Business/Econ majors: What courses to take?

[PoPPeR]

<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dfecf7">I'm gonna be going to my local community college next year, and I'm planning out my schedule right now. I plan on transfering to a good business school in two years, so anything I do I want geared towards helping me obtain that. I spoke with my counselor for the first time today, and we didn't really go in depth, and she didn't really sound like she knew what she was talking about. However, for my freshman year so far I have this planned out...

English 122 (freshman english)
Business 240 (aka Statistics)
Econ 220 (Macroeconomics, she said do macro before micro)

after that I'm not sure really what I want to do. My weakest subject is science, from chemistry to physics to biology, i'm weak in all of them. My counselor suggested taking something like geology. My question is, will this in any way put me at a disadvantage when trying to transfer?

Also, what other courses should I take? I was thinking of taking intro to politics or a US Government class, as I'm also interested in those things. Does it really matter what I take? Should I be taking more classes relating to business/economics my freshman year?
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[Syringer]

Since you're in California, go to www.assist.org.

Generally for econ though, you'll want plenty of math and all the econ courses that are offered there.

 

[AmbitV]

why take all the business and econ classes at the community college when you can take them at the better school? You can just satisfy all your prereqs and G.E.s now, and then take your major classes at the good university

 

[Aceshigh]

Almost all community colleges have transfer plans for the different majors which show you exactly what courses you need to take.

Maybe check with a different counselor who is more knowledgable or go to another cc and get a business transfer plan from there.

 

[Shantanu]

Take three semesters of Calculus. Take Macro and Micro Economics through the Intermediate level. Financial Accounting is a must. Corporate/Managerial finance classes are also a must. Other good choices are Managerial Finance, Business Law, and International Trade theory classes.

 

[Aceshigh]

Why take three semesters of calculus? Thats unnecessary in my opinion. Three semesters of calculus are really only needed for engineering/computer science/physics majors.

For business one semester of calculus (or business calculus) would be fine at almost all schools. Many don't even require that.

 

[HamSupLo]

econometrics

 

[SuepaFly]

I would get an idea of which school you want to attend first. Like for a UC check out which courses they have and stuff like that. If you want to go to a smaller private school (like I did) your first 2 years will mostly be GE's anyways, so you might as well get those out of the way. Plus some schools don't transfer the credits of some courses. Most schools list requirements to graduate and courses needed on their website.

PS - I took didn't take calculus (I took it in HS) but my math requirements for business included 2 stats courses.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Why take three semesters of calculus? Thats unnecessary in my opinion. Three semesters of calculus are really only needed for engineering/computer science/physics majors.

For business one semester of calculus (or business calculus) would be fine at almost all schools. Many don't even require that.

I agree, I'm a 4th year Global Business/Business Admin student at the University of Florida (Warrington College of Business) and our only math requirement was Survey of Calc 1/Business Calc (Basically a watered down version of Calc 1). Calc isn't very useful in most of the economics oriented classes, i.e. Micro/Macro/Finance/Accounting/etc. The only class i can recall using any form of calculus (derivatives & integrals) was in Managerial Economics. In fact most of the math was geometry & basic algebra based...

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: jooksing
econometrics

My professor for that was sooooooooooo hot... it's the reason so many guys took it

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: jooksing
econometrics

My professor for that was sooooooooooo hot... it's the reason so many guys took it

There is actually a course called that?

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: jooksing
econometrics

My professor for that was sooooooooooo hot... it's the reason so many guys took it

There is actually a course called that?

Yeah.. its a pretty hardcore course, everyone has to take it. It's a stats based econ course.. hard.. but usefull if you want to go into analysis.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: jooksing
econometrics

My professor for that was sooooooooooo hot... it's the reason so many guys took it

There is actually a course called that?

Yeah.. its a pretty hardcore course, everyone has to take it. It's a stats based econ course.. hard.. but usefull if you want to go into analysis.

Ahhh ok... Sounds like our QMB 3250 (Stats for Business Decisions)....

Does it go into Multiple Linear Regression and whatnot?

 

[Shantanu]

Why take three semesters of calculus? Thats unnecessary in my opinion. Three semesters of calculus are really only needed for engineering/computer science/physics majors.

For business one semester of calculus (or business calculus) would be fine at almost all schools. Many don't even require that.

In my Intermediate Microeconomics class, we were using partial derivatives and Lagrange multipliers on the first day of classes.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Shantanu

Why take three semesters of calculus? Thats unnecessary in my opinion. Three semesters of calculus are really only needed for engineering/computer science/physics majors.

For business one semester of calculus (or business calculus) would be fine at almost all schools. Many don't even require that.

In my Intermediate Microeconomics class, we were using partial derivatives and Lagrange multipliers on the first day of classes.

Here at UF, that course is only required for Eco majors, no one else from the business department touches it...