<p>Question related to this:</p>
<p>I'm looking into SEAS with majoring in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research. My question is - if I'm at SEAS, for my electives - am I able to take some classes at Columbia College in whatever I want, or am I restricted to SEAS classes? I know what I want to do, but I'm also pretty social sciences oriented so being able to take a few (not a lot - understandably) classes in that realm would definitely be nice.</p>
<p>I believe not only can you but you have to take at least 2-3 classes that aren't engineering or science</p>
<p>Denzera, great post!</p>
<p>lvilleslacker: you definitely need macro/micro for FE. </p>
<p>Denz: the 4th major is EMS</p>
<p>Jock: Read Denzera's post. You can take Columbia College classes. In fact, you're supposed to. They won't lock you up in an engineering inferno with no windows, promise :)</p>
<p>my fault for being unclear, i meant operations research and industrial engineering. not the entire department (though I'm pretty sure EMS has nothing to do with econ as well).</p>
<p>jock: in seas you will be forced to take a few electives in your dept., apart from those 2-3 classes to get a little more depth/breadth in your major you can take electives and non-technical classes abound.</p>
<p>"my fault for being unclear, i meant operations research and industrial engineering. not the entire department (though I'm pretty sure EMS has nothing to do with econ as well)."</p>
<p>all the majors in ieor are similar, OR is mathy with a lean towards discreet math. FE is just as mathy with a focus on modeling, cs. IE is more focused on production, supply chain, logistics. EMS is a multidisciplinary combination of econ, management, modeling, bit of cs, bit of supply chain. they're all high applicable to real world econ problems, none of them deal with the theory of economics, but for example one of the classes required by some if not all of the concentrations is industrial econ, which goes through game theory and pricing models. This is a real world economics problem, and understanding basic economic theory and having economic intuition is essential.</p>