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By choosing electives carefully, you can combine a mathematics major with a minor or specialization in some other area such as business, physics, computing sciences, economics, or a language. Your advisor can help you design a program to suit your particular interests.
Computing Science
A computer science minor is valuable for two reasons: the logical structure of computer science parallels the logical thinking skills in mathematics, and secondly, the current job market favors mathematics graduates with minors such as computer science. It is fairly easy to gain this minor:
seven computing courses are needed. With careful course selection, a mathematics major can earn the CS minor by taking only three courses beyond the mathematics major requirements.
A prospective computer science minor must go to the Computing Science office (Mendel 161) and complete an application form. The courses required for a minor are CSC 1051, CSC 1052, CSC 1200, CSC 1300, CSC 1700, and CSC 2053. You can use CSC 1051 as one of your science courses. Additionally, the requirement to take CSC 1300 is waived for mathematics majors who have completed MAT 2600 and MAT 2705. Finally two other computing courses, chosen from the list provided by the Department of Computing Sciences, must be taken. You should take CSC 4170, since this can count as one of the four required math elective courses.
Applied Physics
Applied physics minor requirements are 16 credits (requires MAT 4310 which counts as a math elective) in the University sequence, PHY 2410-2417; 15 additional credits of upper level physics electives. If the sequence PHY 4200-4202 is used as physics electives, the PHY 4202 will also count as a math elective.
Economics
Economics minor
requirements are: ECO 1001, 1002, 2101, 2102, and two economic electives (excluding ECO 2110).
Business
A very popular minor is the
Business Minor. First year students may apply by the end of the Fall semester through the Dean’s office (SAC 105) for admission to this competitive program. There is also a
Summer Business Institute program where one can obtain a business minor in one summer. In any case, you should take the economics Micro or Macro course to fulfill one of the Core Social science requirements.
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