<p>Micro AND macroeconomics are required for ALL engineers, but I wasn't aware of this until recently. Also, each engineer has to take an elective, and an upper level elective from the same department.</p>
<p>I am taking psychology right now which means that I have to take an upper level psych after this semester. Could you give me some thoughts on taking psych for 2 semesters? I'm not even sure if I will enjoy psych just yet.</p>
<p>For economics, you would normally take Economic Principles and Problems, which is a 200-level class only offered in the spring. This class is only open to soe, so I’m sure it’s pretty difficult. Most people fulfill the requirement by taking Intro to Micro and then Intro to Macro.</p>
<p>You don’t necessarily need to take an upper level psych course. You need to take 2 lower level electives, and two higher level, where one set of lower and upper level electives are from the same department. Say you take another lower level elective such as intro to sociology. Then, you could either take an upper level psych course, or an upper level sociology course to fulfill the requirement. You can then take an upper level elective that may have nothing to do with psych or sociology, given that it has no prerequisite electives. It’s a pretty confusing concept.</p>
<p>If I have AP Macro credit (Score: 4 or 5), can I get out of it? Or do I still have to take the 2 electives.</p>
<p>I do realize that I don’t have to take another semester of psych if I choose to take another upper level elective. The problem is, psychology is the only elective I have for now, so I didn’t bother to include the possibility of my taking another upper level elective in the question.</p>
<p>Let’s assume that I WILL have to take the upper level psych. Any ideas on this?</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what you mean. Are you asking what your options are for upper-level electives? If you do take an upper-level psych course, you can still take another set of two electives in the same department. It’s just that you must have one pair of electives from the same department. Or you can take a lower-level elective, and then an upper-level one from a completely different department.</p>
<p>I’d recommend taking another lower-level elective before choosing upper-level electives. I haven’t taken an upper-level elective yet, but 300-level courses can get pretty strenuous in terms of work load. I’d recommend planning out what you want to take in the future, because some electives such as Hindu Philosophy (an upper-level course) are only offered in the spring. Other lower-level electives, such as Death and Afterlife are only open to freshmen and sophomores. Sometimes it’s also a matter of which course is open and/or fits in your schedule.</p>
<p>Dammit!!!
Engineers have to take Economic classes?!!?</p>
<p>I hate studying money.</p>
<p>Please tell me this is just for Rutgers university.</p>
<p>Upper-level psych courses aren’t necessarily demanding. I personally found Social Psych to be extremely interesting and straightforward. Others such as Memory, Cognition, etc. may be more difficult.</p>
<p>And, yes, Roy - you’re in the Rutgers forum. Other colleges have their own requirements for engineers, but you should probably understand that a big part of an engineer’s job is figuring out if a procedure is even possible due to expenses. Scientists find new discoveries without regard for how much it will cost to manufacture, engineers try to figure out how to get the same result using less money. (in general - there are a lot of engineering jobs out there.)</p>