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Math Requirements for BCom Students

Depending on your previous education, you will need to take 1, 2 or 3 math courses for your BCom degree. Some students may not need to take any math courses at McGill (i.e. students from Quebec).

All students are required to take a CALCULUS course and a LINEAR ALGEBRA course if they have not been granted these courses upon admission.

MATH 122 Calculus for Management 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions, exponents and radicals, exponential and logorithm. Examples of functions in business applications. Limits, continuity and derivatives. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antiderivatives. The definite integral. Techniques of Integration. Applications of differentiation and integration including differential equations. Trigonometric functions are not discussed in this course.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: A course in functions.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 150. MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 150 and MATH 151 are not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by special permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Open to Desautels Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Desautels Faculty of Management should take MATH 140 [or MATH 139] and MATH 141 instead.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
or
MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: High School Calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 120, MATH 139 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
MATH 123 Linear Algebra and Probability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Geometric vectors in low dimensions. Lines and planes. Dot and cross product. Linear equations and matrices. Matrix operations, properties and rank. Linear dependence and independence. Inverses and determinants. Linear programming and tableaux. Sample space, probability, combination of events. Conditional probability and Bayes Law. Random sampling. Random variables and common distributions.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 223, or MATH 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. Open to Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Management should take MATH 133 instead.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
or
MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction A: Not open to students who have taken MATH 221 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
- Terms
  
  This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
  
  There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

If you receive credit for MATH 140 before starting at McGill or you know that you are expected to receive credit, you cannot take MATH 122; if you do it will be excluded from your credits and GPA. Consult an Academic Advisor for more detailed information as well as the Transfer Credit & Advanced Standing.

Replacement courses

If you plan on pursuing one of the following programs, you will need to take MATH 140, MATH 141and MATH 133 (if you have not been granted these specific math courses upon admission):

Required Course	Replacement Course
MATH 122 Calculus for Management 3 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions, exponents and radicals, exponential and logorithm. Examples of functions in business applications. Limits, continuity and derivatives. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antiderivatives. The definite integral. Techniques of Integration. Applications of differentiation and integration including differential equations. Trigonometric functions are not discussed in this course. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: A course in functions. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 150. MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 150 and MATH 151 are not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by special permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Open to Desautels Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Desautels Faculty of Management should take MATH 140 [or MATH 139] and MATH 141 instead. Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year	MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus 4 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics Fall 4 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: a course in functions Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Students continue in MATH 141 Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year & MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 121 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year * OR MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: High School Calculus Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 120, MATH 139 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year & MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 121 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year *
MATH 123 Linear Algebra and Probability 3 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Geometric vectors in low dimensions. Lines and planes. Dot and cross product. Linear equations and matrices. Matrix operations, properties and rank. Linear dependence and independence. Inverses and determinants. Linear programming and tableaux. Sample space, probability, combination of events. Conditional probability and Bayes Law. Random sampling. Random variables and common distributions. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 223, or MATH 133 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. Open to Faculty of Management students only. Offered by the Faculty of Science. Students intending to pursue one of the major or minor concentrations in Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Management should take MATH 133 instead. Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year	MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry 3 Credits Offered in the: Fall Winter Summer Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization. Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: a course in functions Restriction A: Not open to students who have taken MATH 221 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134. Terms This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year Instructors There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
* MATH 141 counts as an elective.

Required Course

Replacement Course

MATH 122 Calculus for Management 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

&

MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

*

OR

MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

&

MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

*

MATH 123 Linear Algebra and Probability 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry 3 Credits

Offered in the:

Fall
Winter
Summer

* MATH 141 counts as an elective.

Students wishing to pursue any of the above-mentioned majors/minors should consult with an academic advisor in order to ensure this is a good fit for you since these programs have an increased challenge level.

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Math Requirements for BCom Students

Replacement courses

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Desautels Faculty of Management
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Math Requirements for BCom Students

Replacement courses

Department and University Information

Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University

Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University