<p>Hi Rogue90,</p>
<p>I assume you’re asking how many quantitative courses you’d have to take for the economics concentration- please correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>The requirements for the Economics concentration can be found here:</p>
<p>[FAS</a> Handbook for Students: Chapter 3: Fields of Concentration](<a href=“http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter3/economics.html]FAS”>http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter3/economics.html)</p>
<p>This requires only one math course: Math 1a. You can place out of this with AP AB Calculus- otherwise, it’s just one course that covers fairly basic calculus.</p>
<p>Economics also requires either Statistics 100, 104, or 110. 100/104 are basic introductions to statistics that certainly require math but aren’t that mathematical intense (104 is more advanced than 100). 110 is an introduction to probability and is considerably harder- it uses calculus and recommends Math 21a as a prerequisite (but like I said, you absolutely do not need to take it- take 100 or 104 instead).</p>
<p>Now, you can, but are not required, to take Economics 1011a/b for your economics concentration. These are much more quantitative economics courses than most of the ones you’d take- if you happen not to be interested in more mathematically intense economics, including calculus, then you probably wouldn’t take these.</p>
<p>Finally, please note that every concentration is exempt from a few Core requirements. These are listed on this page:</p>
<p>[FAS</a> Handbook for Students: Chapter 2: Academic Information](<a href=“http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter2/core_areas.html]FAS”>http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter2/core_areas.html)</p>
<p>Economics is excepted from the Quantitative Reasoning requirement (along with Historical Study A and Social Analysis). This means you won’t need to take a QR course, which means Econ students actually take pretty much no more math courses than any humanities concentrator.</p>
<p>I recommend you read the page describing the concentration requirements I linked to above, and let me know if you have any questions. Generally, economics concentrators take very few quantitative courses.</p>