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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

STRU-MATPM v.1 Mathematics Pre-major (BSc Science)


Major/Stream Overview

This major/stream is part of a larger course. Information is specific to the major/stream, please refer to the course for more information.


Students who wish to study mathematics must enrol in this pre-major. It provides students with the foundation knowledge necessary to pursue their interest in mathematics.



Major/Minor/Stream Organisation


Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
NPSC1001 v.1 *   Scientific Computing 4.0 25.0
  OR  
ECON1000 v.1 **   Introductory Economics 3.0 25.0
STAT1002 v.1   Statistical Data Analysis 3.0 12.5
STAT1001 v.1   Statistical Probability 3.0 12.5
MATH1010 v.1   Advanced Mathematics 5.0 25.0
  OR  
MATH1004 v.1   Mathematics 1 5.0 25.0
  SELECT ELECTIVE UNITS TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF:   25.0
  100.0
Year 1 Semester 2
COMS1000 v.1   Science Communications 2.0 12.5
STAT1000 v.1   Regression and non-Parametric Inference 3.0 12.5
MATH1011 v.1   Mathematics 2 5.0 25.0
MATH1006 v.1 *   Mathematical Modelling 4.0 25.0
  OR  
FNCE2000 v.1 **   Introduction to Finance Principles 3.0 25.0
  SELECT ELECTIVE UNITS TO THE TOTAL VALUE OF:   25.0
  100.0

*    Students approved to enrol in the Applied Mathematics Stream or Industrial Optimisation Stream must complete this unit.

**    Students approved to enrol in the Financial Mathematics Stream must complete this unit.





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