<p>Are there any current students at emory who can provide some advice as to which teachers to avoid freshman year and which teachers to take? Thank you</p>
<p>I don’t know your interests in terms of coursework. You’ll have to tell me that before I advise you.</p>
<p>I have taken 10 classes at Emory and I have only hated 1 professor, lol. Most professors are very helpful during office hours and are good lecturers (its up to you to figure out how to study for their classes). </p>
<p>But yah, I need to know what you plan on taking to tell you what profs. to avoid.</p>
<p>I am planning on being pre-business. I am also going to focus on poly-sci and economics…</p>
<p>For polysci, it depends on rather you intend to start with intro/100 level courses or 2-300 level courses. You can jump right into special topics courses, in which case I recommend Stein for Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the “Law” courses are all good. All of those profs. are good (Supreme Court, and International Law, courses like that), but they are really tough. I haven’t heard from intro. courses, other than international politics being somewhat tough, same with comparitive. I don’t know profs. in those though. I don’t know about econ. at all.</p>
<p>for econ 101 (if you dont already have micro ap credit), try and avoid schaeffer. shes actually fairly easy, but its straight lecture and very dull. also, the grade is constituted of 25% midterm 1, 25% midterm 2, and 50% final, which means no credit for participation (i found this as a negative)</p>
<p>for business prereqs, i loved sevier for financial accounting. shes a great teacher and is very clear in explaining concepts. definitely one of my favorite teachers freshmen year</p>
<p>Try to avoid history freshman seminars, unless you’re passionate about history. They usually demand a lot of cheap work.</p>
<p>What is cheap work?</p>
<p>If you are going pre-business AND thinking of poli sci, just take business econ since that fulfills requirements for micro and macro econ as one class.
And for your info, you can’t… do… polisci, econ AND pre-business. The Goizueta Business School does not recognize any minors (well in the transcripts anyways. But I guess you can write on your resume and whatnot) and you can’t do triple major in Emory (or any private school for that matter). Most do either Poli Sci and Business or Business and Econ.
If you are really intent on fulfilling requirements for 3 majors/ 2 majors and a minor as you seem to apply, you would probably have to overload and I would recommend taking introductory classes for poli sci (like 100 with Abramowitz, 110 and/or 120) to see how econ goes, and take micro econ for econ (not sure, but many people suggest that’s the easiest econ), and financial accounting (arguably the most important pre-req class for admission to the business school. Mary Seviers, who’s the advisor for all CPA-track Accounting people, KNOW what she’s teaching. I heard she’s intense, but you learn tons and if you can cope with what she teaches, then you’re pretty much set for the business school. Wang Xue also teaches (but not this coming Fall I heard) and it’s comparably easy A, but doesn’t really give you a glimpse of what the business school would be like)</p>
<p>In conclusion, take like one class for each of your interest that would also fulfill GER, since even if you decide that the certain major is not for you, the class/es you have taken wouldn’t be wasted ;)</p>
<p>Ditto to avoiding history freshman seminars. Also avoid sociology or women’s history seminars. Way too much reading compared for the A.</p>