<p>Is it challenging or is it a mid range work load?</p>
<p>Challenging, particularly if you go the intensive math track econ.</p>
<p>I have a question about the economic major at UCB and UCLA and all other UC's : do economic student need to take a lot of maths courses or are economic courses very quantitative ?</p>
<p>I heard (and it makes sense) that the first year of the Phd in economics students just do math, math and math. But anyway, I don't care too much about the Phd but more about the bachelor.</p>
<p>Thx</p>
<p>ucla, ucb, and ucsd are pretty math intense. The others are less so. I know you can take biz-econ at ucsb and just take business calc, but at the others (ucb, ucla, ucsd), you need calc 1-3, and more if you go into majors such as management science, or obviously math-econ.
Someone correct me if Im wrong...but Im pretty sure thats the deal</p>
<p>Thw for the answer evo9.
I'm fench and I'm sorry if I ask obvious questions but what do you do in Calculus 1,2, 3 ? </p>
<p>It's hard for me to tell you what we do in high school in france because I don't speak wery well english and don't have the math vocabulary.</p>
<p>That's what we do in high school and it's considered pretty easy :</p>
<p>-complex numbers</p>
<p>-geometry
<a href="http://www.apmepaquitaine.com/Fichier%20annales/dossier%20S/BacSGeometrie.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.apmepaquitaine.com/Fichier%20annales/dossier%20S/BacSGeometrie.pdf</a></p>
<p>-arithmetic</p>
<p>-for an example of calculus look at page 23</p>
<p>I'm sorry, it's in french but you can just look to see what it look likes.</p>
<p>Thx</p>
<p>PS: to the OP, I should maybe remove this message because it's not in relation with your initial question ?</p>
<p>Calculus 1&2 cover basic computations in single-variate calculus, and calculus 3 covers multivariate-calculus, which is realistically only in R^2 or R^3. Community college students ought to have finished all of these, as well as differential equations and a first course in linear algebra.</p>
<p>A rigorous econ major does a thorough sequence in analysis, which goes over the workings of calculus in R^n, or any space one can do calculus on, realistically. The only other math really required is some probability theory.</p>
<p>If you take a math/econ major, the econ section will be easy, and if you take a purely econ major, the hardest part is getting in.</p>
<p>Thanks Logos. I think that I've already studied calc 1 ,and 3 at high school because I looked at the website of the UC Berkeley's departement of math and it seems like I will be fine with math. That's cool because I don't like that much math.</p>
<p>Econ is pretty challenging at Cal, but in all sense its do-able. And Zwip778 if you want to go to graduate school it is highly recommended that you finish the calculus series and some other math courses. As a general rule, undergraduate studies is not as math intensive as graduate studies. However, if you are in an economics or business program then you should take the math courses.</p>