Teaching

Mathematics is taught throughout a number of faculties at Deakin University with core mathematics discipline units being offered by the School of Information Technology.  

 

Vision for our students

A Deakin Graduate who undertook mathematical units will

1. Demonstrate Proficiency with mathematical methodologies required to be successful in their chosen discipline
2. Display and transmit a positive attitude towards mathematics and show mathematical maturity
3. Be able to communicate mathematical reasoning and use mathematical language
4. Be able to use mathematical and logical thinking for solving real-world problems
5. Show mathematical intuition and an ability to translate their mathematical skills to other disciplines

 

Subjects offered at Deakin

1st year

• SIT106 Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
• SIT176 Mathematical Visualisation and Reasoning
• SIT190 Introduction to Functions, Relations and Graphs
• SIT191 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
• SIT192* Discrete Mathematics
• SIT194* Introduction to Mathematical Modelling
• SIT199 Applied Algebra and Statistics

 

2nd year

• SIT291* Mathematical Methods for Information Modelling
• SIT292* Linear Algebra for Data Analysis
• SIT281 Cryptography

 

3rd year

• SIT316 Optimisation and Constraint Programming
• SIT396* Complex Analysis
• SIT399* Optimization Modelling and Decision Analysis

 

* Part of the Mathematical Modelling major sequence

  

Honours

• SIT490 Honours Mathematics Research 1
• SIT492 Honours Mathematics Research 2
• SIT493 Honours Mathematics Research 3

 

Masters

• SIT787 Mathematics for Artificial Intelligence
• SIT718 Real World Analytics
• SIT741 Statistical Data Analysis
• SIT743 Bayesian Learning and Graphical Models
• SIT744 Deep Learning