This page is a reference for students and advisors at Mount Holyoke who are looking for courses across the Five Colleges that can serve as substitutes for math/stat major courses. Please note that it’s a work in progress and not all equivalent courses are listed.
The courses below are required by either the math or stat major at Mount Holyoke.
Math majors are required to take a semester of real analysis. Any of these options fulfills the analysis requirement.
At Mount Holyoke, math majors are required to take one semester of abstract algebra, and we offer two options within our department to fulfill this requirement: Math 312GT (a course in group theory) and Math 312RT (a course in ring theory). They can be taken in either order and only one needs to be taken to fulfill the major, but anyone is allowed to take both. At Amherst, one course is offered that combines topics from our two semesters. Smith offers a first course that is primarily group theory, Math 233, and sometimes offers Galois Theory, which covers rings and fields. At UMass, a two semester sequence like ours is offered but Math 411 (group theory) must be taken first. Any of these options fulfills our algebra requirement.
Stat majors are required to take probability. Any of these are equivalent to our probability and will fulfill that requirement.
Stat majors are required to take mathematical statistics. These are equivalent versions of our class. They fulfill the requirement.
The courses below are required for the math or stat major.