The course intends to prepare social science students with basic concepts and materials from mathematics that necessitate a good foundation to treat some mathematical applications in social science. This course rigorously discusses the basic concepts of logic and set theory, the real number system, solving equations and inequalities, relations and types of functions, polynomial and rational functions, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions, and their graphs, matrices, determinants, and systems of linear equations; introduction to calculus.