a little background I am currently a community college student in my second year at American River College in Sacramento, California. But I changed my major at the end of last year from a music recording certificate without any intent to transfer to an associates in social science with the intent to transfer and double major in philosophy and theology or religious studies (depends on if I go to public or catholic school for my bachelors). now I have been thinking of adding a minor in one of the natural or physical sciences to my transcript specifically physics astronomy or biology the problem being math is my worst subject and I am starting in remedial classes due to my performance in high school I noticed I would have to make it through Calculus I in order to take anything beyond the intro course for physics. (this is problematic not because of far behind I am I am fine with working my way up in mathematics and learning everything fresh but because I have to make it through statistics for the philosophy major after geometry or Algebra 2 depending on your school statistics branches off from the rest of the math studies from what I’m aware) if I were to do that I would be taking virtually every math course available and at that point mind as well be minoring in mathematics or statistics. physics seemed the most interesting to me out of the sciences that I find interesting as a possible minor but the amount of time the extra math course I would need to take trows me off would astronomy or biology be the same way?
Biology will require somewhat less math than physics but still Calculus 1 & 2 is a bare minimum. Astronomy is more like Physics, you will need Calculus !, 2, 3 and Differential equations too.
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