NEW!!! Policy on BC Courses from Other Departments Counting toward the Elective Requirement for the Mathematics Major
The Mathematics Department will occasionally allow courses taken from other Boston College departments to count as electives for the mathematics major. Such courses will be decided upon before the semester they're taken, and allowable courses will be listed on the department website. Only listed courses will be eligible for this purpose, and only for semesters for which they have been approved. The Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Studies should be seen to have a waiver/substitution form signed to allow the course to count as a mathematics elective.
Note that a maximum of one course taken at Boston College outside the Mathematics Department can count as an elective for the mathematics major. This does not affect courses taken abroad, which will be handled in the usual manner.
For Fall 2009-2010, we will count CS385 Theory of Computation as an elective for the mathematics major.
NEW!!! One-credit Courses
In the spring of 2010, the Mathematics Department will be offering 2 one-credit courses:
- MT 373 Numbers, Notations & Recreations (Prof. Rosen, Wednesday 3 p.m.)
- MT 374 Pedagogical Lab associated with MT320 (Prof. Cheung, Thursday 3 p.m.)
See the course descriptions here. The courses will each meet once per week and, as noted, carry one credit. These courses will not count as electives for the purpose of the mathematics electives for a mathematics major or minor. Neither will they count as courses for the 38-course requirement for graduation from Boston College. Rather, these should be seen as enrichment courses for mathematics majors or interested students in other departments.
Course Schedules
Please use the Course Schedule Information page available at the Student Services website for complete and up-to-date course listings, including links to course descriptions, instructor information, and indications of which courses are open, closed, or restricted.
Course Descriptions
We've separated our course descriptions by category (courses may be listed in more than one place):
- Core Courses
- Calculus Courses
- Program-Specific Courses (e.g., Math for Management, Discrete Math for Computer Science)
- Courses for Majors and Minors (200-, 300-, and 400-level)
- One-credit Courses
- Graduate Courses (800-level and higher). We are in the process of revamping our graduate course offerings - these course descriptions are valid through May 2010. For information regarding next fall's projected grad courses, click here.
The Office of Student Services also makes available multiple versions of the Course Catalog.
- There's a listing of all math course descriptions on one page.
