Below you will find the current course offerings listed by semester and then alphabetically by department. Students and Faculty should log in to workday.simmons.edu and view the live course listings for the current semester. The current semester listings below are updated weekly. If you have any questions about these courses, please contact the Registrar's Office at or 617-521-2111.
Reviews arithmetic, including percents, proportion, and geometric formulae. Covers equations polynomials, rational expressions, and problem solving.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/04 - 2024/12/13 | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00AM - 10:50AM | Amy Cole | 4 | Main Campus |
Covers analytic geometry, functions, limits and continuity, and differential calculus. Includes applications to extrema, physical problems, etc.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/03 - 2024/12/12 | Monday 8:00AM - 9:20AM Tuesday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:20PM | Donna Beers | 4 | TBD |
02 | 2024/09/04 - 2024/12/13 | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:30AM - 10:50AM | Joseph Cotton | 4 | TBD |
Covers integral calculus and applications to area, volume, etc.; transcendental functions; techniques of integration; polar coordinates; and improper integrals. Students may not take both MATH 121 and MATH 123.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/03 - 2024/12/12 | Monday 9:30AM - 10:50AM Tuesday, Thursday 3:30PM - 4:50PM | Donna Beers | 4 | TBD |
02 | 2024/09/04 - 2024/12/13 | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00AM - 9:20AM | Joseph Cotton | 4 | TBD |
Covers foundations of mathematics, combinatorial problem-solving, and graph theory. Includes the following topics: propositional logic and Booleana algebra, one-to-one, onto and invertible functions, cardinality, big-O, applications to complexity theory and cryptography, permutations, combinations, trees, binomial and multinomial coefficients, elementary probability, inclusion/ exclusion recurrence relations, basic graph theory, chains, paths, connectedness circuits, models, and numerous applications.</p>
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/04 - 2024/12/13 | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:00AM - 8:50AM | Margaret Menzin | 4 | TBD |
Introduction to ordinary and partial differential equations. Discussion of both analytical and computer-based approaches to solving differential equations; applications to modeling in sciences. Systems of first order differential equations and introduction to dynamical systems. Topics in partial differential equations and further application to sciences as time permits
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/04 - 2024/12/13 | Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00AM - 10:50AM | TBD | 4 | Main Campus |
Consent of department required.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | TBD | TBD | Margaret Menzin | 4 | TBD |
Provides professional experience for math-related majors. Credit hours are typically based on the number of work hours, determined by the instructor. Successful completion of work experiences as well as post internship presentation required for credit. Consent of the instructor required.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | TBD | TBD | TBD | 16 | TBD |
The goal of this course is to provide policy researchers and practitioners with a set of conceptual frameworks for analyzing the political environment of public policy and policy research, and to practice forming effective strategies for policy analysis, program evaluation, policy design, and advocacy. in other words, this course will enhance our understanding of what happens in the policy process when policies are formulated and implemented and our participation in the policy process now and in the future.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/09 - 2024/12/09 | Monday 6:00PM - 8:50PM | Gregory Williams | 4 | TBD |
This course introduces students to multivariate statistical methods for public policy analysis, covering multiple regression, logistic regression, and power analysis. students are assumed to have completed an introductory statistics course as a prerequisite for this course. Students will use SPSS, a statistical package for the social sciences.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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OL01 | 2024/09/03 - 2024/12/10 | Tuesday 6:00PM - 8:50PM | Zinnia Mukherjee | 3 | TBD |
This course is an introduction to financial management concepts and business practices. It includes the topics of accounting, finance and related analytical and performance management techniques that have particular relevance to managers. In this course, you should become fluent in the issues, data, and concepts of financial decision-making at the organizational level. By the conclusion of this course, you should understand what financial managers do in an organization and how to deal more effectively with them on issues of business and program strategy. This will require you to be able to: . Use basic business mathematics to inform decision making: . Understand how organizations are financed; . Read and understand a set of financial statements . Calculate and interpret financial ratios; and perform a financial analysis; . Conduct basic cost analyses and understand their role in managerial decision-making; . Prepare and discuss a budget, the sources and importance of variance, and the concept of flexible budgeting as a control device; . Understand investment project decision making and be able to compute measures of return (NPV, breakeven); . Use Excel to create, interpret, and present results from financial models. Includes lecture and laboratory sessions.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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OL01 | 2024/09/05 - 2024/12/12 | Thursday 6:00PM - 8:50PM | Laura Neal | 3 | TBD |
Introduces America's multicultural musical tradition, including Native American, African American, and Hawaiian contributions, with consideration of related material such as painting, sculpture, architecture, dance and literature. Gives special attention to jazz, blues, ragtime, concert repertoire, and musical theater and their influence upon European cultures.
Section | Section Dates | Time | Instructor | Credits | Location |
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01 | 2024/09/03 - 2024/12/12 | Tuesday, Thursday 11:00AM - 12:20PM | Gregory Slowik | 4 | Main Campus |