<p>There is no class at Reed that would satisfy the science requirement but is not ‘real’ science. Your options for that group are really just chemistry, biology and physics. In each case you would be taking science with prospective science majors.</p>
<p>Most people who don’t care about science take biology (though you can’t just take Bio 101; you also need to take Bio 102), but that is the result of a misjudgement of biology as less ‘hard’ than physics or chemistry. In truth biology is taught in the least methodical manner out of the three and is therefore potentially a very confusing and arduous body of knowledge to absorb. Physics requires calculus and is also a bit uneven through the year. I’d say chemistry looks like the best intro course out of the three.</p>
<p>Some people at Reed elect to take science elsewhere over the summer and get the credits transferred to Reed in the hope that biology at another university or community college would be easier and take less out of them in terms of time and energy since they’re not ‘math and science people.’ That is logistically complicated and kind of pathetic but an option nonetheless.</p>