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Comment author: TobyBartels 16 February 2015 05:03:40AM *  2 points [-]

As someone whose day-job largely consists of teaching Calculus 1, 2, and 3, I heartily with you about what they are like! If I could redesign the curriculum from scratch, Calculus 3 would definitely come before Calculus 2 (for the most part), and far fewer people would be required to ever take Calculus 2 at all.

ETA: I'm talking about the curriculum in most colleges in the U.S., so I hope that you are too; other countries' curricula can vary a lot.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2015 12:26:29PM 2 points [-]

Calc 3 for me was Multivariate Calculus.

Actually, yeah, requiring more people to take Multivariate Calculus and fewer people to take Assorted Sequence/Series and Integration Heuristics sounds like a fine idea.

Comment author: TobyBartels 17 February 2015 02:33:22AM 1 point [-]

Yep, sounds like we're talking about the same curriculum.