<p>My major will be finance and im thinking about minoring in econ. What teachers are good/bad?</p>
<p>I’ve found the economics professors fine, but some people disagree. For instance I had Su for Principles of Macroeconomics and I thought she was very straight forwards and comprehensible. She curved so that the average was about a C+. A lot of people complained about the curve, because they were getting Cs, but I just considered that part of college-- curves sometimes suck, get over it. I had Pritchard for Principles of Microeconomics, and while sometimes his lectures made zero sense and he might start talking about sports half way through class, he really knew his stuff. The key for him is to sit in the front of the room. If he doesn’t know you exist, chances are you haven’t been paying enough attention to do well in the class.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. How do you like the econ department? is it quant intensive? are you looking to go into finance? any teachers that i should stay away from?</p>
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<p>I have no I idea what I want to do with economics. I know I don’t want to be an economist, but I’ve toyed with the ideas of finance or actuarial science. I really have no idea yet.</p>
<p>The economics department… is fine… It really may just be because I transfered, but I don’t really feel like it is that great. I came from Chemistry, where the head of the department knew most of the names of the freshmen and the advisor openly said that we could go to her for anything. The head advisor for economics is Alper, and while he seems nice enough, I have a feeling he doesn’t actually read my emails. I’ll send him something stating concerns (for example, I’ll say that I’m not certain about next year’s classes, and then ask two questions about how courses are arranged and something different about co-op or whatever), and I’ll get an email back that is not even a sentence, that just vaguely says something generic about the topic of my first question, without actually answering it, and ignoring my other question entirely. Same with the co-op advisor, Basu. She seems really nice, but I was really worried (being a transfer) about falling behind for co-op, so I explained my situation out fully and what I wanted to know (I asked like two questions), and I got an email back over a week later saying “if you want spring co-ops, sign up for the co-op class this fall”… Not exactly that helpfull. I finally found my personal advisor (the website was wrong, so I had to bug a bunch of peoplel to find out) and he couldn’t answer any of my questions. I completely understand that these are really busy people, but it got annoying after a while, so I stopped asking. </p>
<p>It really is probably just me. I look up a lot of stuff before asking questions. When I want to know something about setting up my classes, it’ll be like how should I best fit in two classes that I need to take as soon as possible if I have a chance of doing the masters program. The advisors on the other hand all seem to “answer” questions, as if I don’t know anything, so they will respond saying that I can find the list of required courses for a bachelors degree on the econ website… Which of course I found ages ago.</p>
<p>Next semester I’m going to try a lot harder to get involved in the department. It really hurts that I didn’t get to take the “Economics at Northeastern” class.</p>
<p>Thanks chimie I heard the econ teachers are kind of in their own little world. I want to take on a second concentration either econ, accounting, or math.</p>
<p>You could get a minor in economics or math (like four or five classes) or you could get a second concentration in accounting (four classes). Quite a lot of business majors get two concentrations.</p>