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