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Originally Posted by EvoFire
(Post 7758476)
301 is gay, but that's about it.
302, 305, 333 are hard, but not impossible.
301 and 302 are a continuation of 103, but much much harder. Well 301 is definitely the continuation of 103, while 302 concentrates on one small part, Game Theory. 302 expands Game Theory to many many bits and pieces.
305 is a continuation of 105. Despite being a 5 credit course, I thought it wasn't too bad. I passed it in one try, and still found it easier than 301 when I took it the second time around.
333 is stats. It contains math. You have to take 336 in Business anyways so its a moot point in my opinion. Econ or Business there is no getting away.
Your plan A for Econ, and plan B for Business are both hard. Most students will end up giving up on Business because they can't get in due to the insane GPA requirements. If you think you can get a good enough GPA for Business, then Econ shouldn't be a problem for you anyways.
How far are you into your school career?
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I am in my third year as of now. I started my academic career in the fall of 2009. During my first semester I decided to take my breadth and writing courses. I got destroyed during my first semester due to CHEM 121 and BIO 101 (Hard courses). This lead to me being on academic probation. I didn't want to take the prerequisite econ courses since I felt I needed to get accustomed to better study habits. From there I took easier gpa booster classes to bring up my gpa and took either 2 or 3 classes a semester since I felt 4 courses was too much.
Anyways it was not until the summer semester that I took business courses since I felt I was more prepared for university studies. I only took 2 just to get a feel for these classes and to get a feel for the bell curve. It was not until the fall of 2011 which would be my third year that I started taking the prerequisite econ courses. I got a B+ in math 157 and B+ in econ 105. My mark in econ 105 was due to the class being scaled a lot and my awesome prof which I highly recommend ( Seong Jun Choi).
I am now taking 103, buec 232, and bus 374. Next semester I plan to take the two 200 level econ courses and buec 333. ( Is that a decent course load or should I just opt for taking buec 333 and econ 301 in the fall ?)
I want to thank you for the insight on those classes. It has been really helpful. I just have a few more questions
1.) What are ways to prepare for classes like 301, 302, 305, and 333 and can you tell me the profs name ?
2.) What are recommended profs for those courses ? ( I know about ratemyprof and I already checked the ratings for most of the profs teaching those courses and they have terrible ratings).
3.) What are ways to pass 301 and other upper level econ courses besides the conventional method of reading the book and attending lectures ?
4.) Are the classes scaled or does that depend on the prof ?
Once again thanks for taking the time to answer my questions in advance.
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Originally Posted by bobbinka
(Post 7758528)
pursue a degree in something you would be interested in. don't base it on the courses you have to take. if you like what you are doing, the grades will come naturally and difficult courses will become good challenges. the level of difficulty in a course is also subjective. aside from the "every person is different" explanation, it also depends on the course instructor and various other things.
i myself am in business and have found that the courses most people hype up to be the most difficult have in fact been not that difficult (i.e. bus254 managerial accounting). On the other hand, I had trouble with courses that others found easy. Another course business students dread taking is bus336 (statistics), but i took it with one of the best profs at SFU and he made the course incredibly easy to understand. i'm not a math genius, and i'm normally a B student that rarely gets any A's, but i got an A in that class.
If you're unsure what to pursue, i think business has some very useful and interesting courses. someone mentioned that it has an insane GPA requirement, but it doesn't. I transferred into business in my 2nd year, and all you need to maintain, in order to get in, is a 3.0 (that's a B). Once you're in, only the new accounting program requires you to maintain a 3.0 GPA, otherwise you just need the minimum 2.0.
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I do like business classes and I do like econ classes at the same time. I plan on doing a business minor if my marks are high enough. I have only two more prerequisite lower division courses left.
Anyways I honestly think that it's easier to pass business courses but harder to do well. In my bus 374 class the percent of students getting D's-F's is only 5%. As for econ courses I keep hearing intense failure rates, especially for upper level classes.
For me personally I am scared of failing. I would actually rather just withdraw the class than have to burden myself taking it in another semester with the pressures of passing the class being a life and death situation. I seriously don't know what I will do if I were to fail the class twice. I could ask for an appeal but most likely they won't grant me one so basically I am fucked.
I do agree that the prof delivering the material is relevant to passing the class. This is why I am willing to take a semester off if the prof currently teaching is a douche. I am willing to put all the effort but I just want to be prepared which is why I am asking all the necessary preparations. Thanks for your input.
