Your requirements for the major are determined by your
catalog-year, which is initially set to the calendar-year of
the fall of the academic year that you first enrolled at UF. UF's
academic years begin with Summer B and end with Summer A. For
example, 2005 is the initial catalog-year for students who first
enrolled at UF during Summer B 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, or Summer
A 2006. Your catalog-year remains at its initial value unless an
advisor resets it (which will not be done without consultation with
you).
You may have your catalog-year reset to a year later than the
one determined by your initial enrollment, but not to an earlier
year. To have your catalog-year reset, see an advisor in the Academic
Advising Center (unless you are double-majoring and your first major
is in a college other than Liberal Arts and Sciences, in which case
you should go to that college's advising office). However, before
asking to have your catalog-year reset you should consult an academic
advisor in each of your major and minor departments, as well as with
the college advising offices for each such department. When you
change your catalog-year, the change applies to all your
requirements, not just to those set by one department. Thus if you
have more than one major or a minor, changing your catalog-year may
produce desirable results for one of your majors or minors, but
undesirable results for another (either because of changes in the
departmental requirements for the other major/minor, or because of
changes in college-level requirements for the colleges housing those
departments).
2005-and-later vs. 2004-and-earlier catalog-years:
Differences in math-major requirements
All dates below are catalog-year dates.
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Distinction between B.A. and B.S. requirements.
For 2004 and earlier, the requirements for the Bachelor of
Arts (B.A.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees are identical. Starting
2005, the B.S. is a more difficult degree to get than
the B.A.:
- For the B.A., either of the sequences MAA 4211-12 (Advanced
Calculus 1-2) or MAA 4102-03 (Advanced
Calculus for Engineers and Physical Scientists 1-2) counts. For the
B.S., only the harder sequence MAA 4211-12 counts.
- For both degrees, four math-major electives (from the same
pre-approved list) must be taken. For the B.A., at least one of
the four must be a UF math-department course at the 4000-level or
higher. For the B.S., at least three of the four must be a UF
math-department course at the 4000-level or higher. ("Math-department
course" excludes various courses on the electives list
that are offered by other departments, e.g. Statistics.)
As a general rule the B.S. program (starting 2005) is intended for
students who wish to pursue graduate study in mathematics, and for
other strong students with a deep interest in mathematics. Students
intending to apply to a Ph.D. program in mathematics are strongly
urged (but not required) to complete MAS 4301 and MAA 4211-4212 by the
end of their junior years and to include MAS 5311 (Introductory
Algebra 1) and MAA 4226 (Modern Analysis 1) among their electives, and
are encouraged to take more than four electives.
The B.A. program is intended for students who may wish to pursue a
career in a mathematical field or to teach mathematics at the
secondary-school level, but who do not currently contemplate graduate
study in mathematics. The greater flexibility in choice of electives
for B.A. students also facilitates double-majoring with physics,
statistics, computer science, and engineering, or minoring in these
fields or in actuarial sciences or education.
Both B.S. and B.A. studentswho plan to teach secondary-school
mathematics are advised to include MTG 3212 (Geometry) among their
electives.
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Computer programming requirement.
Starting 2005, there is no computer-programming requirement;
for earlier years there is a computer-programming requirement.
Note: although programming is not required for
catalog-years 2005 and later, students who wish to pursue a career in applied
mathematics are strongly urged
to take a programming course that teaches C or
C++.
- MAS 3300 (Numbers and Polynomials) and MHF 3202 (Sets and
Logic).
Starting 2005, students are required to take one of these
courses, and these courses do not count as electives. For earlier
years, these courses count as electives.
Note: The prerequisites
for MAS 4105 now include a grade of C or better in MAS 3300 or MHF
3202. Thus, regardless of your catalog-year, if you have not yet taken
MAS 4105, you are going to have to take MAS 3300 or MHF 3202 first.
- STA 4321 ("Mathematical Statistics 1" in the
Undergraduate Catalog, "Introduction to Probability" on the
Statistics Department's website).
Starting 2005, this course is
not required, but counts a math-major elective.
For 2004
and earlier, this course is required and does not count as a
math-major elective.
Note: - STA 4321 has a prereq that includes "STA
2023 or STA 3032, or permission of instructor". If you are a math
major you do not need to take STA 2023 or STA 3032 prior to STA
4321, but you do need to get the Statistics Department's
permission. To get this permission, contact the Statistics
Department office (103 Griffin/Floyd Hall, 392-1941) and give the
person with whom you speak the information needed to confirm that
you're a math major. Do not ask a math advisor to give you this
permission; nobody in the math department has the ability to override
a prerequisite for another department's course.
- Students who wish to pursue a career in applied mathematics
are strongly urged to take STA 4322, which has STA 4321 as a
prerequisite.
- Elective Packages
For 2004 and earlier, two of the
student's four math-major electives must fall into an "elective
package"; see catalog-year 2004 or
earlier requirements for details. Starting 2005, there is no
elective-package requirement: any combination of four electives from
the pre-approved list suffices (see
electives for catalog-year 2005 or later), subject only to the
constraints mentioned under "Distinction between B.A. and
B.S. requirements" above.
For further information, please contact an
advisor in the Mathematics Department.
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Last update made by D. Groisser Sun Jun 18 18:00:10 EDT 2006
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