Rutgers places Math 152 in the same demanding math-and-physical-sciences sequence, and public student discussion consistently treats it as one of the harder lower-division math requirements.

The official course page combines lectures, workshops, pre-class assignments, write-ups, quizzes, and a wide learning-goals list that spans integration through series and complex numbers.

Official Rutgers materials cover a very broad topic range in one term, and student advice repeatedly says the course is hard to recover in once you fall behind.

The official structure emphasizes workshop work, homework, and exams instead of long project-style deliverables.

Rutgers says workshop problems feed directly into midterm quizzes and the final exam, so assessments appear to drive much of the course experience even without one public all-sections grading sheet here.

The official description and learning-goals document stay fully inside advanced calculus territory, including techniques of integration, convergence tests, power series, and polar work.

Students often describe the class as tool-selection heavy, so success depends on recognizing families of techniques and tests more than on pure recall alone.

Infinite series, convergence tests, and Taylor expansions push the course beyond routine computation into more conceptual reasoning about long-run behavior.

Rutgers explicitly lists Calc I as the prerequisite, and Math 152 is a direct continuation of that sequence rather than a reset.

The course uses textbook-backed study, but the official structure and student advice both focus more on problem practice and workshop prep than on heavy reading volume.