Goals and Outcomes
Quantitative systems refers to those disciplines that apply quantitative methodology to solve complex problems from a variety of fields. Courses in this area provide students with opportunities to analyze, organize, and synthesize quantitative/abstract models, and to present findings verbally, numerically, graphically, and symbolically.
- Students in a college-level course* will interpret and explain relationships among quantities by verbal, numeric, graphic, and symbolic means. The study of these relationships will be a central theme of the course.
For example, a chemistry application could have students compare the rates of a chemical reaction measured at several temperatures to discover a functional relationship between reaction rate and absolute temperature.
- Students will analyze problem situations and translate them into quantitative descriptors. Students will use these descriptors to develop solutions.
For example, a business application could have students calculating an optimal solution to a word problem using an optimization function subject to multiple constraints.
- Students will use quantitative techniques to solve problems from more than one discipline.
For example, a political science application could have students complete the necessary research, computations, and analysis for the establishment of one new stoplight in a local community using empirical probability as a basis for the decision. Students could then present the results of their study orally in a mock city council meeting.
* For example, M100 would not satisfy this requirement.
Evidence / Annual Reports
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