<p>There are a few other threads I looked up on this topic, but they were fairly old. I'm hearing that Psychology 101 is a must-take. What are others?</p>
<p>Intro to Political Philosophy and Intro to International Relations are both fantastic.</p>
<p>Yeah, those looked interesting when I was looking through the course catalogue. Not sure if I should split them between semesters or take them both first semester.</p>
<p>Psychology 101
Intro to Political Philosophy
Intro to International Relations
Writing seminar? Or maybe an Economics class?</p>
<p>Physical Education-- I’m thinking of doing caving.</p>
<p>With both of those classes, I think they are usually offered only 1 semester per year, and that may vary by year (don’t trust the catalogue if it says both). Intro to Political Philosophy should be taken with Kramnick, though I don’t think anyone else teaches that. Intro to IR is either taught by Kirshner or Katzenstein, both of whom are awesome. I had Kirshner for Intro to IR and took Katzenstein’s upper-level political economy class, which I think was the best way to do it since that way you get both instructors. You don’t really have to take intro classes first though for Government since no classes really have pre-reqs. I didn’t take Intro to IR until my junior year.</p>
<p>As for must-take Econ classes, the only one I would really push for is Game Theory with Kaushik Basu. I’m pretty sure he’s still serving as Chief Economic Advisor in India, but my guess is he’ll be back sometime while you’re at school.</p>
<p>I totally suck at math, so I doubt Game Theory or Econometrics are feasible, despite how interesting they sound.</p>
<p>Is Psych 101 really that great? I have a 4 in psychology (but I self-studied literally the night before, so I never took a real class) so I can actually place out of it into a higher level. Is that worthwhile? Also, should I use my 4s in Econ or just retake the intros?</p>
<p>Well, Game Theoretic Methods with Basu is the less math heavy version of Game Theory and I don’t think the class went anything beyond Calc I. If you are going to do an Econ major, you’ll at least need to get through Applied Econometrics, which doesn’t require anything beyond Calc I. </p>
<p>I never took Pysch 101 since I had no interest in the subject. It’s got a great reputation because it’s taught by James Maas but he finally retired this year, so you’d only want to take the class if you are really interested in Pysch.</p>
<p>As long as you have the basics of Econ down, I think you should be able to handle going straight into the 3130/3140 sequence. A lot of the material is repeated, but with more rigor/math. That’s what I did. I think people that retake the intro courses after AP are generally bored/don’t go to lecture at all.</p>