Timeline for Is it rude to ask the lecturer whether there is any “effective prerequisite”?
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| Sep 4, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | That said, I think in this particular case the OP is more concerned about what appears to be errors in the on-line listing of prerequisites, but I'm not entirely sure of this interpretation. And if that's not the case, then maybe simply googling for a recent syllabus for the course is all the OP needs to do, rather than trying to find a copy of the textbook. (University bookstores are not as stocked as they used to be, especially regarding textbooks from past-taught courses.) In spite of all this, Nate Eldredge's answer seems best to me, at least for the math course. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | +1 for "You can also probably get some idea of whether the class is too advanced or not by flipping through the textbook." When I was in college this seemed obvious to me, and I grew up in a fairly rural area (before the internet) and thus was probably a lot less knowledgable about certain things than many others (such as the fact that test prep for ACT and SAT tests was NOT confined a few percent of students who were rich and had private tutors and such). For this reason, I find it curious that this isn't done more often, or at least an explanation in the question for why this didn't work. | |
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| Sep 4, 2018 at 17:06 | history | answered | TimothyAWiseman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |