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I've taken Human Origins, Western Civ, Health &Wellness, Sociology, the self-paced Eng 101, and currently in Astronomy and Human Communication.
To me, Health & Wellness was easy. A good chunk of it is common sense. Western Civ was second-easiest.
Human Origins was a pain because I can't remember from Anthepicanus Africanus and Hippopatumus Rickrollicus and all these genus and species stuff. Goes in one eye and out the other and was just an absolute bore.
If you've taken communications courses or psychology, Sociology is easy. Eng 101 is all self-assessment so it's a grind to put out all the material, but you're grading yourself, so you just make sure you do enough to give yourself full marks.
Western Civ was a breeze for me personally because I'd very recently taken Art history I and II via sophia... a lot of the art and architecture overlap with that quite a bit. I've also long read about ancient Rome and ancient Greece and watched a lot of pre-alien history channel because it's a subject of much interest. As a history buff it's just never not fascinating to me.
To me, Astronomy is by far the hardest. It has the heaviest workload of quizzes and content mastery and extracurricular projects and then those dreaded MATH LABS! (I hate math.) It's really interesting but for me it's a real bear to slog through all the content.
Keep in mind for most of these courses, the quizzes/homework are open book exept for the proctored Final (with only a couple of exceptions.) If you put in the 'legwork' of referencing the material, you can earn a good grade. Also, you can't get less than 100 on each Content Mastery. Those modules repeat by design until you get everything right and are very helpful in prepping for the quizzes most of the time.
There's no upfront cost (currently) and if you do poorly, there's no obligation to put it on your transcript. Sign up for everything and drop what you don't like if that's your style.
It's no-risk, high reward. Try everything and see what you like.

I’m in Astronomy right now. I’m really enjoying it and I like the Professor, he’s entertaining and informative. I get the frustration with the labs, though. Particularly if you hate math or haven’t had a refresher in a while. Each week there are some easy lab questions, some more challenging questions and 1-3 that are a bit of a gut punch. Luckily, the Discussion forums are very helpful. Quiz 2 is closed book and it had a couple of challenging lab style questions that were unfamiliar. :/ I needed a margarita after that quiz this week. Lol. Quiz 1&3 are open book, so we’ve been able to look up things and find help. I’m looking forward to open book again on Quiz 3.

Students need to be really comfortable with rearranging formulas and combining formulas or doing multi step problems with multiple formulas. They’re all pretty much word problems. Also, nearly every problem requires unit conversions, often with less familiar units. Most things need to be changed from Km, AU, Lightyears, nm, etc to m. Or hours, days, years, to seconds. Then there’s the odd formula that doesn’t require conversion and mixes them, just to keep things interesting I guess. Lol. And every problem uses scientific notation. I think the math isn’t terribly hard, but the unfamiliar units, formulas and nearly 100% use of scientific notation makes it feel harder and definitely more confusing, particularly if the units aren’t specified in the formula. I’m thinking this Astronomy course might be a nice primer to transition to college physics courses.

I’m getting really comfortable with the scientific calculator lately, between this class, the Sophia College Algebra and Statistics classes I finished last month, and now the self paced ASU College Algebra course. I used to hate math, but I’m kinda jammin on it these days. I wish all RA college courses were low stress like this, with the option to repeat with no record of failure. It’s way less stressful as an adult with a busy life.


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