Questions about second year and up math courses

Sorry, I've cleaned up in the post substantially. Let me try and explain:

EDIT 2: If you want to do math/cs at SFU, do math/cs at SFU. It's the same degree in the end. It's not like a BSc matters for anything beyond graduate studies anyways. (Sorry, it's true). The only difference here, (and this is all you need to know) is that your courses will mostly be curved, and your exams are going to be more difficult.

I don't want to do a math minor or joint major in math. However, I was hoping someone might say either "yeah, if you liked the epsilon-delta definition, you would love MATH 242," or, "Holy crap, MATH 242 is too hard, stay away. This is only for the strongest of math students."

There is so much help available if you need it. Professors have office hours that are rarely visited, and whichever courses have workshops also usually have one or two bored TAs because nobody ever shows up (except for one or two days before a midterm). A lot of courses in the 300 level also have lectures with a 1 hour weekly tutorial, so it really is 4 hours a week.

Like I said, in university office hours can be very busy. I gave the example of Schulte getting mobbed by CMPT 354 students (not 310 like I originally thought)--that's only an 85 student upper division class! MATH 310 is 192 students in the fall and 360 students in summer, and isn't served by any of the workshops. So your only chances to get help are during the tutorial, TA office hours or instructor office hours. I'd imagine that instructor office hours are always busy for such a large class, so you better pray the TA in your tutorial section is decent. This also applies to MACM 316 and to a lesser extent MATH 252.

As a side note, The exam you posted for MATH 2232 is roughly the same as the first midterm you'd get in MATH 240 (just 6 or 7 questions instead), except you would only get 50 minutes, and probably change a couple of those computation questions to proofs or extensions of a concept you probably haven't considered before.

Would you say that an equal amount (or even a higher amount) of knowledge is expected from students in a university math course, compared to a community college math course? I always thought that classes being 4 hours a week and calculators being allowed meant we could go into much more detail.

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