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So my engineering program has me taking LA and Diff. Eq. in the same semester, after Calc II and before Calc III. I don't understand why that is...what would be the idea behind this?
huskerwr38 said:Yea, no problem it's University of Nebraska-Omaha. Here is a link to a sample of classes,
http://www.ceen.unomaha.edu/undergrad/pre-ee-xfer.php"
jtbell said:Do they offer LA and DE only in the fall, and Calc III only in the spring? If so, I can only speculate that it might be done that way in order to distribute the teaching load properly among X number of faculty within the math department.
If they do offer Calc III in the fall and LA/DE in the spring, I don't see any reason why you couldn't switch those courses around.
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