Mathematics, B.S.

Major Requirements

Mathematics Culminating Undergraduate Experience (CUE)

The CUE in mathematics provides each student with the opportunity to engage in an intellectually rigorous experience that draws upon knowledge acquired within the major, while allowing students flexibility to select the type of experience they pursue. Each student who majors in mathematics will select one of the following three options for a senior CUE experience:

1. Successful completion of MTH 353 - CUE: Landmarks of Mathematics .
2. Successful completion of MTH 370 - CUE: The Art of Problem Solving .
3. The design, execution, and completion of an appropriate research project, involving at most two students, to be supervised by a department faculty member. A project can involve original research initiated at Muhlenberg or it may be a follow-up independent study to extend summer work completed during a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at another institution. A CUE project must be formally proposed by the student(s) and approved by the department by the end of spring semester of the junior year. Project requirements will include (but are not limited to) a paper detailing the mathematical work completed and a presentation at an appropriate local/regional/national mathematics meeting outside of Muhlenberg.

The option selected as the CUE must be completed during the student’s senior year, except by departmental permission. A student who takes MTH 353 - CUE: Landmarks of Mathematics  or MTH 370 - CUE: The Art of Problem Solving  previous to these last two semesters will not be able to count such a course as fulfilling the CUE requirement for the major.