Undergraduate Courses
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The Department of Mathematics has a variety of entry-level undegraduate courses, depending upon students' background and future plans. These courses can be roughly classified in
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Pre-degree programmes
Pre-degree courses include foundation courses and support courses.
Advanced course for college students
MAX Accelerated Mathematics is a course designed for highschool students who have shown themselves to be able mathematicians, who wish to be challenged in maths and who can handle a solid workload. It is essentially a chance to gain University credits in a degree programme while still at Secondary School.
Stage 1 courses
The Mathematics Department has a variety of entry levels for courses in mathematics, depending upon a student’s mathematical background.
These courses are known as Stage 1 courses and the entry is largely determined by NCEA results.
Selecting Stage 1 Mathematics courses
Full list of Stage 1 Mathematics papers
Preparatory courses
MATHS 101 - Mathematics in Society and MATHS 102 - Functioning in Mathematics
These courses can be taken simultaneously with MATHS 190G - Great Ideas Shaping Our World
Entry-level courses
For advice on choosing your appropriate entry-level, please see the page selecting Stage 1 Mathematics courses .
- It can be taken simultaneously with:
- MATHS 150 -Advancing Mathematics 1 is the advancing stream course for first year/semester.
- It can be taken simultaneously with:
- MATHS 162 -Modelling and Computation is the Applied Mathematics Stage 1 course, for students planning to major in (Applied) Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,, Bioengineering, Finance, Commerce, etc.
- It has to be taken simultaneously with or after:
General education courses
The following courses can be used to fulfill the General Education requirements and can also be taken as a regular part of a BSc, BA or other degree as required.
- A course designed to build confidence in Mathematics while demonstrating the role it plays in understanding and guiding human activity.
- This course explores the development and uses of some of the big advances in mathematical thinking. No formal background is required, just a curiosity about topics such as infinity, knots, fractals and paradoxes.
