DEPARTMENT of MATHEMATICS and STATISTICS
Courses
We take pride in our students’ accomplishments, from first-year learners in required courses to upper-year students pursuing their passion for numbers.
Our department offers courses in the disciplines listed below. For individual course descriptions, follow the links to MacEwan University’s Academic Calendar.
Not all courses are available each term. Courses must be numbered 100 and above to be used to fulfill degree requirements.
SCIE 201
2023/24
Special topics
Special topics courses focus on specific areas of interest within a discipline. The topics are chosen based on the expertise of our instructors, and the topics usually vary from term to term.
Fall 2023
Course: MATH 495: Special Topics in Mathematics | Introduction to Topology
Term: Fall 2023
Section: AS01
Instructor: Dr. Adi Tcaciuc
This course is an introduction to general (point-set) topology. Topics covered include metric spaces, topological spaces, basis, continuity, connectedness, compactness, product and quotient topologies.
Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in MATH 310 or Department consent.
Permission Required: Yes
How to Enrol: Students can request a permission number from the Arts and Science Advising Office at artsandscience@macewan.ca starting at 8:30 a.m. on the morning of their enrolment appointment. Permission numbers will be given to students who fulfill the prerequisites in the order in which they are received. One permission number request per email please.
2024/25
Fall 2024
Course: MATH 495: Special Topics in Mathematics | Representation Theory
Term: Fall 2024
Section: AS01
Instructor: Elaine Beltaos-Kerr
This course is an introduction to representation theory of groups. Topics include: the representation of a group, representation module, irreducible and indecomposable representations, the regular representation, radical of a ring, Wedderburn structure theorem, Burnside’s Theorem, the group algebra, group characters, modules of characters and the Kronecker product of a representation.
Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in MATH 229 and minimum grade of at least C- in at least one 300-level MATH course.
Permission Required: No
Winter 2025
Course: STAT 395: Special Topics in Statistics | Survival Analysis
Term: Winter 2025
Section: AS01
Instructor: David Thiessen
Basic Concepts for Survival Data, Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalan Estimators, Parametric Methods for Lifetime Distributions, Regression Models, Model Checking and Goodness-of-Fit Tests
Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in STAT 266 and a minimum grade of C- one of STAT 371 or STAT 378, or consent of the department.
Permission Required: Yes. To enrol in this class, please contact the Department Chair, Dr. Adi Tcaciuc at TcaciucA@macewan.ca to request a permission number.