Mathematics Math Q
Quantitative Analysis for Economics and the Social Sciences I (218229)
Brendan Kelly2025 Spring (4 Credits)
Schedule: TBD
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This course develops a portable toolkit of quantitative skills that supports students’ strategic thinking. At the center of the course is a set of case studies that require comprehensive quantitative analysis to properly diagnose and address the broad range of problems presented. After taking this course, students’ strategic thinking will be bolstered by the ability to develop mathematical models, apply core ideas from differential and integral calculus and statistics to solve problems in economics and social science, and make use of spreadsheets and the R statistical package to carry out data analysis. Each analytical tool comes to life in an authentic application. The course focuses not just on how to carry out the analysis, but how to communicate results to a non-mathematical audience in simple functional language.
- Course Notes:
- This course should be seen as an applied alternative for Math Ma/Math Mb or Math 1a for students interested in Economics and the Social Sciences. Students completing Math Ma and Math Q will satisfy the Math 1a requirement for the Economics Concentration. Students who want to take Math 1b should instead enroll in Math Mb.
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