Statement of Outcomes Assessment
Students are required to successfully complete the course MA 450 Coordinating Seminar. This course reviews the mathematics concepts that students learned in their major required courses and introduces new topics that are not covered in the major courses. In addition, this course is designed to assess the students’ understanding of important concepts and mathematical techniques in these courses, their ability to see the connectivity among the different areas of mathematics, and their ability to communicate mathematics in a clear and coherent manner. Students are given a set of essay questions to be researched in this course. These questions are broad in nature and deal with the underlying concepts that tie together the different areas in the major. An oral presentation of one of the questions is required. Results of the outcomes assessment are used by faculty to determine if content of the courses or the curriculum needs to be revised.