2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

MA 201 Introduction to LaTeX

LaTeX is the free, open-sourced software that is the industry standard used for typesetting professional documents that involve mathematical notation. This course introduces essential components of a functioning LaTeX file, including document classes, preambles and packages, mathematical symbols, commands, display math, spacing and alignment, arrays, image insertion, and references. Students will be given multiple opportunities to practice typesetting documents using LaTeX. Templates for future use will be supplied and reviewed.  This course is Pass/Fail.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Minimum grade of C in MA 151 or permission of Department of Mathematics