ECON 101B not offered Fall 2010

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I am CAL parent posting to express concern that ECONOMICS 101B -Economic Theory–Macro is not being offered this FALL 2010. This is a required course for Econ and ORMS majors. It is also required course for Haas students desiring a quantitative substitution for UGBA 101B, which is a required core UGBA course that is also not being offered this FALL 2010. Per the university’s catalog ECONOMICS 101B is to be offered in both the Fall and Spring semesters. So is UGBA 101B.</p>

<p>No doubt there will be insufficient space in ECON 101B in the Spring of 2011 for the students from these and other majors who were planning on taking ECON 101B in the fall and for those 90 students who are able to enroll in ECON 101A in Fall 2010. Many of these students will be juniors. Some students may have to wait until the Spring of their senior year (2012)to take this intermediate economic theory course and will not be able to take any course requiring it as a prerequisite. </p>

<p>Because the university is cutting down on its offering of required courses, electives and sections, some students will have to stay on and enroll in additional semester(s) in order to complete their course requirements. This will mean paying additional tuition,…</p>

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<p>Econ majors can take either Econ 100b or Econ101b.
ORMS only have to take Econ 101a.
Haas students can take UGBA 101b, Econ 100b, or Econ 101b.</p>

<p>It is not perfect but they are by no means screwed.</p>

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<p>In other departments, they’ve requested larger rooms if there are a considerable number of people on the waitlist. Furthermore, people who really need Econ 101B will be juniors and seniors who have better Telebears times - maybe a sophomore who wanted to take it will have to wait.</p>

<p>Prerequisites often aren’t necessary - many people just take Econ 101 without Econ 1 - but this depends on the class, of course. IIRC Econ 100 and 101 are also pretty interchangeable and many upper-div classes only ask for Econ 100A or 101A, so not being able to take 101B shouldn’t be a big issue, and certainly shouldn’t affect graduation if you spend 20 minutes looking at the courselist and plan ahead.</p>

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<p>For Fall 2010, and fall semesters after?, only ECON 100B is being offered. ECON 100B Prerequisites: 1 or 2 or C3, or Environmental Economics and Policy 1, and Mathematics 1A or Mathematics 16A.</p>

<p>ECON 101B is more quantative; Prerequisites: ECON 101A-Econ 1 or 2 or C3 or Environmental Economics C1; Mathematics 53 or consent of instructor.</p>

<p>Do you think students who take ECON 101A will want to take ECON 100B? More likely they will want to take ECON 101B.</p>

<p>As a CAL student & cc member UCBHI said: “My experiences in the Econ 101 series are the ones that make me feel like this is an Ivory Tower institution on par with Harvard et al. I guess that’s what Grad students feel like.”
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<p>Unless there is a class for which Econ 101B is absolutely required, I’m afraid I don’t see the problem. Students will take Econ 100B instead of 101B and whether it’s less quantitative or not will have little impact in the long run across the 30+ classes one takes at Berkeley. A little planning and flexibility goes a long way. There are a plethora of ways to satisfy the graduation requirements and although not every single class might cater to your desires (not like this was the case in high school, either), most of them will and it’s certainly not hard to be done in four years unless you want to do a Masters or double/triple major.</p>