MATH& 148: Business Calculus

Class Program
Distribution
Symbolic or Quantitative Reasoning,
Math/Science Non-Laboratory
Credits 5 Lecture Hours 55
This is an introductory calculus course for business and economics students. It includes an introduction to rates of change, differentiation, integration, areas, and appropriate calculus techniques. There are also applications to marginal analysis in economics, optimization and other relevant applications..

Prerequisites

MATH& 141, placement in the class or instructor permission.
Quarters Offered
Winter,
Spring
Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

  1. Work with functions and limits to model change
  2. Apply appropriate methodology to differentiate and integrate elementary functions
  3. Apply calculus techniques to problems in business and economics
Institutional Outcomes
IO2 Quantitative Reasoning: Students will be able to reason mathematically.
Course Content Outline
  1. Review of function theory
  2. Limits, rates of change, and the derivative
  3. Applications of differentiation
  4. Exponential and logarithmic functions
  5. The integral
  6. Techniques of integration
  7. Applications of Integration
  8. Functions in several variables
Department Guidelines

In order to give the instructor the greatest flexibility in assigning a grade for the course, grades will be based on various instruments at the instructor’s discretion. However, to maintain instructional integrity there must be four class exams or three class exams and a project. A final exam will be given if there are less than four exams or a project may be substituted for the final exam if there are four in-class exams. At least 60% of the grade will be based on quantifiable work (exams, homework, quizzes, etc.). The remaining portion of the grade may be based on quantifiable work, attendance, projects, journal work, etc., at the instructor's discretion.

The following is a compilation of acceptable grading instruments: In class exams and a final, attendance, homework or quizzes, research paper, modeling projects on the calculator or computer. Other projects or assignments may be assigned as deemed appropriate at the instructor's discretion.