Mathematics
Program Distinctives
The mathematics program at Westmont emphasizes learning in community. We have small classes and encourage students to collaborate with fellow students and to visit professors during their office hours. Students have opportunities to participate in summer research projects at Westmont and at other iinstitutions, to help run mathematics outreach events to high schoolers, and to tutor in local schools.
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Planning Your Program of Study
What does it take to complete a major in mathematics? The college catalog contains the official description of the major, but you might find it helpful to consider this sample four-year plan for the BS degree in mathematics. Please note that upper-division courses are offered every other year, according to this schedule.
Career Choices
Mathematics graduates are well-prepared for a wide variety of careers. They have entered the fields of finance, accounting, teaching (high school and college), cryptanalysis, nursing, and biomedical research. Graduates have gone on to medical and law school and to graduate school in mathematics, statistics, economics, and public health.
General Education: Reasoning Abstractly
The department has prepared some suggestions for students and advisors about mathematics and computer science courses that fulfill the Reasoning Abstractly component of Westmont's general education program.
Budapest Semester
Westmont mathematics majors can now take up to four upper-division mathematics classes in the newly approved off-campus program to Budapest, Hungary.
Contact Information
Patti Hunter, chair
805.565.6076
phunter@westmont.edu
Department Secretary
Silvia Rodarte
srodarte@westmont.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Westmont College
955 La Paz Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93108