) or 550 (paper-based).
IELTS: Minimum Score: 6.5
Duolingo: The Duolingo English Test is an online English proficiency test that can be taken in under an hour for $49. The test requires a computer with a camera, audio and reliable internet. Results are sent within 48 hours and shared with the schools you select for free. Score: 105 or higher
Grades: Earn at least a "B" or 3.0 in two college-level English composition courses at a U.S. college/university. Students with these grades are NOT required to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores.
“Mathematics reveals hidden patterns that help us understand the world around us. Now much more than arithmetic and geometry, Mathematics today is a diverse discipline that deals with data, measurements, and observations from science; with inference, deduction, and proof; and with mathematical models of natural phenomena, of human behavior, and of social systems.
As a practical matter, Mathematics is a science of pattern and order. Its domain is not molecules or cells, but numbers, chance, form, algorithms, and change. As a science of abstract objects, Mathematics relies on logic rather than on observation as its standard of truth, yet employs observation, simulation, and even experimentation as means of discovering truth.” From: Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (c) 1989 National Academy of Sciences.
Why Consider an Applied Mathematics Major?
The special role of Mathematics in education is a consequence of its universal applicability. The results of Mathematics-theorems and theories-are both significant and useful; the best results are also elegant and deep. Through its theorems, Mathematics offers science both a foundation of truth and a standard of certainty.
In addition to theorems and theories, Mathematics offers distinctive modes of thought which are both versatile and powerful, including modeling, abstraction, optimization, logical analysis, inference from data, and use of symbols. Experience with mathematical modes of thought builds mathematical power—a capacity of mind of increasing value in this technological age that enables one to read critically, to identify fallacies, to detect bias, to assess risk, and to suggest alternatives. Mathematics empowers us to understand better the information-laden world in which we live.” From: Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (c) 1989 National Academy of Sciences.
Empowered with the critical thinking skills that Mathematics develops, recent Mathematics graduates from Western have obtained positions in a variety of fields including actuarial science, cancer research, computer software development, business management and the movie industry. The skills acquired in our program have prepared graduates for further academic studies in Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Oceanography and Education.
Compared to the BA and BS Mathematics majors, this major requires that the student take a carefully selected sequence of courses focusing on a particular area of application of mathematics.
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Requirements
Choose either:
MATH 124 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry I Credits: 5
MATH 125 - Calculus and Analytic Geometry II Credits: 5
or
MATH 134 - Calculus I Honors Credits: 5
MATH 135 - Calculus II Honors Credits: 5
or
MATH 138 - Accelerated Calculus Credits: 5
Choose either:
MATH 204 - Elementary Linear Algebra Credits: 4
MATH 331 - Ordinary Differential Equations Credits: 4
or
MATH 203 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations I Credits: 4
MATH 303 - Linear Algebra and Differential Equations II Credits: 4
MATH 224 - Multivariable Calculus and Geometry I Credits: 5
MATH 226 - Limits and Infinite Series Credits: 4
MATH 304 - Linear Algebra Credits: 4
MATH 312 - Proofs in Elementary Analysis Credits: 4
M/CS 375 - Numerical Computation Credits: 4
M/CS 475 - Numerical Analysis Credits: 4
One course from:
MATH 302 - Introduction to Proofs Via Number Theory Credits: 4
MATH 309 - Introduction to Proof in Discrete Mathematics Credits: 4
Choose either:
MATH 341 - Probability and Statistical Inference Credits: 4
MATH 342 - Statistical Methods I Credits: 4
or
MATH 441 - Probability Credits: 4
MATH 442 - Mathematical Statistics Credits: 4
One course from:
CSCI 140 - Programming Fundamentals in C++ Credits: 4
CSCI 141 - Computer Programming I Credits: 4
MATH 307 - Mathematical Computing Credits: 4
NOTE: If the supporting sequence from CSCI below is chosen, this requirement is fulfilled.
One of the following concentrations:
Engineering Concentration:
MATH 225 - Multivariable Calculus and Geometry II Credits: 4
MATH 438 - Introduction to Complex Variables Credits: 4
One course from:
MATH 430 - Fourier Series and Applications to Partial Differential Equations Credits: 4
MATH 432 - Systems of Differential Equations Credits: 4
Operations Research Concentration:
M/CS 335 - Linear Optimization Credits: 4
M/CS 435 - Nonlinear Optimization Credits: 4
MATH 410 - Mathematical Modeling Credits: 4
No fewer than 3 additional credits from:
400-level MATH courses
400-level M/CS courses
CSCI 405 - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures II Credits: 4
CSCI 480 - Computer Graphics Credits: 4
One of the following sequences:
PHYS 161 - Physics with Calculus I Credits: 5
PHYS 162 - Physics with Calculus II Credits: 5
PHYS 163 - Physics with Calculus III Credits: 5
or
CHEM 161 - General Chemistry I Credits: 5
CHEM 162 - General Chemistry II Credits: 5
CHEM 163 - General Chemistry III Credits: 5
or
CHEM 175 - General Chemistry I, Honors Credits: 5
CHEM 176 - General Chemistry II, Honors Credits: 5
CHEM 225 - General Chemistry III, Honors Credits: 5
or
CSCI 141 - Computer Programming I
CSCI 145 - Computer Programming and Linear Data Structures Credits: 4
CSCI 241 - Data Structures Credits: 4
CSCI 301 - Formal Languages and Functional Programming Credits: 5
and one of:
CSCI 305 - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures I Credits: 4
CSCI 330 - Database Systems Credits: 4
CSCI 345 - Object Oriented Design Credits: 4
CSCI 401 - Automata and Formal Language Theory Credits: 4
or
ECON 206 - Introduction to Microeconomics Credits: 4
ECON 207 - Introduction to Macroeconomics Credits: 4
ECON 306 - Intermediate Microeconomics Credits: 4
and one of:
ECON 375 - Introduction to Econometrics Credits: 4
ECON 470 - Economic Fluctuations and Forecasting Credits: 4
ECON 475 - Econometrics Credits: 4
Note: MATH 101, MATH 112, MATH 114, MATH 115, MATH 118 and MATH 240 may not be counted toward this major.
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