Okay, so I keep going back and forth on what I want to major in at Emory. I definitely know that I want to do international relations, but I’m not sure if I want to pair that major with history or econ. I enjoy history more, but I feel like economics would be much more practical for my intended career path…which I should probably say is international development related. Originally I wanted to go to law school, but I’m not sure if I want to anymore. If I didn’t, I’d probably want to pursue econ for the more technical skills, but a masters for that can have some pretty specific prereqs, where if I decided I still wanted to go to law school, it wouldn’t matter if I majored in economics over history. The only thing is, I’ve heard that economics at Emory kind of sucks. Is this true? and would it be worth it still or should I just stick to history?
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It’s an undergraduate major…so a regular economics degree unless it is from somewhere known (as in have programs known for a higher level of training than most others) for that like Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, and Duke I guess, it isn’t going to be that much more “practical” or marketable than most other majors unless supplemented with a math major/minor. I would advise you stick to what you like and maybe do history with a QSS concentration. That would likely be more marketable than an econ. major from Emory even if it is good (there are some good elements there, but it still needs a lot of work and it’ll be a while since they just now started to admit PhD candidates again). You can take econ. or even business classes for the knowledge on the side.
Also, please note that you do not need to have your major decided now. Your interests can take you in other directions.
@bernie12 well I guess for international development, they prefer more technical skills, so a masters in econ would be better than a masters in a soft skill if I didn’t go to law school. But i guess QSS would prepare me for an economic masters as well if I took some additional econ classes. I’ll look into that…but i guess my other question is, I definitely plan to explore different major options my first year, but at the same time, if I’m planning to double major would that put me behind, or is this still feasible for students doing a double major? I was also just asking for economics bc I’ll probably take my AP Calc exam now if I’m considering econ. Thank you for all your advice, it’s always so helpful!
No, most people take an introductory course in an area(s) they think they are interested and then pick based on who knows what for the rest of the courses. Most non-science majors don’t have to worry about “falling” behind. Usually, people just kind of throw in an econ. major anyway. Your calc. exam is more relevant to whether or not you can testdrive a QSS course your first year or not since where you start in econ. has no calc. (unless you go to intermediate because you have AP/IB in that too). Usually people pick a couple of courses in the area(s) they’ll major in and some in just whatever other area freshman year. Some people just take whatever. Most majors are not so credit intensive or full of rigorous classes that doubling up in a semester will put your GPA at risk or something. I mean, considering that the average student (not in science courses which may count for 4-5 hours each) should be taking 4-5 classes on average (maybe leaning more toward 5 sophomore year and up), it isn’t that difficult to fit in reqs. for two majors, especially if you took a class or two in one your freshman year.
@bernie12 I’ve been trying to find this thread everywhere and I can’t find it, but I remember you suggesting to me a while back some kind of special smaller classes you could take as a freshman and sophomore called the “(something) core” I think… and it consisted of history, English, philosophy, etc. Do you remember what it was called?