Course Goals

Student Learning Outcomes 

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

  1) Use analytical, numerical, and graphical methods to solve calculus problems. 

2) Solve multi-disciplinary application problems and interpret the results in context 

Course Objectives 

Students will be able to: 

1) Compute the limit of a function at a real number; 

2) determine if a function is continuous at a real number; 

3) find the derivative of a function as a limit; 

4) find the equation of a tangent line to a function; 

5) compute derivatives using differentiation formulas; 

6) use differentiation to solve applications such as related rate problems and optimization problems; 

7) use implicit differentiation; 

8) graph functions using methods of calculus; 

9) evaluate a definite integral as a limit; 

10) evaluate integrals using the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; and 

11) apply integration to find area.