<p>Has anyone taken Economics 54: Principles of Microeconomics? Would you recommend this class? Also Econ 104: Financial Econ is recommended only for students with a high school course in economics - do you think a student would be properly prepared for this course if they took honors economics but not any AP eco courses? (school only offered an honors course)</p>
<p>itsjj, when i said it wasn’t in the course catalog, i mean the pdf version that is specifically for the fall semester. It’s not listed there. I posted it earlier in this thread.</p>
<p>It obviously exists as a course, and thus would be posted where you indicated. I just think its odd that it wouldn’t be in the catalog for everyone to choose from, nor is it on the course listings page for fall (the one where all the other classes- sophomores, juniors, seniors- signs up for classes).</p>
<p>Oops, I missed that when I skimmed the thread. That’s really useful.</p>
<p>need advice: Econ 54 is the fundamental intro to microecon class, you should probably read up on what microecon is and determine if it’s something you’re interested in. How good the class is depends on where you take it and which professor. Econ 104 I didn’t take till after intro to macro and intro to micro but I don’t really think you need any econ background, Evans is a very good professor and you just have to study before each of the three tests (the sole determiners of your grade, there is no graded homework). If you’re a frosh though I don’t think they’ll let you take these your first semester, though I’m not familiar with this new elective system.</p>
<p>I am trying to decipher the new common core. It looks to me like there are now only 10 required Humanities classes, not 11. Four for the Concentration, two each for the other two areas, and two “electives.” Not actually sure about the two electives even.</p>
<p>Anyone know?</p>
<p>The Humanities requirement is separate from the Common Core. I should have stated that a little differently. I am trying to figure out the Core, as well, however.</p>
<p>If you can get onto the admitted students site, there is a powerpoint explaining the new core and humanities requirements. I don’t have access to it atm, but if you can’t find it/ someone doesn’t provide the information, I’ll get it to you later.</p>
<p>Thank you, Blackroses, I found it. The powerpoint says there are 10 required humanities courses.</p>
<p>If you’re going to be an engineering major, I’d recommend pref-ing the engineering electives you’re interested in first, then whatever intro level hum class seems interesting next. </p>
<p>This will probably be your only chance to take Autonomous Vehicles or Energy Engineering, so don’t miss out on those if they interest you. </p>
<p>Using your elective for a hum would be smart because engineering majors get so few free electives. If you take a random bio or “Art of Calculus” elective right off the bat, then you’re basically giving up an engineering upper-div elective or a technical elective that’ll be far more useful/interesting than the random frosh ones. </p>
<p>As far as choosing hums goes, don’t worry about understanding the hum requirements. Just choose whatever interests you. Avoid upper-div (100+) hums unless you have a strong interest and foundation in the subject.</p>
<p>@Suin: I’m pretty sure the Econ 54 class would be on the Mudd campus. The Pomona Micro class is Econ 52 and the CMC version is Econ 50.</p>
<p>Numbers for classes are consistent across the 5Cs. I looked at the catalog and found Principles of Microeconomics is Econ 52, and is being offered at Pomona, Scripps, and Pitzer next semester. Econ 50 is Principles of Economic Analysis, and seems unique to CMC. At HMC I think only Prag teaches Micro, probably every other spring. I think the 54 was a typo.</p>
<p>How did you get to the catalog? I only found one on the HMC site which only lists HM courses. It would be great to find a site with courses at all the colleges located in one central place. Also, you indicate you thought econ 54 was a typo and the Prag teaches micro in the spring. However I think I saw it offered this fall in the email sent to incoming freshmen and I thought Evans was teaching it.</p>
<p>Actually, I just found the link to the course schedules for the fall for all colleges</p>
<p>I use portal.hmc.edu, it has a handy search feature. It’s possible it’s a new class for frosh that they don’t list in the catalog. Evans definitely teaches Intro to Macro in the spring, he hasn’t taught micro before though (at least not in the past 4 years).</p>
<p>I took General Chemistry Intensive last year (it wasn’t quite an official course yet), but I believe that it was actually intended for people who wanted to get more practice doing chemistry/might not have had as strong a background in it as others.</p>