I start my second semester of freshman year tomorrow. My junior college has three economics classes: ECON 100- Principles of Economics, ECON 101- Macroeconomics, and ECON 102- Mircroeconomics. I am taking this class for my GE requirement of Social Science, but am interested in learning about Macroeconomics (the big economy) because my High School Economics class was primarily based on Microeconomics. I am still unsure about my major, but most likely will major in Statistics or Biology. So, would taking Macroeconomics for my GE’s to transfer to UC/CSU be worth it, or should I take a different class, even though I enjoy learning Economics?
What is the drawback of taking Macroeconomics? Are you worried that it’ll be a difficult course, that it won’t transfer as intended, will confuse UC/CSU admissions officers…?
My professor emailed the class on Blackboard and said that if we are not Business Majors, Macroeconomics is Not recommended, and we should take Econ 100, Prinicples of Economics. I am sort of undeclared, and my guidance counselor wants me to declare my major soon, but am not sure yet. I don’t know how this class would confuse UC/CSU admissions officers.
Business majors need to take both micro and macro. He probably is suggesting the Econ 100 (which might cover both macro and micro in less detail) to the non business majors who typically would only take one course. But if you really have an interest in unemployment, inflation, etc, then perhaps you will enjoy macro.
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If you want to take it, have fulfilled any prereqs, and it’s not specifically restricted to business majors, I don’t see a reason why you wouldn’t be able to.
It sounds like your professor either thinks Macro will be difficult for non-buisness majors or that it’s unnecessary for non-buisness majors to take Macro since Econ 100 exists.
However, if you’re interested in the subject there’s no real reason why you couldn’t/shouldn’t take Macroeconomics instead of Econ 100.
If you are at MiraCosta, it appears that http://www.assist.org lists all three of 100, 101, and 102 as UC and CSU transferable, but only 101 and 102 as useful for subject credit for introductory economics courses when transferring to UCs or CSUs. I.e. 100 may only count as a general education course, not as a course for a major that requires introductory economics or as a prerequisite for more advanced economics courses.
Check http://www.assist.org to find out specific transferability to the campus and major you are interested in.
Yes, I go to MiraCosta. And I understand what the professor said about the class in better detail, because that was an e-mail sent to us before the semester actually started. The online course directory on the website says CSU;UC-credit limitation under ECON 100 and CSU;UC with ECON 101 and 102.
The “credit limitation” for ECON 100 is that there is no credit after taking ECON 101 or 102.
http://catalog.miracosta.edu/disciplines/economics/#courseinventory
At many schools, calculus and economics are used to weed out business majors or at least sort the quantitative ones from the non-quantitative ones. No idea if yours is one of those but it may be and your professor is letting you know now. I was a business major who made As in classes intended to weed out engineers and pre-meds. It really is up to you what you want to take but make sure you have the time to study for this class if it does turn out to be a tough one.
It may be that there isn’t enough room for non-majors in Macro.
It may be that the professor has seen many non-major students not be successful in this class in the past.
It may be that non-major students in a junior college generally don’t have the math classes needed to succeed in Macro.
I spent the first couple days in the class, and I really like it: he uses a lot of real world examples and even introduced some calculus. I am just worried because I am uncertain about my General Education Plan (only in 11 units, but have to declare major soon if i want to graduate by 2018 ).