ROMBLON STATE UNIVERSITY

Extramural Campus
Agpudlos, San Andres, Romblon
OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION COURSE SYLLABUS
CALCULUS 1
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
1st Semester, A.Y. 2024-2025

VISION, MISSION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Vision
A research-based academic institution committed to excellence and service in nurturing globally competitive workforce towards sustainable
development.
Mission
Romblon State University shall nurture an academic environment that provides advanced education, higher technological and professional
instruction and technical expertise in agriculture and fisheries, forestry, engineering and technology, education, humanities, sciences and other relevant
fields of study and collaborate with other institutions and communities through responsive, relevant and research-based extension services.
Core Values
1. Stewardship
2. Competence
3. Resilience
4. Integrity
5. Balance
6. Excellence
7. Service
Goals
• Quality Education
• Globally Competitive Graduates
• Innovative and scientific approaches in teaching and learning
• Research competence and capability.
• Community extension services.
• Values, attitudes, critical thinking and lifelong skills
Objectives
 1. To develop relevant expertise and competence in the academic and deliver quality education for the total developments of the BSAg , BSES and
BSFO students;
2. To produce globally and competitive BSAg, BSES and BSFO graduates with skills geared toward enhancing employability and satisfying manpower
needs;
3. To develop creativity and scientific approaches, and encourage innovative ideas in the current trend of teaching;
4. To develop research competence among BSAg, BSES and BSFO students in order to contribute to the general knowledge;
5. To facilitate the development of skills and attitudes of the students undergoing OJT and pre- service teachers who shall be employed locally and
abroad;
6. To extend educational expertise for community development; and
7. To develop students’ moral character, critical thinking and aesthetic, leadership, environmental and cultural values.

Course Description:
This course covers basic concepts of plane analytic geometry, limits and continuity, derivatives, definite integral and their applications in the field of
environmental science.

Program Outcomes:

1. Articulate and discuss the latest developments in the specific field of practice (PQF level of descriptor).
2. Effectively communicate orally in writing using both in English and Filipino;
3. Work effectively and independently in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams (PQF level 6 descriptor);
4. Act in recognition of professional, social, and ethical responsibilities;
5. Preserve and promote “Filipino historical and cultural heritage” (based on RA 7722);
6. Generate and share knowledge relevant to specific fields in the study of agriculture;
7. Formulate and implement agricultural development plans and programs;
8. Apply the scientific methods in knowledge application;
9. Understand the concepts of agricultural productivity and sustainability in the context of national, regional, and global developments;
10. Engage in agricultural production and post-production activities;
11. Promote sound agricultural technologies to various clients and in the manpower development for agriculture; and
Employ relevant tools in information technology in solving agriculture-related problems

Course Code:
Credit Units: 3
Prerequisites: Students should have completed the subjects mathematics in the modern world and college algebra.

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, the students must be able to:
 Evaluate the behaviors and graphs of functions.
 Identify and analyze the limits of functions
 Find the derivatives of various function types
 Examine the application of derivative calculation techniques
 Use basic integration techniques to calculate area
 PROGRAM OUTCOMES
COURSE OUTCOMES
1 2 3 4 5
1. Determine the existence of, estimate numerically and graphically, and find algebraically the / / / / /
limits of functions.
2. Recognize and determine infinite limits and limits at infinity and interpret with / / / / /
respect to asymptotic behavior
3. Determine continuity at a point or at intervals and distinguish between discontinuities at a / / / / /
point
4. Determine the derivative of a function using the limit definition. Interpret the derivative as a
slope of the tangent line to a graph, the slope of a graph at a point, and the rate of change / / / / /
of a dependent variable with respect to an independent variable.
5. Determine the derivative and higher derivatives of a function explicitly using derivative / / / / /
formulas.
6. Determine derivatives implicitly / / / / /
7. Solve related rate problems / / / / /
8. Determine absolute extrema for continuous function on a closed interval. Use these and / / / / /
other appropriate techniques to solve optimization problems.
9. Use the first and second derivatives to analyze and sketch the graph of a function, including
asymptotes, intervals on which the graph is increasing, decreasing, concave up or concave / / / / /
down, and any local extrema or inflection points
10. Determine antiderivatives and indefinite integrals and integrate by substitution / / / / /
11. Use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to evaluate definite integrals / / / / /
12. Use definite integral to find areas of plane regions. / / / / /

Course Requirements:
1. Quiz
2. Participation
3. Activity
4. Major Examinations
Course Grading System
A.Midterm/Final Examination
Midterm and Final examination will be in a form of Paper and pen test. The output includes the topic that was covered within the time given before
midterm or final exam.
B.Participation
 Participation will be administered in every topic / subtopic. Attendance will also be checked if the student is present regularly
C. Quiz
At the end of every topic/subtopic, a quiz will be administered.
D.Activity
Activity will be part on some of topics reports or activities via term paper
Course Grading System
Participation…………………………….……….……….. 15%
Quiz………………………………………….…….……….. 20%
Activity……………………………………………………... 25%
Major Examinations………………………………….….. 40%
Wee Learning outcomes Learning activities Assessment tasks
Topics
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Orientation Orientation of Course
Requirement
1 Orientation Participation
Introducing
themselves

 Define and calculate limits of functions by  Limits

substitution, graphical investigation,  Continuity
numerical approximation, algebra, or some  Properties of limits
combinations of these  Limits at infinity /
 Use properties of limits to test functions for infinite limits Lectures Participation
2-4 continuity  Kinds of discontinuity
 Describe the behavior of functions when the Activity or Quiz
values in its domain or range outgrow all finite
bounds.
 Explain the concept of continuity. Describe
the kinds of discontinuities and determine the
discontinuity points of a function.
 Express differentiation rules. Recognize higher  Derivatives
order derivatives  Rules of differentiation
 Differentiate functions using implicit  Derivatives of trigonometric
differentiation functions Lectures Participation
5-9  Differentiate exponential and logarithmic  Chain rule
functions  Implicit differentiation Activity or Quiz
 Exponential and logarithmic
functions

10 MIDTERM
  Apply the concept of derivative to related rate  Extreme value of a function
problems  Sketching graph of a function
 Find the extreme value of a function.  First and second derivative tests Lectures Participation
11-
12 Determine the intervals of concavity of a  Points of inflection, increasing and
Activity or Quiz
function. Sketch the graph of a function. decreasing functions
 Modeling and optimization
 Related rates
 Apply summation rules  Estimating with finite sum
 Interpret definite integrals  Definite integrals
 Explain the fundamental theorem of calculus  Riemann Sums Lectures Participation
13-  Apply substitution to indefinite and definite  Definite integrals and antiderivatives
17 integrals  Fundamental theorem of calculus Activity or Quiz
 Find areas of plane regions using definite  Trapezoidal rule of area approximation
integrals

18 FINAL

References:
1. Finney, Ross L., Demana, Franklin D., Waits, Bert K., & Kennedy , Paul (2006) Calculus: Graphical, Numerical and Algebraic (3 rd ed). Boston: Prentice Hall
2. Nguyen, Simone & Kemp, Robert (2020) Business Calculus , Long Beach City College
3. Smith, Robert T., & Minton, Roland, B ( 2012) Calculus, New York: McGraw Hill

Prepared by: Approved by:

RAUL M.MARIN ENGR ALFREDO F. FORTU, JR, PH.D.

Parttime teacher Campus Director