MAC 2233

3/5

Survey of Calculus 1

3 credits

Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer

Mathematics

Gen Ed: Mathematics

Applied differential and integral calculus for business majors. Lighter than MAC 2311 but still a common GPA trap for students who skip practice.

Typical workload: ~7 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 9 majors, and 58 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 11 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 2 (freshman year) and part of critical tracking for 9 majors.

Accounting

Agricultural Operations Management

Architecture

Business Administration, General Studies, BABA

Construction Management

Economics

Finance

Information Systems

Interdisciplinary Studies, Environmental Management in Agriculture and Natural Resources

Management

+1 more majors

Prerequisites

Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.

No prerequisites. Open to take anytime.

You need MAC 1140 or MAC 2311, and MAC 1140 first.

Common alternatives

Courses students weigh against this one (TrackPilot-curated; confirm against your major's requirements).

MAC 2311 · Analytic Geometry and Calculus 1

Survey of Calculus (business/life-science track) vs Analytic Geometry & Calculus (engineering/math track). Engineering, CS, and physics majors need MAC 2311; switching later costs a semester.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as MAC 2233.

ECO 2013 · 5 plans

ECO 2023 · 2 plans

MAC 1147 · 2 plans

What it unlocks

58 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).

AEB 3103 · Principles of Food and Resource Economics

AEB 3510 · Quantitative Methods in Food and Resource Economics

AOM 3734 · Irrigation Principles and Practices in Florida

AOM 4455 · Agricultural Operations and Systems

ECO 3101 · Intermediate Microeconomics