Applied Mathematics - Co-Major 2011

Science graduates with a applied mathematics co-major are expected to be highly sought after in research and industry positions where quantitative skills in graduates are essential. Such students might be expected to progress to science honours programs and ultimately into research positions, including those offered at Swinburne through EBC, IRIS, CAOUS, CMP, Mathematics, Higher Temperature Processing and the Molecular Simulation Groups. The applied mathematics co-major will also enable science students who wish to pusue a career as a teacher to broaden their offering to include expertise in mathematics. There is currently a chronic and acute shortage in trained mathematics teachers. The applied mathematics co-major will also assist students obtain jobs in which employers are seeking excellent analtyical ability to supplement their "hands-on" scientific skills.

A Co-Major is a sequence of study focused on a specific discipline while assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student. It is usually self-contained, in that it includes any requisite foundation studies, however the mathematics co-major requires HMS111 (Engineering Mathematics 1) as a pre-requisite. Where a student has studied a Co-Major they are not normally eligible to apply to graduate with the associated tagged degree outcome. Co-Majors contain up to one elective choice and are made up of 8 units (100cps).

HMS112 Engineering Mathematics 2
HMB111 Quantitative Analysis B 
HMS211 Engineering Mathematics 3A 
HMS411 Engineering Mathematics 5A 
HMS412 Differential Equations  
HMS202 Applied Mathematical Statistics 
HMS212 Engineering Mathematics 4A 
HMS413 Stochastic Modelling
HMS414 Computational Mathematics
HMS415 Advanced Mathematical Methods

* Students are required to check that they have met the per-requisites for each unit.