Bachelor of Science (Honours) major in Mathematics

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Mathematics has many faces: it can be challenging, powerful, fascinating, and even mysterious. Postgraduate study in Mathematics increases your knowledge and understanding across a broader and deeper range of topics. It enables you to indulge your academic enthusiasm or satisfy your intellectual curiosity, and at the same time provide you with advanced knowledge and problem-solving skills to open up many career opportunities, including mathematics education.

A postgraduate qualification in Mathematics will provide you with advanced knowledge and understanding across a broader and deeper range of topics. It will give you an opportunity to learn about research, conduct your own research, make new discoveries and develop new ways of looking at things.

Courses available in this subject include:

Complex Analysis
Dynamical Systems
Functional Analysis
Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Group Theory
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Logic and Set Theory
Mathematics Education: Mathematical Processes
Measure Theory and Integration

A good mathematical background enhances and develops your problem-solving skills, comprehension of abstract concepts, and analytical and creative thinking. These are valued qualities in technical roles and positions of leadership and management. Our graduates take up positions in business, government, industry, research, planning and environmental organisations.

Prerequisite: A major in Mathematics or an equivalent subject approved by the Academic Head or nominee, including MATHS 332, and MATHS 320 or 328 or equivalent courses approved by the Academic Head or nominee. MATHS 302 may be substituted for one of MATHS 320, 328, 332

Complete 120 points comprising:

90 points from Elective Courses, and
Either:
30 points for all Research Project - 1 Semester, or
30 points for all Research Project - 2 Semesters

Elective Courses

Complete exactly 90 points from the following:

MATHS 701 - Introduction to Research in Mathematics Education (15 points)

MATHS 702 - Mathematical Processes in the Curriculum (15 points)

MATHS 703 - What Can Be More Practical Than a Good Theory? (15 points)

MATHS 705 - Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education (15 points)

MATHS 706 - Technology and Mathematics Education (15 points)

MATHS 707 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 708 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 709 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 710 - Directed Study in Mathematics Education (15 points)

MATHS 712 - Teaching and Learning in Algebra (15 points)

MATHS 713 - Logic and Set Theory (15 points)

MATHS 714 - Number Theory (15 points)

MATHS 715 - Graph Theory and Combinatorics (15 points)

MATHS 720 - Group Theory (15 points)

MATHS 721 - Representations and Structure of Algebras and Groups (15 points)

MATHS 725 - Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (15 points)

MATHS 730 - Measure Theory and Integration (15 points)

MATHS 731 - Functional Analysis (15 points)

MATHS 734 - Algebraic Geometry (15 points)

MATHS 735 - Analysis on Manifolds and Differential Geometry (15 points)

MATHS 740 - Complex Analysis (15 points)

MATHS 750 - Topology (15 points)

MATHS 761 - Dynamical Systems (15 points)

MATHS 762 - Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (15 points)

MATHS 763 - Advanced Partial Differential Equations (15 points)

MATHS 764 - Mathematical Biology (15 points)

MATHS 765 - Mathematical Modelling (15 points)

MATHS 766 - Inverse Problems (15 points)

MATHS 767 - Inverse Problems and Stochastic Differential Equations (15 points)

MATHS 769 - Stochastic Differential and Difference Equations (15 points)

MATHS 770 - Advanced Numerical Analysis (15 points)

MATHS 781 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 782 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 783 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 784 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 786 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 787 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 788 - Special Topic (15 points)

MATHS 789 - Special Topic (15 points)

Up to 45 points may be substituted from other approved 700 level courses.

Research Project - 1 Semester

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

MATHS 776 - Honours Research Project - Level 9 (30 points)

Research Project - 2 Semesters

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

MATHS 776A - Honours Research Project - Level 9 (15 points)

MATHS 776B - Honours Research Project - Level 9 (15 points)