I am currently attending a community college, and I am considering taking economics during summer. I want to get an “A” int it, so I was wondering if its a bad idea to take it during summer, are economics courses generally hard?
Older son is current UCD student. First summer he came home to work part-time and took a Micro Econ class at the local CC. Summer courses are compressed so you have a 15 week course reduced to 6-8 weeks depending upon the CCC, so the course will go through the material faster and you will have to keep up with the faster pace. One Econ course should not be a problem.
Was the course an easy “A” for your son? Because I have taken a math course during summer and it was extemely stressful and I do not want to go through the same thing again. I just want to take something nice and easy that I can take to get out of the way.
A good economics class won’t be “easy”. In fact, very little of new learning is “easy” cause learning is hard. If you take something that has very little new information to learn, that will be easy but useless.
The Econ course was not an easy A. He found it to be a lot of busy work, but since it was the only class he was taking for the summer, it wasn’t much of a problem other than devoting some time to keep on the readings and short answer problems assigned each week.