<p>The options are psychology, economics (macro & micro), and sociology. Which is the most interesting from all those? I'm decent in math, and frankly psychology and sociology sound boring. Because of that, I'm leaning towards economics. What do you all think?
Btw, I'm a Biology major.</p>
<p>I've taken all of those (took micro for econ), and to me at least, sociology was the most interesting. I learned alot of things I don't think I would've known otherwise. We watched An Inconvenient Truth, Supersize Me, and documentaries about how Wal-mart treats its workers here and overseas (read: very badly) and the Tuskegee syphillis experiment (which hit home for us because Tuskegee is only 20 minutes away from here). You also talk about world religions and cultures, and different races/ethnicities. I'd say about 75% of it was really interesting. For me, I hated econ; it was incredibly boring to me, although that might've just been my teacher. Psychology is okay, but the intro class is kinda boring for like the first 1/2 of it.
So personally, I'd recommend sociology.</p>
<p>I really enjoy all of these subjects, but totally support you taking Econ. It's something I really think everyone should get exposure to. Think of it as knowledge to apply to your life, not just a gen ed class.</p>
<p>Intro micro is cake relative to other survey courses.</p>
<p>Ask people who have taken those classes at your school and see which one has the best professor/professors. All of those subjects could be boring or interesting depending on how they're taught.</p>
<p>Psychology might be the most useful to your major if you want to learn about neuro science, cognitive science, and other stuff. Macro economics will give you a good base on how the US economy works (sort of). Most of my friends took micro economics and felt that it didn't really have many real world applications, but most people feel like macro actually taught them worthwhile stuff.</p>
<p>I think I'll go with macro. At my school, you're advised to take Macro before micro.</p>
<p>Intro soc. was boring to me. But my prof was pretty boring.</p>
<p>I guess it just depends on the professor, whether he/she makes it interesting or not.</p>
<p>Psych or Macro would both be easy/painless for you, so take whichever sounds more applealing.</p>
<p>Take economics, which incidentally enough will tell you more about people than sociology would. </p>
<p>I'm all for the separation of politics and science; sociology courses often violate that tenet.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if your school offers these courses, but I was very interested in combining math and social science disciplines a while back and I took a few political modeling courses and a demographics, or sociology of population, course. Political modeling simplifies math theories like Brower's fixed point theorem and Markov processes and applies them to social situations. You also cover a lot of the Prisoner's Dilemma, chaos theorems, and game theory, which are more typical of the social sciences, especially in economics obviously.
Demographics was a little bit of Calculus and a lot of analyzing graphs and thinking based on empirical evidence. A lot of people, including those just taking it for requirement, found it very useful and interesting for everyday life, or thinking about current events. It gives you a new perspective on thinking about things like health care, a national ID card, and developing democracies.
If any of these courses are higher level than something you'd expect for a social science, don't worry. Most people have to review how to take derivatives.
I hated economics, by the way, but that's probably because I don't care much for money...or the study of scarcity? It's topics I'd care about, but it's taught in such a dry way (and I've taken it more than once at different universities....).</p>