Non-Credit Courses
You may enroll in any of the Distance Calculus or Distance Computer Science courses for non-credit.
The non-credit courses are run exactly the same as the for-credit courses, except that at the end of the course, you do not receive any college-level academic units/credits.
The non-credit Distance courses are not offered through an academic institution, but rather through the private company Distance Mathematics Education Associates, Inc.
The non-credit courses are a great way to review course material you may have taken long ago, and forgotten, and do not need the official transcript or academic credits/units for the courses. Usually, a student enrolling in the non-credit courses already has the course on his/her official academic transcript.
Various issues that are special to the non-credit courses include the following:
- No grades; No Pass/Fail
Non-credit courses do not result in a grade. If you need a grade for completion of the course for any reason, you will need to enroll in one of the "for-credit" courses. - Non-credit courses do not satisfy any requirements
If you have specific requirements you need to satisfy for another school, college, or university, the non-credit courses will not suffice. We cannot provide any "official completion verification" to any school, college, or university. - Non-credit --> For-credit Jump
You cannot take a non-credit course to satisfy the prequisite for a for-credit course. The academic prerequisite requirements are such that the official academic transcript must indicate the completion of a prerequisite course. - Employer Reimbursement
Many Distance Calculus students are receiving reimbursement for course expenses from their employer. If you wish to take the non-credit version of the course, you will need to check with your employer to make sure they will still reimburse you for the costs of the course if the completion of the course will not result in a grade nor academic credits. In most cases, employers will only reimburse for course costs with successful completion of the course with a grade of "C" or better, which requires taking the "for-credit" course version.
Non-Credit Course Enrollment
If you wish to enroll in one of the non-credit courses below, registration is quite easy, and much different from the regular application process, since the non-credit courses are informal and not offered through an academic institution.To enroll in one of the non-credit courses below, simply click on the appropriate link below.
If you wish to pay by check for these courses, just choose the "Order by FAX" option in the LiveMath Store, print out the last page in the process, and mail that page with your check to:
Distance Calculus
P.O. Box 390833
Cambridge, MA 02139
Course: Introduction to Computer Science Via PHP
Description: Equivalent to the 3 credit-hour Introduction to Computer Science via PHP course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics:
Non-Credit Course Fee: $650
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Course: Intermediate Website Engineering with PHP/MySQL
Description: Equivalent to the 3 credit hour Intermediate Website Engineering with PHP/MySQL course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics:
Non-Credit Course Fee: $650
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Course: Precalculus
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Precalculus course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics: Properties of real numbers, order and absolute value, complex numbers, scientific notation, factoring polynomials, linear and quadratic equations, systems of equations, linear inequalities, and graphing, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, including identities, inverse trigonometric functions, and right triangle trigonometry.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $950
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Course: Applied Calculus
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit hour Applied Calculus course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics: An introduction to differential and integral calculus emphasizing applications to business and the life sciences. Topics covered will include limits, rules of differentiation, extreme value problems, curve sketching, exponential and logarithmic functions, techniques of integration, and area between curves. Includes a thorough review of high school algebra.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $950
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Course: Calculus I
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Calculus I course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics: A brief review of algebra and trigonometry; coordinate systems, analytical geometry, the derivative using the definition, limits, continuity, techniques of differentiation, Mean Value theorem and its applications.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $950
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Course: Calculus II
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Calculus II course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics: Further study of the integral, volume of a solid of revolution, length of a curve, area of a surface of revolution, work, moments, and centroids. Applications of differential and integral calculus to improper integrals, infinite series, polynomial approximations of functions, Taylor's Theorem, conics, polar coordinates, and vector analysis.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $950
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Course: Multivariable Calculus
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Multivariable Calculus course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.
Topics: Applications of differential and integral calculus to vector-valued functions, partial derivative, multiple integrals, vector field analysis, line and surface integrals, Jacobian transformations, Green, Stokes, and Gauss Theorems.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $950
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Course: Linear Algebra
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit hour Linear Algebra course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc.(Purchase of Mathematica for Students software not included)
Topics: Topics covered include solutions of systems of linear equations, matrices, linear transformations, bases and linear independence, determinants, orthogonality, singular values, eigenvectors and eigenvalues, rank, geometric applications.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $900
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Price does not include separate purchase of Mathematica Home Edition
Course: Probability Theory
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Probability Theory course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc. (Purchase of Mathematica for Students software not included)
Topics: An introduction to Calculus-based Probability theory and statistics. Topics include distributions, Monte-Carlo methods, probabilities, Markov’s Inequality, Chebyshev Theorem; discrete and continuous random variables, Central Limit Theorem.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $900
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Price does not include separate purchase of Mathematica Home Edition
Course: Differential Equations
Description: Equivalent to the 4 credit-hour Differential Equations course, but for non-credit, offered directly by DMEA, Inc. (Purchase of Mathematica for Students software not included)
Topics: An introductory course in ordinary differential equations with applications. Topics covered include first and second order differential equations, power series solutions, Laplace transforms, linear systems, numerical methods, and linearization methods.
Non-Credit Course Fee: $900
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Price does not include separate purchase of Mathematica Home Edition