The program in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is designed with several goals in mind:
- to teach the language of the mathematical sciences
- to provide a command of powerful mathematical tools
- to develop problem-solving skills
- to foster an ability to ask questions and to make independent discoveries
- to encourage the experience of mathematics as a distinctively rigorous way of knowing
In addition, especially through the statistics offering, the rich interplay between an applied context and mathematical models in working with numerical data is an area of particular emphasis.
The major in statistics requires a minimum of 36 credits, of which 20 must be at the 300 level. Courses are chosen in consultation with one of the statistics advisors and may include calculus, linear algebra, data analysis, applied regression methods, linear statistical models, probability, and mathematical statistics.
