Adequate for Calc 1 Retake?

[MedPR]

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So I took Calculus 1 my freshman year of undergrad and got a C-. Primarily due to not studying and never going to class.. too much partying. You know how it is 😀

Anyway, I'm two semester into my DIY postbacc, which is being done at a CC and I don't know if this class is close enough to my original class to be considered for a grade replacement. If you can't tell, I'm applying DO and trying to take advantage of grade replacement. The calculus class that I took when I got my bachelors was "Math 141 Calculus 1".

Math 210 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1. 5 credits
Official course description: Topics included are limits and continuity of functions of a single variable, derivatives and antiderivatives of algebraic functions and trigonometric functions, and applications.

What's offputting to me is that "analytic geometry" is the first part of the course name.

 

[DrMidlife]

Analytic geometry is pretty normal in a calc I-IV course title. Do you remember looking at graphs and slopes as an introduction to derivatives? That's the geometry you're analyzing on the way to calc.

If there's another choice for a "calc I" course, let us know.

 

[MedPR]

Analytic geometry is pretty normal in a calc I-IV course title. Do you remember looking at graphs and slopes as an introduction to derivatives? That's the geometry you're analyzing on the way to calc.

If there's another choice for a "calc I" course, let us know.

The progression at this school is pre-calc, survey of calculus, analytic geometry and calc 1, analytic geometry and calc 2. I guess the "analytic geometry" in every calc level up to calc 3 (maybe 4, I don't remember) should've tipped me off that it was normal. I do remember that, but it never occured to me that it was geometry.. Makes sense though.

I know this class is better than a "survey" class. Right?

 

[mauberley]

The progression at this school is pre-calc, survey of calculus, analytic geometry and calc 1, analytic geometry and calc 2. I guess the "analytic geometry" in every calc level up to calc 3 (maybe 4, I don't remember) should've tipped me off that it was normal. I do remember that, but it never occured to me that it was geometry.. Makes sense though.

I know this class is better than a "survey" class. Right?

Should be.