Pre-Calc and Trig

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<p>I am an aspiring freshman Comp Sci major, and was wondering about the rigor of taking Pre-Calc and Trig at the same time. I'm fairly competent at math, but I am kinda nervous about taking 5 credit hours of it. So basically my question is, would it be a bad idea/overly difficult to take them both at the same time? </p>

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<p>Take them both, it’ll be fine. In a lot of respects, they go hand in hand. In high school, my pre-calc. class was combined with trig and it was super easy. Probably more difficult in college, but I still wouldn’t worry about it.</p>

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<p>Yeah, they go hand in hand, so you might as well take them together. </p>

<p>If you’re going for the B.S. in Comp Sci, you’ll be required to take up to Calc 2 for your degree- and to stay “on track” you have to pass it by the end of your fourth semester. So if you don’t take pre-calc and trig together, you may end up actually behind in your major. <a href=“http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/computer_science_bs.html”>http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/computer_science_bs.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>If you’re going for the B.A. in Comp Sci, it looks like you only need College Algebra and the Intro to Statistics class. <a href=“http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/computer_science_ba.html”>http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/computer_science_ba.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;