Calculus

The Summer College Calculus program is for high school students who have a strong interest in mathematics and want to take college-level, credit-bearing courses at Syracuse University. Students are required to take one of the three calculus courses below AND one Liberal Arts & Sciences elective. MAT 285 Life Sciences Calculus I (3) MTWTh Noon-1:45 p.m. Functions and their graphs, derivatives and their applications, differentiation techniques, the exponential and logarithm functions, multivariable differential calculus including constrained optimization. MAT 285 may not be taken for credit after successful completion of MAT 284 or MAT 295. REQUIRED PLACEMENT EXAM SCORE MAT 295 Calculus I (4) MTWTh Noon-2:25 p.m. Analytic geometry, limits, derivatives, maxima-minima, related rates, graphs, differentials, exponential and logarithmic functions, mean-value theorem, integration. For science majors. MAT 295 may not be taken for credit after successful completion of MAT 286. Prerequisite: MAT 194: Precalculus OR REQUIRED PLACEMENT EXAM SCORE MAT 296 Calculus II (4) MTWTh Noon-2:25 p.m. Integration: the definite integral and applications; trigonometric functions, methods of integration, improper integrals, infinite series, elementary differential equations, parametric equations, polar coordinates. Prerequisite: MAT 194: Precalculus. Prerequisite: MAT 295: Calculus OR REQUIRED PLACEMENT EXAM SCORE