<p>Hello all, </p>
<p>Right now, I am enrolled in Econ 101 this semester, but I've heard a lot of talk about how this class is cutthroat b/c of the people wanting to get into B-school (and those majoring in econ) and the brutal curving system. What are other SS classes that I can take to fulfill the SS requirement for CoE that are easier (less competitive) than the Econ class?</p>
<p>And to confirm, how many weeks do I have to make this change? </p>
<p>-ab2013</p>
<p>I would take Econ 101 second semester. Its a lot less competitive.</p>
<p>if you want to look for courses with SS go to </p>
<p>[LSA</a> Course Guide](<a href=“U-M Weblogin - Stale Request”>U-M Weblogin - Stale Request)</p>
<p>and go to 3 or 4 credits and Credit Distribution - SS</p>
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<p>How would it be less competitive? Fewer B-school people taking the class? So would taking Econ 102 now help more? </p>
<p>On the other hand, should I do HU? </p>
<p>SSs</p>
<p>History
Poly Sci
Pub Pol
Psych
Socio</p>
<p>^Would Psych/Poly/Pub be better?</p>
<p>Well Econ 101 is required for several engineering majors so its simply ideal to take it just in case you change majors. I wouldn’t advise taking Econ 102 since you won’t be needing it unless you choose to do an Econ minor, or doing your sequence in Econ. That said, the COE doesn’t require any credits in Econ but it does require 6 Humanities Credits, 16 overall Humanities/Social Science Credits, and sequence of two HU/SS credits, one being upper level. You can take 16 HU credits and fulfill this requirement. Or you can take 10 SS and 6 HU credits. If you really want to take a SS, any class is fine given that most SS/HU credits are similar in difficulty. Just take a course you’re interested in.</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to take Poly Sci, but I don’t know anything about it (which makes it interesting for me but would also make the class harder for me b/c I don’t know anything about it). </p>
<p>Right now I’m in 140 Lorch sitting in lecture (an hour early). I just passed by Gerson’s office … she was talking to Malone. I wanted to talk to Gerson about taking this class, but she looks really intimidating with all her wavy hair.</p>
<p>Gerson looks like professor Trelawney from harry potter. Anyways…most introductory classes can be taken with no prior knowledge of the course. Maybe sit in for the poly sci course to see how the course is run .</p>
<p>Hmm i’ll try doing that. I did manage to talk to Gerson after class, and all she did was assure me that engineers tend to do really well in her class (better than the B-School people sometimes) because of logic and math skills (apparently) and that AP background helps, but she tends to go more in depth than AP does. </p>
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<p>Heck, she even walks and talks like Trelawney.</p>
<p>Still, I will be in a poly sci lec just to see how it’s like and after or before lec I’ll try to talk to the prof. The only problem is that it wouldn’t give me much time to get to Math.</p>
<p>Is Econ 101 easier 2nd semester?</p>
<p>You can try double majoring in economics and political science.</p>
<p>^UMich CoE has SS/HU graduation requirements, which means you need to take a sequence of social science classes (including a higher level class) and humanities class. I’m looking to double major in computer science/engineering and in math, not in econ and poly sci.</p>
<p>My advisor told me that Econ 101 would be slightly easier during the second semester.</p>
<p>^Makes sense b/c there aren’t the B-school people who are fighting for the A, so less competition for the curve. So what should I take for HU? I heard English is all filled up (not good anyways b/c too much work). Should I go with a language for HU? </p>
<p>Today first lecture Gerson (aka Trelawney) did a survey on why people were taking Econ 101. Half the hands went up when she asked if people were applying for the B school. I’m in trouble if I don’t drop. :(</p>
<p>You’ve got it totally backwards regarding the B-school wannabes taking the course. Most of them aren’t that strong mathematically and as an engineering student you shouldn’t have any problem beating them on the curve.</p>
<p>^But still they work SO hard (then again I work very hard too). I’m just afraid that I’ll lose on the curve. And math doesn’t seem like it’s the most important thing in Econ 101 (though even Gerson said that engineers tend to do fairly well in the class)</p>
<p>Plus, some of those philosophy classes sound really cool.</p>
<p>^And chinaismine … are you a sophomore or have you taken Econ 101 yet?</p>
<p>I had no interest in taking econ so I fulfilled my SS requirement with other courses. What I said is based on what I’ve heard from other engineers who have taken the class. That being said, if philosophy sounds more interesting to you, you should go ahead and take that instead.</p>
<p>^Philosophy is HU.</p>
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So your saying one majoring in economics and political science will not complete UMich graduate requirements?</p>
<p>Philosophy is interesting b/c it seems like there’s more freedom in thought than in English, where you just analyze some old “classic” piece of literature. I like that. And plus, some of the classes are small, and I have to finish my HU reqs sooner or later (I have English credit so all I need now is another HU class and I’m all set there)</p>
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<p>What? One majoring in econ and poli sci would have different grad reqs b/c you’d be part of LSA not CoE. I’m with CoE, so I’m not very familiar with LSA’s grad reqs (but if I want to double major in math as well that would be problematic).</p>
<p>^I don’t think they do double majors. They do minors and “areas of concentration” which are similar to double majors. (I noticed the same thing for Econ by the way) The requirements for those are here: [UM</a> Mathematics-UG Concentration](<a href=“http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/concentration.shtml]UM”>http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/concentration.shtml) and here: [UM</a> Mathematics-UG Minor](<a href=“http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/minor.shtml]UM”>http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/minor.shtml) They don’t appear to require the general requirements for LSA.</p>
<p>One thing I noticed was that after the CoE general requirements, a math minor would just be 3 more classes.</p>