<p>I dropped the class today. It wasn't so much the difficulty (I actually liked the class as I'm the only person who actually considers proofs to be the most palatable form of math) as it was the "i'm not going to get any real benefit from this and we're trying to sell the house, look for one, buy one, and so on and so forth." I wouldn't get credit for the course as UM has no Trig course and they won't let me audit it (you can't switch a credit class to audit apparently). Futhermore, I would have to miss a few days of class to go house hunting with my parents and go to orientation, and the class would give me no real "leg up" as the math placement test is taken at Orientation (late June and the class ends mid-July). </p>
<p>I didn't have to talk to professor as the person that talked to him right before me had the same question about PreCal/Calc. The professor said that the class will not cover all PreCalc material like conic ssections, but he would go over it with you if you bought the PreCal book. Very nice man, but at this point, I was thinking it would just be easier to take it at UM and if necessary, take Calc the first summer.</p>
<p>As for the placement testing, the school (being a CC) is very mechanical. The test is computerized, and as you pass one section, you go onto the next section (the order is something like Basic Math, PreAlgebra, Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Trig, PreCal, Calc). As I didn't have Trig, I didn't score high enough on that section to have the opprotunity to enter PreCal. You are more or less forbidden to register for a course you don't test into, and something tells me it would be a losing battle to argue PreCal placement.</p>
<p>There will be no record of the course on my transcript, not even A W (If there had been, I wouldn't have dropped.)</p>
<p>All in all, I think I made the right decision (though I would have loved to audit it) when considering all the other stuff going on, but the Trig before PreqCal thing kind seems lik an anonamoly.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input.</p>