<p>First of all, July 12 - 18, I will be on holiday. Does that leave me enough time to register for courses? </p>
<p>Secondly, I'm pretty sure I want to major in economics (to a high level, I want to be able to take advanced calc, stats and econometric classes, as well as developmental and behavioural economics), but I'd also like to try my hand at Physics (Quantum Mechanics), History (Economic history?), Maths (Will be part of my economics prerequisites anyway), something arty (Drama?) and a few courses from the engineering school, at some point throughout my four years. I'd also like to take that "Intro to Psych" class that gets like a thousands students. I'd also like to explore my PE options. I'm a fluent, native, arabic speaker, but would still like to try my hand at the more advanced arabic courses (from the off if possible) and maybe at some point take introductory courses in another language.</p>
<p>All of this keeping in mind that I'm an A Level student and so will have done an extra year of study in comparison to most other people (A Levels and IB go up to Grade 13). It's been recommended to me that I take intro to Micro or Macro, despite the fact that I could opt out of it. I'm just a bit tired of high school economics so would rather try my hand at something more advanced :/ However, I've heard that intro to Micro has a bit of maths in it, when I never had to apply maths to economics at High School. However, I tend to enjoy macro economics more, but I've heard there's next to no maths involved :/ </p>
<p>I'm just a bit overwhelmed with all the different choices and different requirements :/ (I'm in arts and science) </p>
<p>You have a long time to plan everything and you have plenty of time to take everything you want to. </p>
<p>As for Economics, you can place out of intro micro/macro (I did). If you really like math, the 301/302 sequence is actually the most mathematical and is usually for engineers looking to learn some Economics. I think 301/302 is intended to combine 101/102 and 313/314. I took the 313/314 sequence myself so I can’t comment more on 301/302.</p>
<p>The normal courses are 313/314 sequence which basically covers the stuff from intro, with a bit of added rigor. You actually probably cover fewer topics in 313/314, although intro basically gives an overview of all major areas in economics (except behavioral). Most Economics courses don’t ask for more than Calc I, so you should be ready for the math. I think Intermediate Micro does some partial derivatives (Calc III), but you do such easy partial derivatives you’ll learn all you need to in 20 mins from the TA.</p>
<p>Thanks!! Would you recommend that I, as a freshman, take a 300 level course? Also, I don’t officially know if I can place out of Intro econ classes until August 16th when my A Level results come out. How do you think that should factor into my decision? I’m assuming you can’t take a 300 level course without first taking Intro ? </p>
<p>Is there a website with all the different types of courses, available anywhere?</p>
<p>If you are willing to rigorously apply mathematics to economics without question then you can definitely take them. What is your math background? (Taken any analysis/non linear differential equation/ applied linear algebra courses? If you have, those will definitely help).</p>
<p>Dan’s teaching 3010 next sem. He’s a real chill guy (my research advisor), so it should be a good class. I took 3020 this semester and was very happy with the class as a whole. </p>
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<p>The TA told us 3020 was a combination of Intro Macro, Intermediate Macro Theory, and grad level Mathematical Economics.</p>
<p>EDIT: I’ll add I never took any kind of economics courses before 3020, so you don’t need any background, but you’ll need to be able to learn extremely quickly if you don’t have some kind of a background in the subject.</p>
<p>You can put a course on the wishlist… and talk to the professor… keep trying to enroll, and it might work out if someone else drops out of the course officially and you get the spot first. So yes, you can be quite screwed over… especially in some classes where discussion spots are really limited but lecture spots are not.</p>
<p>You should always have a backup plan, and maybe a backup to the backup plan… underclassmen often resort to them.</p>
<p>Well, if you place out of intro Econ, your options are basically the 300-level. For Econ, the 100-level courses are intro (only 101/102). 300-level courses are theoretical/foundational Economics knowledge (bulk of your degree). 400-level are actually easier (on average) and are more focused courses (like Economic History or Economy of China). 200-level Econ classes don’t count for anything, and I think there are only 1 or 2 of them.</p>
<p>OP, without getting into specific choices the overall approach I used was I always a had a complete 4 year plan of the courses I would take. Some of the courses far out might only say something like humanities elective. Seeing all the courses I was going to take had a bunch of advantages … ensured I met all the requirements, help spread out the tough courses across semesters, helped ensure I could take the courses the were offered infrequently, and before I picked a major made sure I kept all my options open. I also kept a list of courses being considered to fill the schedule slots. Of course the future semester schedules were “wrong” … however having a view of my overall time at Cornell was very helpful for me.</p>