<p>Can freshmen seminars be taken p/d/f?</p>
<p>probably not. don’t waste your time pdf FRS. FRS are easy, why PDF them?</p>
<p>You only have 4 PDFs so you should probably save them for later…</p>
<p>the reason that i was thinking about pdfing a seminar was because I was interested in modern financial markets. it sounds really perfect for me, but it recommends you have taken econ 101 or have previous econ knowledge. i have not taken 101 nor do i have previous knowledge.</p>
<p>A recommendation isn’t a requirement. If it’s something you’re interested in I don’t think you should give it up. Just talk to the professor and explain that you don’t have previous knowledge. It shouldn’t be something where you can’t grasp the concepts just because you haven’t taken econ before. Are you going to taken ECO101 simultaneously?</p>
<p>modern financial markets needs no knowledge of ECO101. however, it is a really popular seminar and usually people end up on the waitlist. if you are planning on being an ECON major, ORFE major or getting a finance certificate, do not waste your time with that seminar…it merely is a summary of everything you will be learning down the line. instead take a freshman seminar outside of your major, and specifically one that fulfills distribution requirements that you are not so fond of</p>
<p>i am planning on majoring in ORFE, that’s why the seminar sounds so great for me. i won’t be taking it simultaneously. i was planning on taking 101 fall of sophomore year.</p>
<p>what about Financing the US government?</p>
<p>the last thing you should want as an ORFE major is more finance classes. tkae a semianr that fulfills EM/EC/LA because those will be your toughest requirements to get rid of. your SA,QR and ST will be covered by the ORFE major and there are a ton of interesting/easy HA classes.</p>
<p>Wait…Econ101 is a freshman seminar?!</p>
<p>I agree with joelj here 100%. Also, several friends of mine were in both Modern Financial Markets and Financing the U.S. Government, and they all uniformly disliked both seminars. If you plan to major in Econ, follow joelj’s advice, and don’t let the fact that Paul Krugman teaches the latter seminar get to your head. Whatever you think of his political views, he is not a good teacher.</p>
<p>Econ101 is not a freshman seminar. It’s recommended for people who want to the the modern financial market seminar.</p>
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that’s got me thinking!!! i am planning on an orfe major, and yeah i am also interested in these two seminars but the arguments laid down sound pretty valid, but the way i am thinking is like a seminar in either of the two can give me a rough idea of what i am going to learn…and although it may sound weird, but let me know if i am really that interested in finance or not! i dont want to start something without taking any prior classes in it!!
yeah, am confused again :)</p>