<p>I had a question for the people who are in or have done a masters/PhD in economics. I'm currently an undergrad and next semester I'm going to be taking Intermediate micro and macro. However, I was thinking of just auditing the intro micro/macro courses that the grad students take in place of the undergrad intermediate micro/macro. My main goal is just to learn more. </p>
<p>So my questions are:</p>
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<li>How much of an overlap is there between the first micro/macro classes you took in grad school and the ones in your undergrad career?</li>
<li>Would you recommend my plan? Why or why not?</li>
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<p>Private Message me if you want a link to a message board which caters to Masters/PhD Economics students. You wont find a decent, helpful answer on here about this.</p>
<p>I am also not trying to spam the other forum here so shoot me a message.</p>
<p>There is almost no overlap between undergrad and grad econ classes (I took a master’s Micro class and PhD Econometrics class in college). The graduate level classes are far, far more mathematical and much more difficult. As far as recommending graduate classes, it depends. If you want to learn information you can use in a business career, they will be of no help. If you are very interested in understanding complex economic theory, then sure why not? Especially since auditing those classes won’t hurt your GPA.</p>
<p>The topics covered are I guess there is not a lot of difference much more in depth… Graduate econ classes “requires” real analysis, intermediate mostly requires calc 1</p>
<p>Real analysis as far as I know is a beast, and a class that “requires” it, not very fun either unless you really like it.</p>
<p>P.S. requires as in you can go in with any math, but it won’t help you without analysis</p>
<p>You need to have taken real analysis (the creme de la crop of undergrad math courses), advanced linear algebra, and calc based probability and statistics at a minimum. If you have done all that, then go for it. If not, I would still clear until you have the math background necessary.</p>