University courses and their tendency to jump around between literature chapters

[Peter1986]

I have studied at university for 3 years now ("Engineering Physics & Electrical Engineering") and one thing that I have always found fairly irritating is that a lot of courses have a tendency to go through the chapters in the course literature in a seemingly arbitrary order.
Yes, the first couple courses did follow a somewhat logical chapter order (starting with the first chapters and actually proceeding with the subsequent chapters after that, possibly skipping a few chapters in a few places), but some of my later courses have felt much less consistent.
They will frequently jump way ahead, like from chapter 6 to chapter 15 or something ridiculous like that, and then actually jump back to earlier chapters some time later, and then forward to the later chapters again.
Some schedules seriously look like that, and this is quite an issue for me, because I don't like studying that way - it just feels unnatural.
Yes, I can study that way, but I don't like it, and some of the literature has even mentioned from the very beginning that they were written specifically to build upon earlier chapters (like Chemistry³, for example).

I prefer to follow a logical order without having to rely on lectures and "extra material" or whatever, so I frequently find myself completely ignoring the course schedules and just reading through the entire book instead - at least up to the latest scheduled chapter.
Of course, this will require some extra work, but I find this very rewarding, and, at least to me, this actually makes things easier, because I get a full picture of the courses - and this also eliminates the risks that I will run into some chapter that uses a lot of terminology and ideas that were defined and developed in an earlier chapter that we were never supposed to read - I have lost count on how many times my course books have been like "...as we learned in Unread Previous Chapter...".

Discuss.