<p>Hi everyone, I am an incoming pre-engineering freshman trying to plan out my math classes for the next two years. I am considering taking AMATH 351 and 352 instead of MATH 307 and 308, is this a good idea?</p>
<p>To fulfill Aero Astro requirements I would have six math classes: MATH 125, 126, 324, and AMATH 351, 352, 301. What's the best order to take these classes in?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Take a close look at past syllabuses for math 307/308 vs amath 351/352. The courses are not exactly equivalent. The amath courses tend to have a faster pace, cover more material, and include matlab programming. If you go the amath route, a 4th amath course would give you an amath minor.</p>
<p>If you aren’t going to take CSE 142, then you should take amath 301 before 351 or 352, because while matlab is not assumed knowledge for the latter two, some programming background is.</p>
<p>Order:
math 125
math 126
amath 301 (concurrent with math 126 OK)
amath 351
amath 352 (concurrent with amath 351 is OK)
math 324 (or perhaps amath 401 if you want an amath minor)</p>
<p>I’m going to be taking Math 120 as a freshman. Should I take it Autumn Quarter or wait till Winter/Spring?</p>
<p>@triseradad Thank you so much! This was really helpful.</p>
<p>One thing I would add is that the amath dept differs from the math dept in grading rubric: hw is typcially worth 50% or more of the grade in amath classes, vs 10% or less in math classes. But the problem sets in amath are typically longer and harder.</p>