Henry Ford Community College Henry Ford Community College Henry Ford Community College
 
Math Home
Course Descriptions
   MATH 074
   MATH 080
   MATH 100
   MATH 101
   MATH 102
   MATH 103
   MATH 110
   MATH 112
   MATH 115
   MATH 121
   MATH 140
   MATH 150
   MATH 153
   MATH 175
   MATH 180
   MATH 183
   MATH 196H
   MATH 221
   MATH 225
   MATH 275
   MATH 280
   MATH 283
   MATH 289
   MATH 293
   MATH 296H
Course Schedule
Faculty
Instructor Resources
Placement

Mathematics Division

 

MATH 153: Calculus for Business, Life, and Social Science

5 credit hours

Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in MATH 115, MATH 150, or MATH 175, or a satisfactory score on the placement test

For students in business and life and social sciences but not engineering, mathematics, or physical sciences. This course introduces differential and integral calculus of algebraic, logarithmic, and exponential functions of one variable. Topics include limits, continuity, differentiation, graphing, applications of the derivative including minima and maxima, and integration and its applications. Applications are included throughout. Credit cannot be earned for both MATH 153 and MATH 180.