When was this - "Basically everyone had to take calculus"
by dfw (2021-01-04 18:53:33)

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It hasn't been the case since at least the 1950's (if then) according to a math professor who taught from the early 60's through the mid 00's and until this year continued to go in to the office daily.

In the colleges of science and engineering, calculus was required. For A&L and Business, it was not.

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by HTownND  (2021-01-04 20:57:28)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

But the A&L and Business math was calculus light, right?

It is my understanding that there are more intro math courses than their used to be, which used to be, from memory, calculus light, calculus and badass engineer math.

There is more variety in that calculus light space than there used to be.

Although I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.

I know I took the regular calculus, but the other option below that (and there was just one) was much like my HS pre calculus curriculum.

Put another way

The number of classes below 10240 seems to have grown

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Calc "light" in days of yore might have been...
by Kbyrnes  (2021-01-04 21:22:20)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

...a combination of trig and analysis, which was a class I took in high school before calculus.