Analytic Reasoning

Analytic Reasoning courses assist students in developing capacities for quantitative and analytical reasoning and their central place in natural and social sciences in particular and personal and public life in general.

All students must fulfill the Analytic Reasoning requirement.  However, in addition to taking courses designated as Analytic Reasoning courses, students may fulfill the requirement by taking at least 5 credit hours of mathematics or computer science courses above algebra and pre-calculus.  Similarly, students in professional colleges (COPHS or LSB) with college mathematics requirements fufill the requirement in the process of completing those requirements.  For AP/IB equivalencies, see www.butler.edu/registrar.

Course Structure

A menu of 3-credit-hour courses to be taken from the first year onward.

Learning Outcomes

• To demonstrate capacities for quantitative and analytic reasoning
• To apply these capacities in a variety of practical contexts to the natural and social sciences