ASC 105 - Quantitative Reasoning in Everyday Life

1 Credit(s)

This course is intended to fulfill the quantitative reasoning requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences, particularly for nonscience majors. The purpose of this course is for students to explore how numbers can be used and misused. Using examples from published sources such as print and Internet media, students evaluate the validity of conclusions drawn from numerical data. Students examine how data can be presented in different ways, including graphs and tables, to influence the reader.
2 lecture hours weekly.