This Learning Community is designed to prepare our majors for advanced study, or for careers in teaching, computing, engineering, statistics and actuarial science. The LC plan calls for a capstone course, a senior RFT, and a senior thesis.

MA 400 SENIOR REFLECTIVE TUTORIAL

Students complete a field experience at an approved facility, or they execute a theoretical research project. An undergraduate thesis is presented. Prerequisites: MA 223, 230, 232. Offered each semester.

CAPSTONE COURSES (pick one)

·        MA 321 ADVANCED CALCULUS. A thorough discussion of the real number system, topology of the real line, continuous functions, uniform convergence. Additional topics from theory of integration and multivariate calculus. Prerequisites: MA 122,223, 232. Offered spring semester, odd years

·        MA 373 PROBABILITY. Basic laws of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, expectations, and the Central Limit Theorem. Prerequisite: MA 223. Offered spring semester, even years.

·        MA 421 TOPOLOGY. Topological spaces and topological equivalence, the topology of the real line, metric spaces, compact spaces, connected spaces, Hausdorff spaces, and the separation axioms. Prerequisites: MA 223, 230, 232. Offered fall semester, odd years.

·        MA 431 ABSTRACT ALGEBRA. Groups, rings, integral domains, fields, and Galois theory. Prerequisites: MA 223, 230, 232. Offered fall semester, even years.