Econ student Transfer Questions

Walter924
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 19:46:48 +0000

I am an Econ major.
That’s a pretty chill schedule.
I was wondering how many courses a student should take their first semester? You can probably take more than 13 units. On the other hand, half of my transfer econ friends had a lot of trouble their first year, so maybe a light schedule might work well for you or maybe, since you can pass no pass the AC and decal, and you’re fine at math, there’s not enough new material to motivate you enough to learn.
I took Econ 101A last semester and it’s a math class with a lot of Lagrangians masquerading as an Econ class. On the first day the GSI said if you want to actually learn and understand the material, take the 100 series. The only homework in the class is a 2-3 page problem set, with the answers already posted online, every two weeks. 50% of the class got an A- or higher, I was worried for a while that I wouldn’t get a B because unless you have a great teacher, there’s not enough practice problems other than a few problems in section notes every week, which makes it hard to learn. Also, on the tests they’re prone to doin that thing that teachers do where they’re like, we taught you about resistors in series and capacitors on series, but on the test we’re going to ask about batteries in series, and you aren’t happy with them.
Also, there’s not really a textbook, so there’s that. So if you take that set of classes, your AC will be the only one with a lot of reading/homework and most of the class won’t actually do the readings, so you shouldn’t have that much homework.

In summary:
101: 50% get As, math heavy, grad schools like it better.
100: 35% ish get As, concept heavy,
I think I’ll take 100B next semester. Whats the use of a phd.