Major 1: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Educational objectives: Following the requirements of national basic education reform and development, basing itself in Hubei Province while facing the whole country, the major produces high-quality primary and secondary school mathematics teachers who understand and enjoy teaching, with prominent professional ethics and passion, good humanities and scientific literacy, solid basic knowledge, theories and skills of mathematics, strong abilities in teaching, class management and comprehensive education, and great awareness of education innovation and self-development.

Skills profile: Graduates of this major are equipped with knowledge, quality and abilities in the following eight aspects: teachers’ moral standards, education sentiment, discipline quality, teaching ability, class guidance, comprehensive education, reflection, and communication and cooperation.

Duration and degree: The standard program for this major lasts four years with a flexible duration of study that can be completed in three to six years. The Bachelor’s degree of Science is to be awarded for this major.

Credits: The total number of credits allowed for graduation in this major is 169.

Main courses: Mathematical Analysis, Advanced Algebra, Analytic Geometry, Constant Differential Equations, Elementary Number Theory, Mathematical Models and Experiments, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Complex Variable Functions, Abstract Algebra, Elementary Mathematical Studies, Real Variable Functions

Major 2: Information and Computing Science

Education objectives: This major aims to cultivate talents with good moral, scientific and cultural literacy, and a good mastery of the basic theories, methods and skills of mathematical science, who are able to use mathematical knowledge and information technology to solve practical problems, to update knowledge to cater for the needs of the development in computing science and information technology, and to engage in scientific research in mathematics and related fields or to engage in research, teaching, application development and management in the fields of science, education, information, economy and finance, and administration.

Skill profile: Graduates of this major shall be equipped with a solid mathematical foundation and good knowledge, quality and abilities in mathematical language expression, and algorithm design, analysis and implementation.

Duration and degree: The standard program for this major lastsfour years with a flexible duration of study which can be completed in three to six years. The Bachelor’s degree of Science is to be awarded for this major.

Credits: The total number of credits allowed for graduation in this major is 162.

Main Courses: Mathematical Analysis, Advanced Algebra, Analytical Geometry, C Programming, Principles of Computer Composition, Data Structures, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Database Principles, Mathematical Models and Experiments, Discrete Mathematics, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Operations Research, Ordinary Differential Equations, Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis

Major 3: Statistics

Education objectives: This major aims to produce inter-disciplinary talents through comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, who systematically grasp the basic theories and methods of statistics, who have relatively solid mathematical foundation, who can independently use computers and statistical software to model, analyze data and solve practical problems, and who can carry out statistical investigation, statistical information management and data analysis in government administrations, enterprises and public institutions and Internet companies, or who can conduct research in institutions of scientific research or education.

Skills Profile: Graduates of this major shall be equipped with basic skills in data collection, questionnaire design and data processing. Graduates shall be able to correctly make analysis and judgement of software calculation results based on statistical thinking, and to use statistical theory to analyze and solve practical problems in related fields.

Duration and degree: The standard program for this major lasts four years with a flexible duration of study, which can be completed in three to six years. The Bachelor’s degree of Science is to be awarded for this major.

Credits: The total number of credits allowed for graduation in this major is 161.

Main courses: Mathematical Analysis, Algebra and Geometry, Accounting, Real Variable Functions, Probability Theory, Micro Macroeconomics, Mathematical Models and Experiments, Discrete Mathematics, Database Technology, Mathematical Statistics, Experiment Design, Statistical Applications, Constant Differential Equations, Computational Equations Method, Practical Regression Analysis, Applied Random Process, Sampling Techniques, Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Time Series Analysis.

Major 4: Applied Statistics

Education objectives: This major aims to cultivate application-oriented professional talents in statistics, who master the basic theories and knowledge of mathematics, statistics and economics, who have good professional foundation and application ability in statistics, and who can be engaged in business data analysis, business operation promotion and management in various industries, or who can carry out investigation, analysis and consulting management in enterprises, institutions and economic administrations.

Skill profile: Graduates of this major shall be systematically equipped with the basic theories, methods and professional knowledge of mathematics, statistics and economics, good knowledge, quality and abilities in data collection and sorting, questionnaire design, experimental scheme design, statistical modeling, data analysis, etc.

Duration and degree: The standard program for this major lasts four years with a flexible duration of study, which can be completed in three to six years. The Bachelor’s degree of Science is to be awarded for this major.

Credits: The total number of credits allowed for graduation in this major is 159.