Outside Department Courses

Statement of Philosophy

The spirit of the outside course requirement is that students should learn to communicate with and appreciate the perspectives of users and producers of mathematics in other disciplines. Courses which fulfill this requirement should (a) have significant content in mathematics or mathematics education; and (b) not be substantially equivalent to courses in the mathematics department. A list of a priori acceptable courses is attached. A priori unacceptable courses include those cross listed in mathematics or taught by a mathematics faculty member. An exception is that courses offered by the math department in mathematics education may be used by students in mathematics proper (i.e., not students pursuing the math education options) to satisfy the outside course requirement.

List of a priori acceptable courses

Astronomy

• ASTR 515: Interstellar medium and star formation
• ASTR 522: Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics
• ASTR 535: Stellar Structure
• ASTR 537: The Physics of the Sun
• ASTR 545: Stars and accretion
• ASTR 541: Cosmology
• ASTR 540: Galaxies

Biochemistry

• BIOC 516A: Statistical Bioinformatics and Genomic Analysis
• BIOC 567: Computational Biophysics

Biomedical Engineering

• BME 510: Biology for Biomedical Engineering
• BME 511: Psysiology for Biomedical Engineering

Business Administration

• BNAD 510: Business Foundations for Scientists

Chemistry

• CHEM 518R and CHEM 518L: Computational Chemistry
• CHEM 580/680: Quantum Chemistry
• CHEM 582/682: Statistical Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Computer Science

• CSC 537: Geometric Algorithms
• CSC 545: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• CSC 573: Theory of Computation
• CSC 553: Principles of Compilation

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

• ECOL 526: Population Genetics
• ECOL 547: Introduction to Theoretical Ecology
• ECOL 581: Advanced Topics in Biological Statistics

Economics

• ECON 518: Introduction to Econometrics
• ECON 531: Games and Decisions
• ECON 520: Theory of Quantitative Methods in Economics
• ECON 522A/B:Econometrics
• ECON 579: Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics
• ECON 696U: Game Theory

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• ECE 519: Nonlinear Optimization
• ECE 529: Digital Signal Processing
• ECE 535: Digital Communication Systems I
• ECE 539: Algebraic Coding Theory
• ECE 637: Channel Coding

Entrepreneurship

• ENTR 500A: Technology, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization

Information

• INFO 520: Applied Cyberinfrastructure Concepts

Instruction and Assessment

• IA 694: Instructional Practicum
• IA 697A: Learner Centered Teaching

Linguistics

• LING 501: Formal Foundations of Linguistics
• LING 538: Computational Linguistics

Optical Sciences

•OPTI 508: Probability and Statistics in Optics 

Philosophy

• PHIL 501A/B: Symbolic Logic
• PHIL 516: Philosophy of Mathematics
• PHIL 519: Induction and Probability
• PHIL 520: Philosophy of Science
• PHIL 521: Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
• PHIL 522: Lexical Semantics
• PHIL 526: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
• PHIL 527: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
• PHIL 536: Games and Decisions

Physics

• PHYS 502: Medical Physics
• PHYS 505: Digital Electronics Techniques
• PHYS 506: Applied Electromagnetics
• PHYS 511: Analytical Mechanics
• PHYS 513: Topics in Advanced Mechanics
• PHYS 515A/B: Electromagnetic Theory
• PHYS 528: Statistical Mechanics
• PHYS 529: Physics from Fisher Information, a Unification
• PHYS 530: Introduction to Biophysics
• PHYS 535: Advanced Atomic Physics
• PHYS 545A/B/C/D/E/F: Laboratory Experiments
• PHYS 556: Electrodynamics of Conducting Fluids and Plasmas
• PHYS 560: Solid-State Physics
• PHYS 561: Physics of Semiconductors
• PHYS 562: Theory of Condensed Matter
• PHYS 563: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
• PHYS 570A/B: Quantum Mechanics
• PHYS 571: General Relativity and Cosmology
• PHYS 572: Quantum Theory II
• PHYS 573: Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists I
• PHYS 574: Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists II
• PHYS 577: Gravitation and Cosmology
• PHYS 579A/B: Advanced Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• PHYS 580: Topics in Applied Quantum Mechanics
• PHYS 581: Elementary Particle Physics
• PHYS 582: High Energy Astrophysics
• PHYS 586: Techniques in Particle Physics
• PHYS 587: Nuclear Astrophysics
• PHYS 589: Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics
• PHYS 596A/B/E/F/H: Various Physics Seminars

Physiology

• PSIO 572: Quantitative Modeling of Biological Systems

Psychology

• PSY 503C: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

Systems and Industrial Engineering

• SIE 520 : Stochastic Modeling
• SIE 525: Queuing Theory
• SIE 530 : Engineering Statistics
• SIE 531 : Simulation Modeling and Analysis
• SIE 540: Survey of Optimization Methods
• SIE 543: Game Theory
• SIE 544: Linear Programming
• SIE 545: Non-Linear Programming
• SIE 546: Algorithms, Graphs, and Netwroks
• SIE 547: Computational Issues in Optimization
• SIE 550: Theory of Linear Systems
• SIE 561: Traffic Modeling & Simulation
• SIE 562: Advanced Production Control
• SIE 640: Large Scale Optimization
• SIE 644: Integer and Combinatorial Optimization
• SIE 645: Non-Linear Optimization
• SIE 649: Topics in Optimization

Public Health

• CPH 684: General Linear and Mixed Effects Models
• CPH 686: Survival Analysis