Course Syllabus

Course Description:

College level course in algebra for majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: polynomial, rational, radical, exponential, absolute value, and logarithmic functions; systems of equations; theory of polynomial equations; analytic geometry.

Course Outline: (subject to change is necessary)

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Student Learning Outcomes:

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

1. Analyze and investigate properties of functions;
2. Synthesize results from the graphs and/or equations of functions;
3. Apply transformations to the graphs of functions;
4. Recognize the relationship between functions and their inverses graphically and algebraically;
5. Solve and apply rational, linear, polynomial, radical, absolute value, exponential, and logarithmic equations and solve linear, nonlinear, and absolute value inequalities;
6. Solve systems of equations and inequalities;
7. Apply techniques for finding zeros of polynomials and roots of equations;
8. Apply functions and other algebraic techniques to model real world STEM applications;
9. Analyze conics algebraically and graphically; and
10. Use formulas to find sums of finite and infinite series.

Course Content:

1. Functions including linear, polynomial, rational, radical, exponential, absolute value, logarithmic: definitions, evaluation, domain and range;
2. Inverses of functions;
3. Algebra of functions;
4. Graphs of functions including asymptotic behavior, intercepts, vertices;
5. Transformations of quadratic, absolute value, radical, rational, logarithmic, exponential functions;
6. Equations including rational, linear, polynomial, radical, exponential, absolute value, logarithmic;
7. Linear, nonlinear, and absolute value inequalities;
8. Systems of equations and inequalities;
9. Characterization of the zeros of polynomials;
10. Properties and applications of Complex numbers;
11. Properties of conic sections; and
12. Sequences and series.

Textbook:

Great news: a supplementary textbook for this class is available for free online!
College Algebra from OpenStax, ISBN 1-947172-12-3

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Important Notes:

• All assignments need to be completed and submitted on or before the beginning of REVIEW day for each Unit. Assignments will earn a minimum of the Unit exam score.

• Any student needing accommodations should inform the instructor. Students with disabilities who may need accommodations for this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC)early in the quarter so that reasonable accommodations may be implemented as soon as possible. Students may contact the DRC by visiting the Center (located in room A205) or by phone (541-4660 ext. 249 voice or 542-1870 TTY for deaf students). All information will remain confidential.
• Academic dishonesty and plagiarism will result in a failing grade on the assignment. Using someone else's ideas or phrasing and representing those ideas or phrasing as our own, either on purpose or through carelessness, is a serious offense known as plagiarism. "Ideas or phrasing" includes written or spoken material, from whole papers and paragraphs to sentences, and, indeed, phrases but it also includes statistics, lab results, art work, etc.