So, in the face of a de facto pay cut at my job, I've been looking at trying to maximize the non-wage compensation I can get out. One of the things that my company offers is a tuition reimbursement for courses that are related to your development. I'm thinking of taking a statistics course, because I figure that statistics is one of the most portable fields there is. Plus, not a lot of people have formal education in it, so I think that it would be especially valuable to me. I also think that it's a very interesting field that I can sell to my HR department as related to my career.

I took some stats in college, and since I majored in biology I had to do a lot of work with stats for data analysis and such. But it's been a long time, and some of my skills have started to fade. I'm trying to decide between some of the few stats classes at a college near my home. Intro to Stats is the safest choice, since it's for people with no stats knowledge, but it might be less useful to me since I've taken that exact course. Applied Modeling and Statistics is also interesting and probably more widely applicable, but they recommend (though don't require) multivariable calculus, which I haven't taken. Finally, there's Probability and Mathematical Statistics, which seems like a decent midway point between the two (it only requires calc II). But it's been even longer since I've done calculus than since I took stats the first time around, and I don't want to use up my available tuition reimbursement on a class if it turns out I can't hack it.

I'm open to doing any review I need to get ready for whichever class I choose. But I don't really know how to assess the demands each course might place on me, nor how to evaluate how rusty my skills are. Or does someone know about a viable informal stats course that I can do, and apply the tuition reimbursement to something else?