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<p>Our local community college, until about five years ago, didn’t offer any math courses beyond precalculus. My daughter’s CC which is 40 minutes away, offers Calculus 3 as the highest math course but it’s only run in the summer and I don’t even know if they really run it because so few students pass Calculus 2. They have two professors that teach calculus 2, one at each campus. One of them is awful - doesn’t teach all of the material and does a poor job at it but still tests on the required materials. The other is an excellent teacher, covers most of the material and tests on all of it. You need to do some self-study in the latter course to do well.</p>
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<p>This may be a useful approach for some students but what about those looking for a more theoretical approach. Say, someone going into Computer Science to become a computer scientist. Perhaps they would benefit from abstract algebra topics in discrete math.</p>
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<p>I made a post about getting courses transferred. My son took an intro CS course at his state university. There were 90 lab assignments. They ranged from taking 15 minutes to 40 hours to do. They also had weekly quizzes, essays, 3,000 pages of reading. My daughter took the comparable course at the nearby Community College. There were five labs that took from one to four hours to do. The issue on transfer is that there might not be enough in the CC course to match the university course and the student would be at a disadvantage in courses that had it as a prerequisite.</p>
<p>I understand that there are very good Community Colleges. My understanding is that the Community College in California are quite good because the students go into the CSUs. But I have seen many community colleges where the academic level is not up to state university levels - both in person, in talking to professors about transfer students and in looking at the curricular materials at various community colleges in other parts of the country.</p>