Is having calculus by graduation really important?

galoisien
Sun, 18 May 2008 02:39:18 +0000

Calculus does have an application in the humanities … higher statistics uses linear algebra (which is difficult to learn without calc). For exaples, phonetics in linguistics (the science of the sounds of human language) sees calculus applications with formants (resonance frequencies that characterise each unique vowel), which require Fourier transforms to analyse.

Can’t you take replacement courses in a community college?



You can’t take analysis (ie pre-cal?) over the summer?



Or even dual-enroll during the school year (which is what I did).



I’m not allowed to place into another course even if I take a placement test to show my capability.



Interesting policy… I’m really quite fed up with inflexible course placement requirements as a whole.