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Course Info for MATH - 114 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2231 Title: Judgment and Decision Making Department: Mathematics
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 29 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM, MECC - 270 Instructor(s): Bartels, Richard
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: satisfactory score Mathematics Placement Examination or C+QLIT 101 or QLIT 103
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Course Description:
In this course, we consider the application of elementary mathematical analysis to various procedures by which societies and individuals make decisions. Topics will include weighted and unweighted voting, apportionment of representatives, redistricting / gerrymandering, and game theory with a theme of understanding decision-making algorithms in the context of historic and modern politics in the United States and around the world.
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