Prerequisites for the Econ 20000 series

JBVirtuoso
Tue, 18 May 2010 23:29:52 +0000

Yes, the APs count. The introductory econ courses here aren’t really all that UChicago. And even though the course descriptions make it look like those classes are absolutely necessary, no one’s going to stop you from enrolling in Econ 200 without taking them. The intro courses are taught more like social sciences, while the Econ 200 sequence is fairly math-heavy. So if you’re already familiar with basic economic concepts, then 198 and 199 probably won’t give you much knowledge that you’d need in the 200s. Personally, I took 198, but I’m not doing 199. I had practically no econ in high school. We’ll see how it goes.