Mathematics & Statistics Courses for Non-Majors
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers mathematics and statistics courses that meet the General Education and major requirements for all undergraduate students pursuing majors in other disciplines. Below you will find some general information regarding these courses. Be sure to consult with your academic advisor on the specific math/stat requirements by your degree program.
Important notes:
- Before registering for your first math or statistics course at Wright State, you will need to take the math placement test unless you have non-developmental math transfer credit.
- All pre-requisites must be met before registering for any math or statistics class.
- Developmental math (DEV) classes are offered by University College. Please refer any questions about DEV 0950 Elementary Algebra to your academic advisor. The Business Statistics courses MS 2040 and 2050 are taught by the School of Business.
- A list of campus resources for assisting your math and statistics courses can be found here.
COMMON MTH/STT COURSES REQUIRED BY NON-MATH PROGRAMS:
MTH 1280 – College Algebra: This course's primary goal is to prepare students for MTH 2240 Applied Calculus or MTH 2280 Business Calculus.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 04 OR MTH 1260.
- Textbook: College Algebra, custom WSU edition, by Stewart. Cengage Learning, ISBN: 9780495837558.
- Syllabus: Departmental
MTH 1310 – Trigonometry: This course's primary goal is to prepare students for the regular calculus sequence MTH 2300/2310/2320.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 05 OR MTH 1280.
- Textbook: College Algebra and Trigonometry, 2nd Edition, by Ratti and MCWaters. Pearson Higher Education, ISBN: 9780321644718.
- Syllabus: Departmental
MTH 1340 – Precalculus : This course's primary goal is to prepare students for the regular calculus sequence MTH 2300/2310/2320.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 04 OR MTH 1260.
- Textbook: College Algebra and Trigonometry, 2nd Edition, by Ratti and MCWaters. Pearson Higher Education, ISBN: 9780321644718.
- Syllabus: Departmental
MTH 1440 – Mathematics and the Modern World with Algebra Review: This is a general education course required by many non-technical degree programs, mostly those in the liberal or performing arts. Material covered includes everything in MTH 1450 with the addition of a review of elementary algebra skills.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 02 or ACT Math 17 or SAT Mathematics 415.
- Course Description: A review of beginning algebra skills followed by the study of the application of mathematics to modeling real world problems from the behavioral, computational, managerial, and social sciences. Includes such topics as graph theory, linear programming, probability, descriptive and inferential statistics, voting systems, game theory, population growth, computer algorithms, and codes and data storage.
- Textbook: Using and Understanding Mathematics, 5th edition, by Bennett and Briggs, Pearson Higher Education, ISBN 9780321652799.
- Syllabus: from instructor
MTH 1450 – Mathematics and the Modern World: This is a general education course required by many non-technical degree programs, mostly those in the liberal or performing arts.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 03 OR a passing grade in DEV 0950.
- Course Description: An application of mathematics to modeling real world problems from the behavioral, computational, managerial, and social sciences. Includes such topics as graph theory, linear programming, probability, descriptive and inferential statistics, voting systems, game theory, population growth, computer algorithms, and codes and data storage.
- Textbook: Using and Understanding Mathematics, 5th edition, by Bennett and Briggs, Pearson Higher Education, ISBN 9780321652799.
- Syllabus: Departmental
MTH 2240 – Applied Calculus: This course is for students in sciences programs who are not required to take the regular Calculus courses. Completion of this course does not automatically place students in a regular calculus course. It earns no credit for students already with credit for any regular calculus courses.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 05 OR MTH 1280 or MTH 13450.
- Course Description: Functions, rates of change, limits, derivatives of algebraic functions, applications including maxima and minima, exponential and logarithmic functions, and indefinite and definite integrals with applications.
- Textbook: Calculus for Business, Economics and the Social or Life Sciences, 11th edition, brief version, by Hoffmann and Bradley. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780073532387.
- Syllabus: from Instructor
MTH 2280 – Calculus for Management, Life and Social Sciences: This course is for students in economics/business programs who are not required to take the regular Calculus courses. Completion of this course does not automatically place students in a regular calculus course. It earns no credit for students already with credit for any regular calculus courses.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 05 OR MTH 1280.
- Course Description: Functions, rates of change, limits, derivatives of algebraic functions, applications including maxima and minima, exponential and logarithmic functions, and indefinite and definite integrals with applications.
- Textbook: Introductory Mathematical Analysis for Business, Economics, Life and Social Sciences, 13th edition, by Haessler, Paul and Wood. Prentice-Hill (Pearson), ISBN 9780321643728.
- Syllabus: Departmental
MTH 2410 – Mathematics Concepts for Teachers I : This is the first course of the 3-course sequence on math fundamentals required for students in pre-service teachers programs in the College of Education and Human Resources. The other two courses in the sequence are MTH 2430 and MTH 2450.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 04 OR MTH 1260 with a minimum grade of C.
- Course Description: Discovery of fundamental concepts and skills of quantitative reasoning by exploring real-world data from many disciplines. Data collection, organization, display, analysis, probability simulation, variation and sampling, and expected values. Students work with appropriate software and graphing calculators.
- Textbooks: Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, custom WSU edition, by Beckmann. Pearson Higher Education, ISBN 9781256652250.
- Syllabus: from instructor
MTH 2570 – Discrete Math for Computing: This is a course required by the CS/CEG degree programs.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 05 OR MTH 1280.
- Course Description: Discrete mathematics useful in computing. Emphasis on mathematical induction, recurrence relations, asymptotic behavior of functions, and algorithm analysis.
- Textbook: Mathematical Structures for Computer Science – a Modern Approach to Discrete Mathematics, 6th edition, by J. Gersting. MPS, ISBN: 9780716768647.
- Syllabus: from Instructor
STT 1600 – Statistical Concepts: This is a survey course in the basic statistical concepts and methods, mostly required by programs in nursing and psychology. It cannot be used as a prerequisite for other MTH/STT courses.
- Prerequisite: WSU Math Placement minimum score of 04 OR MTH 1260 with a minimum grade of D.
- Course Description: An introduction to the fundamental ideas of statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, and testing hypotheses, as well as the basics of Chi-square tests, regression and correlation, and analysis of variance.
- Textbook: Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 4th edition, by Triola, Pearson Higher Education, ISBN 9780321564962.
- Syllabus: Departmental
STT 2640 – Elementary Statistics: This course covers the elementary probability and statistical concepts and methods that are required by many programs in the sciences.
- Prerequisite fWSU Math Placement minimum score of 04 OR MTH 1260.
- Course Description: Numerical and graphical methods for finding and summarizing important features of data. Principles of designing experiments for collecting data. Introduction to probability. Use of statistical computing package to apply methods and illustrate concepts. Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing introduction. Applications to means, proportions, two-sample comparisons, contingency tables, linear regression, and analysis of variance. Use of statistical computing package to apply methods to data sets.
- Textbooks: Statistics, 12th edition, by McClave, Sincich and Mendenhall. Pearson Higher Education, ISBN 9780321755933 .
- Syllabus: Departmental
