<p>I want to do econ in liberal arts, but I'm worried about the math. I'm not the best math student so idk if I would be good at this. Can I still be good in a BA in liberal arts econ without being very good at math?</p>
<p>Do you mean that you want to take an economics class, or you want to be an economics major?</p>
<p>The first one doesn’t really require a whole lot of math. The second one would be ill-advised for a student who’s not comfortable with math.</p>
<p>I’d be a econ major. It would be liberal arts and a BA, so it’s not as much math. Would it be too much for someone who doesn’t love math?</p>
<p>I think so. But you could ask an academic advisor once you enroll in college.</p>
<p>Intro to econ- no need for math</p>
<p>Econ as major- Better be above average in math</p>
<p>If you want to be an Economics major, you should know Math way beyond Calculus 1.</p>
<p>two questions
- Is it a good supplement for a strategic communication? I would get it at a great journalism school, like syracuse or mizzou.
- If I did a liberal arts econ major at a state school or somewhere like syracuse in the liberal arts department, wouldn’t it be more of theory rather than applied mathematics?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Uniman, that’s the question we’ve been answering: you’d need strong math skills. You don’t seem to like the answer you’re getting, but it’s the only one I got.</p>
<p>If you want to work in an Economics related field, you don’t necessarily have to major in Econ, you can major in Finance/Business as well.</p>
<p>isn’t finance more math than econ?</p>
<p>Would you need more math than Calculus II? If so could anyone please give me an application for it?</p>
<p>I myself an not inherently good at math and had the same worries–as half of the schools i am applying to it will be as a econ major (bus admin. at the rest)-- but I have decided that for that same reason I should dive into some and learn to love it. If you can identify your weaknesses why not do something about them?</p>
<p>BTW I just looked at a few other posts here on CC and most seem to agree that stats and calculus II is enough for undergrad econ. What say the people reading this thread?</p>
<p>Uniman, you actually have it reversed. There’s typically more math in “theory” classes than there are in “applied” classes (when dealing with mathematical based classes).</p>
<p>Theory tends to be much more abstract. The math, imo, was more difficult because you couldn’t always “see” where it was coming from. You have to be able to read the math, know the derivations, proofs, etc. in a theory class.</p>
<p>In an applied class they are going to take the mathematical skills and theory you learned in the theory class and give real world situations they are used in. Give me an applied class over a theory class any day of the week.</p>
<p>If you are planning on enrolling in economics as a major, you should at least be able to get a decent grade in calculus. There isn’t much more we can say besides econ requires quite a bit of math. Trust me. I’m an economics major.</p>
<p>-Matt</p>
<p>I am in an intermediate course right now and we only need to know derivatives. However, we pretty much need to know everything about derivatives and need to be extremely familiar with the definition and graphing in general. </p>
<p>I can’t speak for higher econ courses but I can imagine it would be harder. Somebody who didn’t get at least a C in calculus probably could not major in Econ at all.</p>