<p>Noticed that nearly all upper div econ courses require 100a. I haven't taken it yet, I was planning on taking econ 100b and another upper div econ course next semester but it seems like I won't be able to do this because of that prerequisite.</p>
<p>well econ 100a hasn’t been very necessary in any of the 3 upper divs I’ve taken so far. Econ 134 and Econ 115 are both mostly macroeconomic courses though, and Econ C110 (game theory) didn’t really have any prereqs at all…</p>
<p>yeah, i want to take econ c110 but the class is full. I’ll check out econ 134 and econ 115</p>
<p>oh wait, political science c135 is cross listed with econ c110. All its seats are reserved for polisci majors, I think I’ll just enroll in that and get on the small waitlist. Hopefully I get a seat.</p>
<p>You can take Economics 101A instead of Economics 100A. :)</p>
<p>never took math 53, i honestly wish I did so I could have, but I didn’t know about the 101 series.</p>
<p>btw, what classes should I take alongside my 2 econ courses next semester? I really have no other requirements.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a junior</p>
<p>Math 53 :)</p>
<p>Econ 136 with Prof Shomali. Easiest class ever. Open book multiple choice midterms/final.</p>
<p>I feel like I should take Econ 136, but it’s at 8am in evans which sounds pretty miserable to me… Is lecture skippable? I’m also taking 140 next semester so would it be too similar/boring?</p>
<p>I don’t mind 8am classes, might take econ 136, very tempting, very very tempting</p>
<p>I attended lecture for the first couple of weeks then skipped it completely. Subsequently I only attended the ones before the midterms to find out which chapters were going to be on the midterms. Shomali usually posts the homework assignments and mt topics on bspace though, so you can get away with not attending lectures at all. </p>
<p>You’ll need a financial calculator in this class but you can use your graphing calc since it has a built-in financial calc package. Shomali won’t teach you how to use it, and my GSI didn’t know how to use a financial calc as well. But it’s pretty easy to figure out, just google it. A number of people were complaining about it since we only found out we needed a financial calc a week before the mt. </p>
<p>Homework assignments are all from the textbook. Get the solutions manual, it helps a lot especially for some of the later chapters where stuff can get kind of tricky. Just don’t copy directly. Apparently a bunch of people did that and got 0s on the first problem set according to my GSI. Most people don’t even bother attending discussions. There were usually only 3-4 people who came to my section every week.</p>
<p>MTs/Final is open book multiple choice. 25 questions. Shomali recycled a couple of questions from previous years so that was nice. Mostly computational and since it’s open book, all the formulas are right in front of you. Just need to look it up. No notes allowed though. Just the textbook. I didn’t even buy the textbook. Just loaned it from the library. Lots of people did that too since all the copies were always on hold. Older editions are fine as well, except for 1 chapter which was missing some stuff from the latest edition if I remember correctly. I reserved the latest edition at the library just in time for the final, but the guy who had it on loan refused to return it even though it was like a week overdue. In the end I took the final with a textbook 2editions behind the one we were using for the class.</p>
<p>136 is Financial Econ so it’s not like Econometrics at all. You learn about bonds, pricing models and stuff in 136. Some people claim you don’t really learn anything if you take a class with Shomali (like Econ 101b this sem), and I think that’s true to a certain extent. But it’s the easiest A I’ve ever gotten. 4 units and you just need to spend an hour every week or so on homework, and a day or 2 before the mts to catch up on material.</p>
<p>well, you’ve convinced me, going to drop poli sci c110 and take econ 136</p>
<p>Shomali doesn’t curve his classes though, so you’ve got to make sure you don’t make any calculation errors and stuff on the mts/final. 1.5hours for each of the 2 midterms and 3 hours for the final. All of them consist of 25 multiple choice questions. Plenty of time to check your answers. </p>
<p>Unless you’ve a time conflict, there’s no reason not to take both Econ c110 and 136. The workload for 136 is very light.</p>