As the world becomes more and more complex, statistics plays an increasing roll in understanding the nature and current state of society.  Scientific inquiry relies heavily on statistical methods.  Research in many disciplines require the student to be able to collect and analyze data.  Just reading and understanding the work of others often requires an understanding of statistics.  The Statistical Methods courses, Math 3250 and Math 3260 cover many of the important statistical methods that students in other disciplines are likely to encounter.    In addition, these course can be used to help satisfy the graduation requirement for 48 hours of  upper-division credit.

While an understanding of some mathematics and the ability to think mathematically are required, it is not necessary to have had a great deal of mathematics to do these courses.  One course in calculus should be sufficient preparation.