Analytical Reasonings-Gen Ed?

No problem. Unfortunately, I can’t know what would be easier for you as everyone has different strengths. I am NOT a math person by any stretch of the imagination, but my son is an engineer, so math comes naturally to him. Where you would like to avoid analytical reasoning, he would have preferred to avoid humanities. However, Maryland is really pretty awesome in the variety of offerings to fulfill gen eds. With perhaps the exception of FSAR, which seems to be all about stats/probability within a variety of fields, most gen eds have some pretty good/interesting options with a wider range. So, from my personal standpoint, I might go for the philosophy/logic class? If you are somewhat ok in math but just don’t prefer it, you might want to go for the elementary calc…?

Daughter at another university was looking to take the easiest math possible because she doesn’t like it (even though she is actually decent at math and got an impressive math score on SAT). Turns out the “easy” math class is actually harder to understand than the straight up calc class because the beauty of that math is that there is one right answer. The “easy” math is more fuzzy crap and not as straight forward right/wrong.

If you are looking to take the class at a community college, be sure that the class you sign up for will actually count for credit in the area you want it to. Use this link - https://ntst.umd.edu/tce/ Just plug in the community college and state to get a database of specific courses – and it will tell you if it has a direct equivalent at Maryland.

Use this link to help interpret the data http://transfercredit.umd.edu/tcdbhelp.html.

As an example, say you attend Hagerstown Community College, the only classes that transfer to fulfill the FSAR requirement are MAT106, MAT109, MAT119, MAT164 and MAT203 as per this database of pre-evaluated courses for transfer credit https://ntst.umd.edu/tce/display-inst-courses.html?instCode=524210

Finally, one other option to consider is study abroad. I highly recommend it. Not only is it a great experience, but you can get some gen eds done there as an alternative