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From APASC #147, May 7, 2008, UCC #160, October 2, 2008
Academic Regulations, Page 47, 2008-09 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit by Examination
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General Provisions
Eligibility for credit by examination is subject to several restrictions and conditions. Students must be enrolled at
NIU to receive credit by examination. All credit by examination awarded by NIU will be posted to the student’s
record with the symbol CR and will not be entered until after the 15th day of the student’s first semester. No
specific grade is attached to this credit; however, credit by examination will meet any requirement for a grade or
“C” or better in the course for which credit has been awarded.
From GEC #169, September 18, 2008, UCC #160, October 2, 2008
University Graduation Requirements, Page 31, 2008-09 Undergraduate Catalog
Core Competency Course Descriptions (adding descriptions)
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ENGL 105.
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ISYE 335. Statistics for Engineering (3). Applications of data analysis to engineering. Elementary properties of
data, displaying data, exploratory data analysis, fitting data to distributions using both nonparametric and
parametric methods, comparing means and variability, simple regression, and design of experiments. PRQ: MATH
230.
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MATH 229.
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STAT 208. Basic Statistics (3). Designed to provide students with an understanding of reasoning involved in the
statistician's approach to a variety of problems. Not open for credit toward the major or minor in mathematical
sciences. Not open for credit to students with credit in an upper-division statistics course or in OMIS 324 or UBUS
223. Not used in major or minor GPA calculation for mathematical sciences majors or minors.
STAT 301. Elementary Statistics (4). Introduction to basic concepts in statistical methods including probability,
theoretical and empirical distributions, estimation, tests of hypotheses, linear regression and correlation, and single
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classification analysis of variance procedures. Not available for credit toward the major in mathematical sciences.
Not used in major GPA calculation for mathematical sciences majors. PRQ: MATH 206 or MATH 210 or MATH
211 or MATH 229.
STAT 350. Introduction to Probability and Statistics (3). Introduction to the basic ideas and fundamental laws of
probability including sample spaces, events, independence, random variables, special probability distributions and
elementary statistical inference. PRQ: PRQ: MATH 230.
UBUS 223. Introduction to Business Statistics (3). Collection and presentation of data, measures of central
tendency and variability, probability, sampling and sampling distributions, statistical inferences, simple linear
regression and correlation, with emphasis on applications of these topics to business situations. PRQ: MATH 210
or MATH 211 or MATH 229 or consent of college.