2017 Undergraduate Courses
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Minor Study Areas (Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences) | 2017

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences offers the following Minors to students in any degree, where their course rules allow:

 

 Energy and Climate

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
PHYS154 Energy, Climate Change and Human Society 6 Autumn
Plus one of the following
SCIE103 Climate Change 6 Spring
EESC102 Earth's Interconnected Spheres 6 Spring
Plus two of the following
STS 216 Environmental Sociology and Politics 6 Spring
STS 302 Climate Change Policy, Possible Futures 6 Not available in 2017
INTS311 Human Security, Global Capitalism and the Environment 6 Not available in 2017
ENGG378 Sustainable Energy Technologies 6 Spring

Please note the ENGG378 may have pre-requisities.  

General Physics

The minor in General Physics requires satisfactory completion of the following 24 credit points of subjects: 

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
PHYS154 Energy, Climate Change and Human Society 6 Autumn
PHYS155 Introduction to Biomedical Physics 6 Spring
PHYS233 Introduction to Environmental Physics 6 Autumn
PHYS295 Astronomy - Concepts of the Universe 6 Spring

Informatics

The minor in Informatics requires satisfactory completion of the following 24 credit points of subjects:

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
CSIT114 System Analysis 6 Autumn, Spring
CSIT111 Programming Fundamentals 6 Autumn, Spring
Plus 12 credit points from the following:
ISIT204 Principles of eBusiness 6 Spring
ISIT224 Management Information Systems 6 Spring
CSIT226 Human Computer Interaction 6 Spring

Mathematics 

The minor in Mathematics requires satisfactory completion of the following 24 credit points of subjects:  

Subject Code Subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
MATH201 Multivariate and Vector Calculus 6 Autumn
Plus 18 credit points (3 subjects) from the following lists:
200-Level Subjects
MATH202 Differential Equations 2 6 Spring
MATH203 Linear Algebra 6 Autumn
MATH204 Complex Variables and Group Theory 6 Spring
MATH212 Applied Mathematical Modelling 2 6 Spring
MATH222 Continuous Mathematics 6 Autumn
STAT231 Probability and Random Variables 6 Autumn
STAT232 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing 6 Spring
300-Level Subjects
MATH302 Differential Equations 3 6 Autumn
MATH305 Partial Differential Equations 6 Spring
MATH312 Applied Mathematical Modelling 3 6 Not offered in this year
MATH313 Industrial Mathematical Modelling 6 Spring
MATH317 Financial Calculus 6 Autumn
MATH318 Operations Research 6 Autumn
MATH321 Numerical Analysis 6 Spring
MATH322 Algebra 6 Not offered in this year
MATH323 Topology and Chaos 6 Not offered in this year
MATH324 Calculus of Variations and Geometry 6 Spring
MATH325 Wavelets 6 Autumn
MATH329 Medical Mathematics and Applications 6 Autumn
MATH371 Special Topics in Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3 6 Spring
MATH372 Special Topics in Mathematical Analysis 3 6 Not offered in this year
STAT304 Applied Probability and Financial Risk 6 Autumn
STAT332 Linear and Generalised Linear Models 6 Spring
STAT333 Statistical Inference 6 Spring
STAT335 Sample Surveys and Experimental Design 6 Autumn
STAT373 Special Topics in Probability and Statistics 3 6 Autumn
STAT374 Special Topics in Applied Statistics 3 6 Spring
INFO411 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 6 Autumn
INFO412 Mathematics for Cryptography 6 Autumn
*Note: MATH201 pre-requisites are usually MATH187 and MATH188
     

Physics

The minor in Physics requires satisfactory completion of the following 36 credit points of subjects: 

Subject Code subject Name Credit Points Session(s)
PHYS141 Fundamentals of Physics A 6 Autumn
PHYS142 Fundamentals of Physics B 6 Spring
MATH187 Mathematics 1: Algebra and Differential Calculus 6 Autumn
MATH188 Mathematics 2: Series and Integral Calculus 6 Spring
PHYS205 Advanced Modern Physics 6 Autumn
And one of the following
PHYS225 Electromagnetism and Optoelectronics 6 Spring
OR
PHYS255 Radiation Physics 6 Spring
     

 

Last reviewed: 14 November, 2016