Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics

The MAA's Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) is charged with making recommendations to guide mathematics departments in designing curricula for their undergraduate students.

See the most recent updates for the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide.

View two versions of the 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide to Majors in the Mathematical Science:
The principles contained in the Overview were approved by the board of Governors in August 2014.

• 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide (abridged printed version)
• 2015 CUPM Curriculum Guide (entire Guide - including drafts of all program and course area reports)
• CUPM 2015 brochure

Support for this MAA program is provided by the National Science Foundation (grant DUE-1228636).

Related:

• CUPM Recommendations: The First Forty Years
• CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004
• About CUPM
• Illustrative Resources
• Past CUPM Reports
• CUPM Deep History

Links to reports from CUPM

• Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences in 2010: What Should Students Know?
• Mathematics Research by Undergraduates: Costs and Benefits to Faculty and the Institution - a report of the CUPM Subcommittee on Research by Undergraduates (pdf)

Other Links

• 2012 survey article on the history of the undergraduate program by Alan Tucker
• CRAFTY Guidelines for College Algebra (approved January 2007)
• Teaching Research: Encouraging Discoveries - Francis Su's 2006 Leitzel Lecture