[SuperLuminal]

"Three sections of linear algebra? By one instructor? I’m guessing it was pretty watered down."

IMHO, they probably meant three semesters of linear algebra...

Also, IMHO, teaching linear algebra and calculus is not a very good fit for a new instructor... Unless it was tensor algebra and tensor calculus...

[bwest]

Applied linear algebra is usually taught together with multivariate calculus.