Statement of Philosophy
The spirit of the outside course requirement is that students should learn to communicate with and appreciate the perspectives of users and producers of mathematics in other disciplines. Courses which fulfill this requirement should (a) have significant content in mathematics or mathematics education; and (b) not be substantially equivalent to courses in the mathematics department. A list of a priori acceptable courses is attached. A priori unacceptable courses include those cross listed in mathematics or taught by a mathematics faculty member. An exception is that courses offered by the math department in mathematics education may be used by students in mathematics proper (i.e., not students pursuing the math education options) to satisfy the outside course requirement.
List of a priori acceptable courses
Chemistry
- CHEM 518R and CHEM 518L: Computational Chemistry
- CHEM 580/680: Quantum Chemistry
- CHEM 582/682: Statistical Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Physics
- PHYS 502: Medical Physics
- PHYS 505: Digital Electronics Techniques
- PHYS 506: Applied Electromagnetics
- PHYS 511: Analytical Mechanics
- PHYS 513: Topics in Advanced Mechanics
- PHYS 515A/B: Electromagnetic Theory
- PHYS 528: Statistical Mechanics
- PHYS 529: Physics from Fisher Information, a Unification
- PHYS 530: Introduction to Biophysics
- PHYS 535: Advanced Atomic Physics
- PHYS 545A/B/C/D/E/F: Laboratory Experiments
- PHYS 556: Electrodynamics of Conducting Fluids and Plasmas
- PHYS 560: Solid-State Physics
- PHYS 561: Physics of Semiconductors
- PHYS 562: Theory of Condensed Matter
- PHYS 563: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
- PHYS 570A/B: Quantum Mechanics
- PHYS 571: General Relativity and Cosmology
- PHYS 572: Quantum Theory II
- PHYS 573: Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists I
- PHYS 574: Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists II
- PHYS 577: Gravitation and Cosmology
- PHYS 579A/B: Advanced Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- PHYS 580: Topics in Applied Quantum Mechanics
- PHYS 581: Elementary Particle Physics
- PHYS 582: High Energy Astrophysics
- PHYS 586: Techniques in Particle Physics
- PHYS 587: Nuclear Astrophysics
- PHYS 589: Topics in Theoretical Astrophysics
- PHYS 596A/B/E/F/H: Various Physics Seminars
Philosophy
- PHIL 501A/B: Symbolic Logic
- PHIL 516: Philosophy of Mathematics
- PHIL 519: Induction and Probability
- PHIL 520: Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 521: Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
- PHIL 522: Lexical Semantics
- PHIL 526: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
- PHIL 527: Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
- PHIL 536: Games and Decisions
Linguistics
- LING 501: Formal Foundations of Linguistics
- LING 538: Computational Linguistics