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. Quantitative Skills. Recommended for Biology majors and students pursuing Pre-Health fields who do not plan to continue in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Math or Physics. Includes recitation. Prerequisite(s): Two years of high school mathematics and Math Placement Test.