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Overview
Stanford Summer Session provides high-achieving and ambitious students a transformative educational experience at a world-class university.
By combining challenging academics with a rich array of extra-curricular programming, Stanford Summer Session successfully shares the University’s culture of innovation, academic excellence, and global responsibility.
Program highlights
The Calculus course from Stanford University - Summer Sessions is a review of elementary functions (including exponentials and logarithms), limits, rates of change, the derivative and its properties, applications of the derivative.
Programme Structure
Course content:
- Theory of functions (domain, range, graphing, composition, inverses)
- Examples of elementary functions (including exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and inverse trigonometric functions)
- Differentiation from the limit definition
- Geometric interpretation of the first derivative and of higher derivatives
- Linear approximation
- Computational techniques for derivatives: product rule, quotient rule, chain rule
- Applications of the chain rule: implicit differentiation and related rates
- Optimization
- Critical points
- First and second derivative tests for classification of critical points
- Mean Value Theorem
- Curve sketching
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 100
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Credits
3 SCH
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Mathematics View 65 other Short Courses in Mathematics in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
IELTS 7
TOEFL® IBT 100
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Student insurance
Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:
- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Prerequisites: Math Placement Diagnostic, Precalculus, Trigonometry, Advanced Algebra, and analysis of elementary functions (including Exponentials and Logarithms).
- Student Population: High School, Undergraduate, Graduate
Tuition Fee
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International
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
National
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months. -
In-State
5488 USD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5488 USD for the full programme during 2 months.
Living costs for Stanford
1100 - 1600 USD /month
Living costs
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Funding
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