This is my disappointment as well. Mathematics for robotics is quite challenging due to control theory and non-linear optimization, which do not seem to be the focus of this course.
I suspect this is a prerequisite course for the ones that are more topical.
I'm not familiar with this particular department approach, but scanning the syllabus it seems like a pretty standard introductory "leveling" course you use in a graduate program taking in students from lots of different undergrad degrees.
This is a class in the Robotics program at University of Michigan, which has a long and deep history in control theory and related topics. The detail you're missing is that the control theory classes are for both Robotics students and general EE's, ME's, Aerospace Engineers, etc, so they're not going to get combined with this. The thing this lets people avoid is the EE linear systems theory class, which broadly covers the same topics, probably along with the EE intro to probability class, since that's more for full on signal processing or stochastic control. It fits in nicely with the other curriculum components, just not as a general purpose math for robotics for a non-program student.
