<p>Econ, like pretty much every major at Wes except the hard sciences, tends to be theory-heavy, not application-heavy. This trend of focusing on theory is broad-ranging, and applies to everything from Econ to Math to Sociology to Film. While there’s definitely a good deal of hands-on work (you can take a class in Econometrics and you can do your own film-making, and a lot of people do), these are usually electives within the major, not required.</p>
<p>As for COL and CSS, from what I can tell, most people who want to do either of them pretty much know by the end of their freshman year, and are fairly passionate about the major. I don’t know anyone who wishes they had been a COL or CSS major and feels they missed their chance.</p>