Dad wants a practical major

NJSue
Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:54:46 +0000

OP, take the two-semester intro econ sequence at Wellesley early on. Many students do this regardless of major and it’s kind of a rite of passage on campus. That will help you decide whether econ is for you. If it’s not, the coursework will still be useful in many contexts and will satisfy a social science distribution requirement.

The IR concentration at Wellesley has 3 tracks and you have to choose one: IR/Poli Sci, IR/Econ, or IR/History. You can’t major is IR alone. I believe the concentration also has a foreign language requirement.