Fifteen (15) additional credit hours excluding Math<strong>em</strong>atics 430,433, 437, 535 and 536.THE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATEA. Specialist AreaMaster of Education Degreefor Teaching Math<strong>em</strong>aticsREQUIREDMATH 535 (3) MATH 536 (3) MATH 631 (3)ELECTIVESThree s<strong>em</strong>ester hours in math<strong>em</strong>atics at the graduate level. B. Professional Development EDFD 584 (3) EDFD 589 (3) C.Resource Areas Six (6) s<strong>em</strong>ester hours in the student’s second teaching field.MATH 430* (3) MATH 437* (3) MATH 499* (3)ELECTIVESThe student who wishes to qualify for the Professional Certificate and the Master of Education degree shall take, in additionto the 30 s<strong>em</strong>ester hours required for the Professional Certificate, the following courses:EDFD 581 Foundations of EducationEDFD 632 Techniques of Educational ResearchEPSY 831 Educational StatisticsCOURSE DESCRIPTIONSUndergraduate/<strong>Graduate</strong> CreditMATH 430* THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS (3) General view of the development of the el<strong>em</strong>entary branchesof math<strong>em</strong>atics, growth of higher math<strong>em</strong>atics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Prerequisite: Twelve hoursof college math<strong>em</strong>atics)MATH 433* CONCEPTS AND STRUCTURE OF MATHEMATICS (3) Structure of the number syst<strong>em</strong>, el<strong>em</strong>ents ofset theory, properties of real numbers, and basic concepts of the math<strong>em</strong>atical syst<strong>em</strong>s. (Prerequisite: instructor’s consent)MATH 437* CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS (3) Applications of various math<strong>em</strong>aticaltopics and math<strong>em</strong>atical needs of people in some of the trades, professions and scientific disciplines. (Prerequisite: Math314 or instructor’s consent)MATH 439* ADVANCED CALCULUS (3) The real number syst<strong>em</strong>; el<strong>em</strong>entary point set theory; sequences and series;continuity; differentiation and integration. (Prerequisites: Math 314 and Math 331 )MATH 473* PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS I (3) Introduction to probability and statistical inference making use ofthe calculus developed in Math 241 and MATH 242. (Prerequisites: MATH 241 and 242)MATH 474* PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS II (3) Moments of distributions and Stieltjes integral; joint densityfunctions; conditional means; moment generating functions; sequences of random variables; distribution theory; andhypothesis testing. (Prerequisite: MATH 473)56
MATH 475 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ALGEBRA (3) Group theory; Lagrange’s Theor<strong>em</strong>; Isomorphism Theor<strong>em</strong>;Cayley’s Theor<strong>em</strong>; rings and fields. (Prerequisite: MATH 336 or instructor’s consent)MATH 499* SEMINAR (3) Various topics in math<strong>em</strong>atics discussed. (Prerequisite: Instructor’s consent)<strong>Graduate</strong>MATH 532 INTRODUCTION TO NUMBER SYSTEMS (3) Background concepts and terminology in sets, relations,mapping. Cartesian products; equivalence relations; el<strong>em</strong>entary properties of the counting numbers; numeration syst<strong>em</strong>s;arithmetic in base 10 and bases other than 10; divisibility and primes; Euclidean Algorithm; Fundamental Theor<strong>em</strong> ofArithmetic consequences; the ring of integers mudulo m; Fermat’s Theor<strong>em</strong>, el<strong>em</strong>entary properties of the rational numbers;existence of irrational numbers.MATH 533 INFORMAL GEOMETRY (3) Fundamental concepts of set theory and logic. Incidence relations Measur<strong>em</strong>ent.Concepts of congruence. Theory of parallel lines. Alternative axioms. Metric properties of triangles; circles, cones,spheres, and pyramids. The coordinate plane and graphs.MATH 535 ALGEBRA FOR TEACHERS (3) Sets, real number syst<strong>em</strong>, theory of polynomials, el<strong>em</strong>entary functions,determinants and matrices.MATH 536 GEOMETRY FOR TEACHERS (3) Foundations of geometry, nature of proof, coordinate syst<strong>em</strong>s, Euclidean,non-Euclidean and protective geometry.MATH 577 FOURIER SERIES (3) Study of approximations of functions by orthogonal syst<strong>em</strong>s of functions; Fourierseries; orthonormal syst<strong>em</strong>s and generalized Fourier series, applications to boundary value probl<strong>em</strong>s. (Prerequisites: MATH314 and 333)MATH 578 LAPLACE TRANSFORMS (3) Definitions and el<strong>em</strong>entary properties; transform of discontinuous functions;inverse transformations; convolution theor<strong>em</strong>s, application to ordinary differential equations. (Prerequisite. MATH 439)MATH 599 RESEARCH AND CONFERENCE (3) May not be repeated for graduate credit. (Prerequisite: <strong>Graduate</strong>standing and twelve hours of senior undergraduate or graduate math<strong>em</strong>atics)MATH 631 INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS (3) Evolution of Math<strong>em</strong>atical idealsand methods, relations to logic; the axiomatic method; the infinite paradoxes; contradictions. (Prerequisite. <strong>Graduate</strong> standing)MATH 633 THEORY OF FUNCTIONS OF REAL NUMBERS (3) The fundamental part of the theory of functionsof a real variable; the topology of the real line, limit, continuity, differentiation, Lesbeque measure, the Lesbeque integral.(Prerequisite: MATH 439)MATH 634 THEORY OF FUNCTIONS OF COMPLEX VARIABLES (3) The fundamental part of the theory of functionsof a complex variable; complex number syst<strong>em</strong>, limits continuity, derivatives of complex functions, integration in thecomplex domain. (Prerequisite: MATH 460 or consent of instructor)MATH 636 TOPOLOGY (3) Introduction to the study of point set topology: topological spaces, metric space, the topologyof the real line and real plane, continuous functions, homeomorphisms, product spaces, compactness, connectivity, separationtheor<strong>em</strong>s. (Prerequisites: MATH 462 and MATH 439 or instructor’s consent)MATH 637 FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (3) Introduction to functional analysis: finite and infinite dimensional vectorspaces norms and inner products, Banach space, Hilbert space, L-space, linear operators. (Prerequisites: MATH 636 andMATH 633 or instructor’s consent)57