Economics and International Studies

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<p>I'm a big fan of The Economist and have started to develop an interest in international relations. Is dual degrees in econ and international studies be a good way to go?</p>

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<p>Why not just major/minor?</p>

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<p>Yeah...I'm majoring and minoring in both next year. They really shape into each other well.</p>

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<p>ive heard from college buddies that intro to econ is very hard and very boring... ive been told it falls under the avoid if you can/take only if u must category (kinda like organic chem)</p>

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<p>I sat through an intro econ course in April at CMU and I could understand most of what was being said - didn't seem too hard.</p>

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<p>I just finished HL IB Econ in high school and I liked it. However, thats just my opinion, many may find it boring. Heh, I won't find out if its boring in college though (assuming I get more than a 6)</p>

<p>By the way.. I found that something that makes the concepts more interesting is applying them to real world situations. (This was obligatory through commentaries on news articles)</p>

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<p>I can't imagine intro to economics being that hard, although I could understand it being a little bit boring. </p>

<p>I just realized that I'm gonna have to take intro to Econ although I've already had 3 years of economics, just because I didn't take the HL test.</p>

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<p>A program that you might find interesting is the HUntsman Program in Business and International Studies, at UPenn...
CHeck it out at <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/huntsman%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.upenn.edu/huntsman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Look into the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. They have a highly focused curriculum and an International Economics major. I recommend it highly!</p>

<p><a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.georgetown.edu/sfs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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A program that you might find interesting is the HUntsman Program in Business and International Studies, at UPenn...
CHeck it out at <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/huntsman%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5D"&gt;www.upenn.edu/huntsman

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<p>Wow... That seems like an awesome program. My target language would be Arabic but the prob is that I can only read and write the Arabic script. Am really bad at conversation and vocab. Am I going to run into probs here?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>what do you want to do in graduate school? or in your career?</p>