<p>Hello, so before i transfer ill have college algebra and stats done, however i will not be able to take trig, and it seems as though the UC's don't offer trig, so i assumed this meant i go straight into pre-calc. Anyone have experience with this? i am asking because i was looking at the UCR course catalog and it says: " Prerequisite(s): a sufficiently high score on the
Mathematics Advisory Examination, as determined by
the Mathematics Department. A study of inequalities,
absolute value, functions, graphing, logarithms,
trigonometry, roots of polynomials, counting, vectors,
and other elementary concepts of mathematics Credit
is awarded for only one of MATH 004, MATH 005, or
MATH 008A."</p>
<p>So say if i don't do good on the advisory exam, what math would i take if the UC's don't offer trig and i have already completed college algebra? thank you in advanced!</p>
<p>I believe the statistics course offered at most community colleges is sufficient enough to fill the IGETC math requirement for most humanities/social science majors. Precalculus is also a minimum skill level course that satisfies this requirement.</p>
<p>You should check to make sure, then, that for your particular major you are actually required to take, or demonstrate knowledge of, precalculus. If not, since you have completed statistics, you’re done. If so, then be advised you probably will not be able to transfer to UC without completing it at your CCC first; if UCR makes an exception for you, then taking precalculus there should be no problem if you have already completed a college level algebra course. In precalculus, it is generally assumed that while most students have taken a trigonometry course, many have not. As such, most precalculus courses teach trigonometry beginning with the unit circle (and perhaps a brief review of plane/right-triangle trigonometry) and then quickly moving onto properties, graphs, identities, polar coordinates and parametric equations–if the course is rigorous, you may also deal with complex numbers and vectors, which will all require trigonometry. Again though, it is certainly possible to obtain an ‘A’ in precalculus without having taken a trigonometry course; you will just have to study very hard when the time comes. This of course assumes your algebra skills are sharp as well; precalculus is known by many students as the “killer course” since it is a very difficult class for students at that particular skill level in mathematics (but this also depends on the rigor of the teacher too).</p>
<p>For example, Pierce College requires you to take Trig. before you go on to take Pre-Cal. You can bypass this by taking the Math Placement test or you can talk to the Chairman of the Math Department and beg him to put you in Pre-Cal (usually the Chairman will make you take a test of some kind)</p>
<p>@Taylor, i don’t need it for my major, but i do need it for optometry school, but yeah, ive already been accepted into UCR, thats why i was wondering. because if i need to pass the exam in order to get into trig, and say i dont pass it, what class do they put me in, or is it different as a transfer student?</p>
<p>@Tabebi, its for UCR or another UC, i know that at CC you have to take Trig first, but the UC’s dont offer Trig.</p>
<p>Just take precalculus at UCR - you should be fine; I also can’t imagine they would have any prerequisites for that course since all incoming students are assumed to have at least college level algebra skills.</p>
<p>You can also do what many other students do and simply take the precalculus course (trigonometry if you need to beforehand) at a local CCC near whichever UC you attend. I cannot begin to tell you how many students from UC Davis and CSU Sacramento I have encountered taking CC classes at Los Rios such as chemistry, calculus and physics while also being enrolled in their respective university classes.</p>
<p>Also, most “assessment tests” for precalculus that require you to demonstrate some knowledge of trigonometry are computer-based, use repeated questions, are multiple choice, etc. I remember a couple years back when I started taking mathematics courses, I cheated the assessment test by retaking it five or so times until I finally got the score I needed to begin the sequence where I wanted to (trigonometry, ironically).</p>
<p>Good luck ~ again, the easiest thing to do would probably just take the course at UCR, study hard and get it over with.</p>