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admit@essex.ac.uk | T +44 (0)1206 873666 What single honours
courses do we offer? BSc Mathematics Although we offer four alternative single honours courses, there is no need to worry about which one you should choose, because there is plenty of flexibility as all three courses share the same first year.
In addition to the first-year mathematics core modules, you will study a targeted computing module that includes Excel for handling numbers, Matlab which is a matrix-based computer language, and Maple which is a general purpose computer algebra system. The module Principles of Modern Science explains, in a non-technical way, the mysteries of life, the universe and everything (including cosmology, chaos and fractals, and evolution and the human genome).
In the second year, the modules range from formal algebra through to applications of mathematics in operational research (the mathematical side of management) and statistics, including the key mathematical methods. In the third year, you can choose from a number of options depending on your individual interests.
BSc Mathematics for Secondary Teaching The first two years of this course are the same as BSc Mathematics, though there are informal opportunities for visits to schools during the second year. In the third year, the course differs as one quarter of the year is spent on a teaching-related project.
Can I study abroad? All three-year single honours courses have a four-year variant in which the third year is spent studying at a partner institution in the United States.
The module structure for the first two years and the final year are the same as the three-year versions. Any institution with which we have a partnership can be selected, though we enjoy particularly close links with California State University in Chico and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
These courses offer you an exceptional opportunity and ensure that your CV and job prospects are enhanced. As well as seeing American society at first hand, you will have the opportunity to explore a greatly enhanced range of mathematical topics, since the subjects taken during your third year differ from those subsequently taken in the fourth year of the courses.
What are the first-year
core modules? As students vary greatly in their background knowledge, the central first-year modules are a mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar. You will probably meet topics (such as probability) that you have studied before, and you will also meet new topics. There are two modules in each term.
Autumn term Calculus (differentiation, integration, inequalities, complex numbers); Linear Mathematics (vectors, matrices).
Spring term
Statistics (probability, probability distributions, statistical inference); Further Calculus (complex numbers, limits, differential equations).
What size are the classes? First-year mathematics lectures have relatively large numbers of students, in the region of 70 plus. As the lectures become more specialised in the second and third years, the numbers reduce, with 20 or fewer students not being uncommon.
What joint honours
courses do we offer? For every course there are four modules in the autumn and spring terms of both the second and third years. There are therefore a total of sixteen modules in these two years. A course title provides a reasonable guide to the breakdown of the course between the contributing subjects; courses with ‘and’ in the title have a more equal weighting between the subjects studied, whereas courses with ‘with’ in the title will have a larger weighting given to the main subject.
BSc Mathematics with Economics and BSc Economics and Mathematics Both courses include modules on macroeconomics (economics of nations) and microeconomics (economics of producers and consumers), in addition to basic mathematics modules.
BSc Accounting and Mathematics, BSc Finance and Mathematics, and BSc Management and Mathematics The first year of each of these courses include the mathematics core modules. They all include a basic accounting module, with the first two also including an introductory module in economics. All three courses may be regarded as being business oriented.
BSc Management, Mathematics and Economics (three- or four-year course) and BSc Management with Mathematics These are courses in management in which mathematics plays a smaller role, but is essential in all years of study.
Science courses BSc Mathematics, Cryptography and Network Security With the public becoming increasingly aware of the need to guard against credit card fraud, and the need for security in electronic transactions, this novel course includes specialist modules in these new applications of mathematics.
BSc Mathematics with Computing and BSc Computing and Mathematics These courses blend mathematics with computer science to varying extents. Within computer science the emphasis is on programming, but options include robotics, machine learning and web graphics.
Social science courses Mathematics has often been termed the queen of the sciences, but it also plays a great role in quantifying social science. The Department of Economics and Essex Business School play a central role in the delivery of the following social science-related mathematics courses:
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