Yajimari21

Since all of the WRITING 20 courses are full, I was thinking about taking this class (since I want to take some Econ/Accounting electives during my years). But looking at the reviews on ratemyprofessor.com, I'm not so sure anymore... The problem is, though, that if I don't take the class this semester with her, I'll have to wait until my sophomore year to start w/ Econ (because I have to do Writing 20 in the spring). Any advice?

My other first semester classes:

CHEM 151
MATH 103
EGR 10
EGR 53
HIST 111A (atm, I'd drop this class to take econ)

HiWei

I won't sugarcoat it and tell you that people only rate her poorly because they do poorly because from what I hear the class is legitimately hard. Econ is the largest major (I believe) and they have to have a way to weed out the people who aren't devoted to it. In my opinion though, if you stay on top of the coursework, you will do fine because people definitely do get As in her courses.

SBR

With a class load like chem 151, math 103, and egr 53, I'd stay away from another hard class.

godevils2011

You're going to have a tough semester as it is. I'd advise against taking Econ 51.

dalaboy

But is your schedule going to get any easier? There's going to more hard and time-consuming courses coming your way as an engineer. And I think starting econ 51 in your sophomore year is getting a little bit late as an engineer if you want to take some interesting electives (there's going to be more class schedule conflicts that you will have to work out, trying to get into the better engineering professor's class and etc)

And maybe leachman will still teach it the other semester you are planning to take it (or maybe not) it really depends on how risk-averse you are.

SBR

If the OP really wants to take econ, why not push back chem 151 to second semester and take econ 51 first. Plenty of people wait until 2nd semester to begin orgo anyway.

Yajimari21

I just went back on ACES and saw that I have a time conflict between when my MATH 103 class is meeting and the ECON Lecture on Mon, Wed, Fri mornings. All of the other math classes are full or over-booked (I even checked Math 32), so there's no way of me taking the ECON 51 at all this semester =/. The rigid nature of the engineering curriculum sucks...

Question: Since I'm taking CHEM 151 in the fall and am going BME (Chem is the "technical course" we have to take), would I not be required to take CHEM 22L in the spring? Maybe I could squeeze in Econ during my freshman year that way?

HiWei

Why would you have to take the prereq for a course you've already taken... Of course you wouldn't have to take 22 if you've taken 151.