MATH 203 - Calculus for Business and Social Sciences

Course Description

  • Prerequisite: "C" or higher in MATH 135 or placement in MATH 140

Basic concepts; differentiation and intgration; applications to management, finance, economics, and the social sciences.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of MATH 203, the student will be able to:

  • Calculating derivatives and partial derivatives of non-trigometric elementary functions and their sums, products, quotients, and compositions
  • Using calculus to perform optimization methods
  • Evaluating definite and indefinite integrals by using basic formulas and substitution
  • Applying definite and indefinite integrals to business/economic problems
  • The basics about functions of more than one variable
  • Solving applied problems by using functions of more than one variable