literally just the first course in the cs major sequence. they didn't actually have to do any math. as I mentioned in a sibling comment, the department used cal

literally just the first course in the cs major sequence. they didn't actually have to do any math. as I mentioned in a sibling comment, the department used calc I as a proxy for the quality of your high school stem education. that was the official reason, anyway. there were a lot of courses with irrelevant prereqs. cs was by far the largest major at the school, and they were constantly short on faculty to actually teach a the courses. a cynical person might think that the track was designed deliberately to stop people from being able to take too many cs courses at once.