<p>Can anyone (business majors) tell me about BUAD-310? How is it compared to MATH-218? Would you recommend taking BUAD-310 as soon as I complete MATH-218? </p>
<p>When I checked Web Registration last night, EVERY section was closed for BUAD-310. The course sequence recommends that I take BUAD-310 in the fall of my sophomore year, so I can take BUAD-311 in the spring, but would it hurt to take it later (as in taking BUAD-310 in the spring, and BUAD 311 in Fall 2008)? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The order doesn't really matter...I took 310 right after 218 just because I didn't want to relearn stats (but I ended up forgetting quite a bit over the summer). Initially I didn't register for 310 because everything was full, but eventually someone dropped so just wait a week or so. People will drop over the summer so check the system occasionally. </p>
<p>The course sequence is just a guideline so depending on where you are (say you finished all your GE's) you'll be taking different course at different times. Freshman year I took 304, GE's, econ, 218 so by the time sophomore year came, I ended up taking a lot of business classes (fall, 250a, 307, 310, 1 GE and spring, 250b, 311, 351 and writ-340)</p>
<p>How was BUAD-310 in terms of difficulty, particularly in comparison to MATH-218? I heard that BUAD-310 is much more theoretical and less number-oriented than MATH-218. How would you recommend preparing for it? Also, does the professor (who is it?) engage the students well in the learning?</p>
<p>Some spots opened up in the night section... 6 to 7:50 PM. I'm not really excited about it :(</p>
<p>Actually, last semester I took the TTH6pm section...not so bad but then the other sections were MWF which kinda sucked.
Professors vary and since there's no more mega section, they've had to hire more people. I had Tony Lin as my professor (he's a part time professor, full-time statistician at Boeing) and I really liked the way he taught.
In 218, you look at the problem, figure out what type, apply the formula an you're done.
With 310, there's more thinking involved. Explain why you are doing the problem a certain way and the reasoning behind the answer. Also, he gave us case studies which were based on actual data where we woul have to come up with a decision (expand the factory, get out of the business etc) based on our calculations. One asked whether we should send another sub in the ocean based on prior sub missions and their rates of cracks in the sub after the mission, the depth of the mission etc. It was actually data from the Challenger shuttle that crashed (obviously they mad the wrong decision then) but we actually got to discuss why (because even if the stats say don't go, politics and profit might make another choice)</p>
<p>Okay, so that was a lot of rambling, but basically I liked 310 way better than 218 (which was just really tedious and boring). 310 was much more difficult but since there's the curve, no big problem. Though the tests were killer (I think the first one had an average of 20%) but as long as you do better than the average, you're okay...no real way to prepare for it...just remember as much about normal dist and CLT.</p>