Social Research and Public Policy VS Econ help

College Majors
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<p>I’m torn between two majors.</p>

<p>Economics VS Social Research and Public Policy</p>

<p>I don’t know where my career will go, but I would like to study the economic side of social issues and there are two majors at NYUAD that fit. I’m undecided on specifics but I want to work with policy/government/social issues. It could be in medicine, energy, water, environment, education, working with the economy of developing countries, ect.</p>

<p>Economics kicks off with typical econ stuff, macro, micro, game theory, and then moves to global/international econ. From there I would study developmental and political econ and empirical analysis. I would take calc and stats.</p>

<p>SRPP begins with some social philosophy like Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Nietzsche ect. along with early econ and poli sci classes. From there it leaps straight into social issues and policy analysis in addition to some more econ electives. I would take stats, no calc.</p>

<p>Both majors interest me a lot. SRPP teaches the issues and Econ teaches the tools. Which would help me more in my vague dreams?</p>

<p>Would grad school be helpful/necessary to influence economic/social improvement? Econ major Policy grad program? SRPP major Econ grad program? Is my career goal ■■■■■■■■?</p>

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<p>Econ will be more versatile; you can always take social poicy courses as electives and/or go to policy grad school.</p>

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<p>Econ grad programs require you know regression and stat analysis taking those as undergrad will help dearly. Also see if you can take a class on history of economic thought or social economics. You will cover the same historical figures.</p>

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<p>If economics graduate school is your goal, you should be a math major in lieu of economics, because those courses are a joke in comparison and you will need all the analysis ability from them the math courses to do well. Real analysis is the most important math course probably for economics.</p>

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<p>Correction if you want to pursue a Ph.D in Economics than do a Math Undergrad. If you are just pursuing a Masters than Economics undergrad is fine.</p>

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<p>thanks zap</p>

<p>dark and jugs, I don’t know if I want to go to grad school at all. My question is more like this: Which courses and degrees will help the most to put me in a position (vaguely) described in the first post?</p>