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CCTP-624-01 The Math Behind the News Stories: Interpreting Math in the Media
Spring only
Students will become fluent with concepts commonly mentioned in the media but rarely understood fully by the average viewer. This class covers a wide variety of topics in an accessible, verbal manner, complimented by discussion of basic computational methods as needed. This class is geared to those who want to understand the rhetoric of math, become more literate in the issues pervasive in media, and gain an important set of workplace skills in the process.
This course begins with basic topics regarding health statistics, clinical drug trials, and related news coverage. Election polling, margin of error, traditional versus convenience sampling, and survey design follow. Topics from Economics and Finance complete the course. The bond market, with close attention to the relationship between the US and China, the flow of mortgage backed securities, global implications of the housing bubble and market meltdown, exchange rates, the role of the Fed, GDP growth and unemployment are covered in detail. Finally, the Madoff scandal is covered through the lense of numbers, language and hegemony.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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