The minor is for students interested in working as quantitative analysts or undertaking graduate study in Economics, Finance, Business Analytics, Logistics, and related disciplines.
Mathematics is important for its practical applications, for increasing the student's capacity for rigorous and logical argument, and for its intrinsic beauty.
The role of the minor is to (1) provide adequate mathematical background; (2) expose the student to some core ideas and problems of the field; and (3) expose the student to the allied fields of statistics, computing, finance, and economics.
The minor will provide rigorous conceptual and technical training that prepares students either to start working as professional quantitative analysts or to study towards graduate degrees in Economics, Finance, Business Analytics, Logistics, and related disciplines. Links to the allied fields of Statistics, Finance, Computing, and Economics are central to this highly interdisciplinary area.
Aside from the more obviously applied courses, the curriculum of the minor is designed to also support broad achievement in pure mathematical thinking, and computation. Since there are only two required courses, students have ample opportunity to design a minor that is more theoretical or more practical, in line with their interests and aspirations for employment or graduate study.
Pursuing a Minor in Mathematics makes students more "fluent" in another, universal language. Furthermore, studying pure and applied mathematics enables students to develop very valuable (and sought-after) analytical and problem-solving skills.
Students who successfully complete the minor will be able to:
Six courses distributed as follows:
It is highly recommended that MA 299 and MA 209 be completed prior to taking all the other courses.
