SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentFreshman Class A, Department of Business Administration Freshman Class B, Department of Business Administration
Course NameCalculus
InstructorLEE CHIH-MING
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

WeeK      Date         Contents



1                      2/18               Introduction,                                                                                     



2                      2/25              Sect. 2.1 Limits and Continuity,                                                     



3                       3/4                  Sect. 2.2 Slopes and Derivatives,                                                    



4                       3/11              Sect. 2.3 & 2.4 The Product and Quotient Rules,                       



5                      3/18              Sect. 2.5 Higher Order Derivatives,                                                



6                       3/25              Sect. 2.6 & 2.7 The Chain Rule,   Nondifferentiable Functions                    



7                       4/1                  Class off, Online self study, Subject   to be   appointed



8                       4/8                   Sect. 3.1 & 3.2 Graphing Using Derivatives, mail in the name list of group 



9                      4/15               Midterm Exam,                                                                                      



10                  4/22               Sect. 3.3 Optimization,                                                                          



11                  4/29               Sect. 3.4 Further Applications of Optimization, 



12                    5/6                  Sect. 3.6 , Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates,                                      



13                     5/13                Sect. 4.3 & 4.4 Differential of Logarithmic and Exponential Functions,



14           5/20        University anniversity celebration,  class off, mail in the title of group project,



15                     5/27                Sect. 5.1 & 5.2 Indefinite Integrals, 



16                     6/3                   Sect. 5.3 Definite Integrals and Area,



17                    6/10                Ggroup project presentation,   Final Exam



18                    6/17                 Class off, Mail in the report of group project 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Group Project                                        20%



Homework                                             10%



In-class Discussion                                10%



Midterm Exam                                       30%



Final Exam                                               30%



Students need to participate the in-class discussion at least 5 times to get the basic 10 final scores.  For every 5 extra times of participation, students will get one extra final score.  Moreover, three to four students need to form a group. They need to select a topic about the story of a mathematician and make a presentation in week 18.


Textbook & Reference

Berresford, G.C. and Rockett, A. M., Brief Calculus, 7th edition, 2016, Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.


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