<p>University where I teach at…COB requires 2 easy stats and 1 calculus course.</p>
<p>Our math department had to create a special course for business majors because the Calculus 1 course was too hard for them.</p>
<p>Here is the description…
Quantitative methods for treating problems arising in management, economic sciences, related areas; introduction to differential and integral calculus</p>
<p>Not much of a calc class. Consistent with what I have seen at other schools.</p>
<p>I had five semesters of calculus while earning my BSEE. Now after a 40 year career in business in I/T, Finance and Supply Chain, mostly at senior levels in Fortune 500 firms, I cannot remember a single time I used calculus. Unless you’re a wizard of Wall Street (and we all know what they brought to us), I’m thinking calc is overrated for a business career.</p>
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<p>That course is typically called a “survey of Calculus.” It’s just Cal I sans trigonometry. So no derivatives and integrals of sines, cosines, tangents, and so forth.</p>
<p>Is it as rigorous as Cal I classic? Absolutely not. At my alma mater, almost all the professors went over proofs and dealt with the delta/epsilon definition of the limit, which I’m sure they don’t cover in the survey course. But it’s a little harder than what you’re suggesting.</p>
<p>Agree Jack. Over 30 years in business at major firms–never once needed anything beyond a little algebra and stats. It falls under the waste of time except if you want to understand the math behind econ and operations mgt.</p>
<p>I don’t know how you can cover calculus without trigonometry. Those trig functions sneak in even when you don’t expect them. You’re trying to take the integral of 1/(1+x^2), and it looks so innocent, but the answer is arctangent of x.</p>
<p>And aren’t a lot of business/economics models cyclical? How can you not do sines?</p>
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<p>I’d be happy to, but, that would of neccessity have to include whoever wrote post #15. Has someone else been using your computer?</p>