Where are you from that the school system is sane enough to assume calculus for undergrads?
There are places that don’t? Australian here too and calculus is assumed (for undergrads doing appropriate degrees). It is assumed because the applicable subjects are either an outright requirement of the course or there are remedial level subjects required as prereqs (that most students in the course will skip) for those that somehow managed to avoid learning calculus in school.
In canada, almost nobody learned calc in high school, it was an advanced placement course. We started learning calculus in first year engineering but didn’t really start using it in other courses until third year.
Partially this was because the 4 year degree program piggy backed on a 2 year technologist program. So we learned the basics and applied practicalness of everything without calculus in the first two years, then went back and learned all the deep theory in last two years.
There are places that don’t? Australian here too and calculus is assumed (for undergrads doing appropriate degrees). It is assumed because the applicable subjects are either an outright requirement of the course or there are remedial level subjects required as prereqs (that most students in the course will skip) for those that somehow managed to avoid learning calculus in school.
In canada, almost nobody learned calc in high school, it was an advanced placement course. We started learning calculus in first year engineering but didn’t really start using it in other courses until third year.
Partially this was because the 4 year degree program piggy backed on a 2 year technologist program. So we learned the basics and applied practicalness of everything without calculus in the first two years, then went back and learned all the deep theory in last two years.