The course in question contains topics like imaginary numbers, sequences/series, and conic sections along with the more practical topics like basic inequalities

The course in question contains topics like imaginary numbers, sequences/series, and conic sections along with the more practical topics like basic inequalities, graphs of functions, and simple systems of equations. The alternative pathways program seems to swap out these topics for basic topics in probability, statistics, and the like. Seems reasonable to me.