Fundamentals of Calculus

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This course is designed for students majoring in biology, pre-health sciences, or any other major except mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, chemistry, and physical sciences. Course topics include functions, limits, derivatives, and integrals, and problem-solving methods, including optimization and related rates problems. Emphasis is placed on developing and interpreting models from a variety of disciplines, on analyzing data, and on graphing and numerical computations. These knowledge and skills are essential to today's life science workforce and researchers. (lecture: 3 hours; recitation: 1 hour). Prerequisite(s): Pre-Calculus, high school Algebra and Trigonometry.