Course Adoption

This page is designed to provide some information for the instructor considering using the book as a required text for a course. First is detailed information about some of the logistics of using the book in your own course, followed by a list of courses that use the book.

FAQ: Versions and Costs

If you plan to use the book for your course, here are some answers to some common questions.

The online version is very easy to navigate, free, and available anywhere with an internet connection. Downloaded PDF versions of the text are, of course, also always free. You might be advised to save a copy locally, but the open license and available source code provides a guarantee of long-term availability.

A 524-page hardcover physical copy of the book may be purchased from many online retailers for as little as $33 (current as of 2013/08/17). When I have taught this course, I have emailed my students a few weeks before the semester begins with instructions on ordering, since manufacturing and delivery takes a few days.

I sometimes prefer to teach out of the very latest edition so I can track typos and changes, so I arrange a group purchase for my students at a copy shop. In a quantity of about 30 copies, the price for a double-sided loose-leaf version is about comparable to the hardcover price. It would appear that without a quantity discount, a purchase of a single copy is about double that. You can use a tool like pdftk to take a subset of one of the PDFs made available here, if you just want to use a portion of the book (include the title pages and the license, you are obligated by the license to do this).

I try to release a fairly stable and error-free version right before the start of the fall and spring semesters. These have version numbers that end in a "0" (.10, .20, etc).

No, you do not need my permission to make a "coursepack" copy for your students at your campus bookstore. As the copyright holder, I have granted you a license, which explicitly gives you the necessary permssions to do this. You can send your bookstore manager here if there are doubts.

Courses Using FCLA

If you are using the book, I would like to include your course in the list below. Please, please let me know, as it is incredibly helpful to have this information. Your name, your school, your course (plus term), with links as appropriate, is all I need.

Term	School	Location	Instructor	Link
Fall 2013	Cardinal Stritch University	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Carl Mueller	MT 325
Fall 2013	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Summer 2013	Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	Justin Hausauer	.
Fall 2012	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Spring 2012	Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences	Mumbai, India	Ajit Kumar	Computational Math Lab
Spring 2012	Westmont College	Santa Barbara, California	David Hunter	Course PDF
Winter 2012	University of Ottawa	Ottawa, Canada	Alistair Savage	Course Page
Spring 2012	Plymouth State University	Plymouth, New Hampshire	Dana Ernst	Course Page
Spring 2012	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Robert Beezer	Course Page
Fall 2011	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Fall 2011	University of Notre Dame	South Bend, Indiana	David Nickerson	Course PDF
Fall 2011 Winter 2012	Carleton University	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Paul Mezo	Course Page
Fall 2011	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Bryan Smith	Course Page
Spring 2011	Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts	David Cox	Course Page
Spring 2011	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Cynthia Gibson	.
Fall 2010	Felician College	Rutherford, New Jersey	David Molnar	Course Page
Fall 2010	Southern Connecticut State University	New Haven, Connecticut	Joe Fields
Fall 2010	Michigan Technological University	Houghton, Michigan	Don Kreher	Course Page
Fall 2010	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Fall 2010	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Bryan Smith	Course Page
Fall 2010	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Cynthia Gibson
Semester 2, 2010	University of Western Australia	Perth, Western Australia	Gordon Royle	Course Page
Spring 2010	Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts	Tanya Leise	Course Page
Spring 2010	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Bryan Smith	Course Page
Spring 2010	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Robert Beezer	Course Page
Fall 2009	Moorpark College	Moorpark, California	Curtis Paul
Fall 2009	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Fall 2009	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Bryan Smith	Course Page
Semester 2, 2009	University of Western Australia	Perth, Western Australia	Gordon Royle	Course Page
Spring 2009	Amherst College	Amherst, Massachusetts	Tanya Leise	Course Page
Spring 2009	Pacific University	Forest Grove, Oregon	Nancy Neudauer
Spring 2009	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Manley Perkel
Fall 2008	Colorado State University	Fort Collins, Colorado	Multiple Sections	1 2 3
Fall 2008	Smith College	Northampton, Massachusetts	Ruth Hass
Fall 2008	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Bryan Smith	Course Page
Fall 2008	Mount Saint Mary College	Newburgh, New York	Mike Daven	Course Page
Fall 2008	Wilbur Wright College	Chicago, Illinois	Hellen Colman	Course Page
Summer 2008	Central Washington U (Lynwood Center)	Lynwood, Washington	Chris Black
Spring 2008	St. Cloud State University	St. Cloud, Minnesota	William Branson	Course Page
Spring 2008	Miramar College	San Diego, California	Sean Raleigh	Course Page
Spring 2008	University of Puget Sound	Tacoma, Washington	Robert Beezer	Course Page
Fall 2007	Loyola Marymount University	Los Angeles, California	Herbert Medina