<p>Hey, this is sort of a generic question wherever you go about taking business courses or being a business major.</p>
<p>I guess, in high school, you take english, science, math, langauges, history, at least twice during your four years and you build a foundation and motivation to say "hey, I would like to do premed in college" or "I am going to be a history major" But the thing is, since high schools don't teach business courses- finance, management, accounting- how does one decide to become a business major?</p>
<p>My second question is...although I am planning on becoming a premed student with a classics major, I realize I may have extra slots in my schedule for other interesting subjects and business is something I am interested can be useful in future goals whether starting a private practice in the future or investing, I am really interested in learning about business. Thus, in your opinion, do you think it is advisable to take business classes in accounting, finance, or management. Since I have no clue about business at Notre Dame, where I will be attending, and other than that it is no 3 on Business Week Online, are they difficult, time-consuming courses with a lot of reading/memzorization?</p>
<p>Not much memorization--lots of team projects and reading that can be time consuming.</p>
<p>FightingIrish: If you are going to major in classics (What is that? Classics of literature?) plus take the required premed classes, you won't have all that many extra slots for business classes. For premed you have to take eight core classes, which often means two years of chemistry, a year of physics, and a year of biology. Those classes all have separate labs too, so they will fill up your schedule.</p>
<p>If you are interested in business concepts, why don't you major in business and take the premed classes? That seems like a good combination to me.</p>
<p>If you do take some business classes just as electives, you'll probably just take introductory level classes, perhaps introduction to general business, introduction to law, introduction to accounting principles. Accounting classes have a lot of homework--long, involved problem sets that take a lot of time to complete.</p>
<p>Well, I have done AP Latin and really build a solid foundation in Latin during high school and its something I just don't want to throw away. I plan on repeating it and thus the first two years for my major will be a review. I wanted to take business as an additional "cool" and interesting skill/subject to learn type of thing</p>