<p>I was just admitted to Berkeley, L&S. I wanna major in political science and economics.</p>
<p>Is it really hard to do a double major like pol sci and Econ in berkeley? Any personal experiences?
Actually, I am very interested in international relations, and for a very long time, I thought I would take that as my major, but I heard IR in berkeley is not that good, is it true?
Btw, for the first semester courses, did anyone take a class that they really enjoyed and would recommend?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>In general, with two majors, you just have to choose your courses carefully so that each one fulfills a requirement. You do not have as much schedule space in which you can take free electives.</p>
<p>Political science requires 12 courses (3 lower division political science, 8 upper division political science, 1 history), while economics requires 12 courses (1 lower division economics, 2 math, 1 statistics, 8 upper division economics). Of these, there may be 1 possible overlap course (a few economic history courses can count for both majors).</p>
<p>In addition, there are L&S requirements, including reading and composition (2 courses) and the 7-course breadth requirement (probably at least 3 courses that cannot be fulfilled by the two majors: art and literature, biological science, physical science). At least one course somewhere must be an American cultures course (some political science courses are American cultures courses).</p>
<p>That totals up to at least 29 courses. Since most students will take about 32 courses, that leaves about 3 courses of free electives. A few requirements can be fulfilled with AP or IB credit (e.g. L&S reading and composition, Math 1A/16A and 1B/16B for the economics major, Economics 1 for the economics major), which can give you additional schedule space.</p>
<p><a href=“Major Requirements | Department of Economics”>Major Requirements | Department of Economics;
<a href=“Requirements for the Major | UC Berkeley Political Science”>http://polisci.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-program/requirements-major</a>
<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/summary.html”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirement/summary.html</a></p>