<p>I tried searching for this on the college site, but I couldn't find it, so does anyone know how many classes in the econ major can be double counted (say, for a minor)? The other majors I found tend to say up to half, but I haven't found anything specific for econ.</p>
<p>I’m an econ/math double major. I don’t know if there’s an explicit limit on how many courses can be double counted, but most of the classes you need for the econ major don’t count for anything in any other department anyways, so it’s unlikely you’ll be able to count more than a few.</p>
<p>For me, the calc requirement, the stat requirement and a game theory class were all that were potentially useful outside the department.</p>
<p>I’m planing to be an econ major with lots of minors, and actually I found that there were 7 classes that I could double count with my minors. However, 7 is more than 50% of the 12 cu needed to graduate with an econ major, which is why I’m wondering.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t affect your major. Just look up the info for each of your minors and see if any of them have rules against double counting classes from your major.</p>
<p>I’d advise against the one major, lots of minors route though. Actually finishing minors turns out to be almost useless. If they’re topics you’re interested in, sure go ahead and take classes in the area, but actually going through the paperwork and fulfilling requirements to make it a formal minor is generally not worth it. If you want to put that kind of effort into coursework, turn one of your minors into a second major.</p>
<p>And it sounds like you’re a prospective student, so I’ll tell you there’s really no reason to plan this all in advance. You’ll miss out on a lot if you try to plan too rigid a schedule before you get here. Some of my favorite courses have been ones I’ve jumped into just because I heard about a cool professor or class, even though I didn’t really have much of a prior interest.</p>
<p>The minors I had in mind were math, psych, and international relations. They’re all subjects that I’m curious about, and when I looked up classes and realized I could get them declared formally as a minor with just 3-4 classes, I decided, why not? But you do have a good point, they don’t seem to do much except satisfy curiosity.</p>
<p>The other reason was that it seemed that majors were somewhat researched based. I was under the impression (right or wrong) that many major required some kind of research class or experience, and I figured that it would be better to concentrate in one major so I could concentrate on researching one thing.</p>
<p>But I really have no experience in this at all, so I’m sure things will change once I actually get onto campus. Thanks for you help =)</p>