According to the author, the course is "for underclassmen who are majoring in engineering or sciences", but she is a humanities student who wants to "explore STEM fields."
Isn't it obvious that the course is not designed for her learning purpose?
Isn't it obvious that the course is not designed for her learning purpose?
The idea that a 200-level course should be unapproachable for an interested person with a stronger mathematics background than I have, with an ostensibly mathematics-based degree, is absolutely silly. I took 300 and 400-level classes in economics, in English, in history and philosophy. I never felt unwelcome or incapable.
Really? I mean, you probably did have linear algebra in high school, it was just "disguised" (you may not have seen matrices and vectors, but probably did solve linear equations of multiple variables). I'm surprised about the college thing, though. I thought every CS degree (in the US at least) required at least through linear algebra (linear algebra with applications, probably not linear algebra with proofs and theory).
I learned what a (mathematical) vector was offhandedly in college, but I think it was from talking to someone, not in a class.