6 ECTS credits
177 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021459ANR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Business Technology and Operations
- Educational team
- Vincent Ginis
(course titular)
Arne Vanhoyweghen
Floriano Jean Tori
- Activities and contact hours
- 27 contact hours Lecture
52 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
98 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
- A survey of algebra, trigonometry and pre-calculus: functions of one variable, conic sections, goniometry, systems of equations and inequalities;
- An overview of optimization techniques, including function analysis (limits, continuity, asymptotes), derivatives and graph sketching techniques;
- The basics of primitive functions and definite integrals;
- An introduction to sequences and series.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Additional course material, Canvas
Course text (Required) : Mathematics for Business and Economics I, Ginis, VUB, 2220170006932, 2019
- Additional info
English reference work (details given in first lecture) and additional lecture material.
Additional course material is available on the online learning platform.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competences
With regard to elementary concepts related to functions of one variable (domain, continuity, limits, asymptotes), and more advanced mathematical concepts, such as derivatives, integration, optimisation, sequences and series, the students are able to:
- explain in own words;
- clarify by means of a graph;
- explain by means of an example;
- produce logical proofs;
- use and apply in an exercise;
- analyse in the context of a given exercise or graph;
- combine concepts in order to solve a questions that cover multiple themes;
- reflect and think critically in order to evaluate and correct;
- to prove simple economic relations;
- translate economic questions and problems into the accurate mathematical question;
- to solve questions and problems in a well-structured and accurate way.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Written Exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
100% written exam (50% theory and 50% exercises).
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Startplan Business Economics
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in International Business: Default track
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Business Engineering: Business and Technology: Default track