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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an IR major at WM. She is required to take 5 Econ classes to get an IR degree: macro, micro, intermediate and advanced macro OR intro and advanced micro and comparative econ. Plus, research methods is also required. The Econ classes, in turn, have required a semester of stats, and she also ended up retaking Calc to help with the advanced Econ.  And somewhere in there a semester of data science, which was helpful, but not required.  This isn’t to minor in Econ or get a leg up.  In fact, her second major is a Critical foreign language. This is just to get a basic IR the degree. So, that’s 8-9 semesters of quant heavy class work for the major. [/quote]

OP here. That does sound rigorous and very useful. How many classes are required for the major? And it it all prescribed or do they have electives? It is usually only about 12 classes for a major at DS’s college, and the IR major at his college is a pretty evenly divided mix of poli sci, history, culture, and econ classes (with a separate world language requirement).

DS is at a strong program (top 10 for IR although that is probably pretty meaningless for undergrads) but it doesn’t have most of those requirements - intro to econ and international econ are the only required econ classes for the major.

Interestingly, I just looked at the course catalog and advanced micro and macro aren’t even required for econ majors at his college - and I don’t even think comparative econ is offered as a class there. Although it’s possible this is just a difference in semantics (maybe basic micro/macro at W&M are the same as the basic econ class at DS’s college, and advanced macro/micro at W&M are the same as what DS’s college calls
just macro/micro? Just speculating, as it would seem unusual for an IR major to have more rigorous econ requirements than an econ major.) [/quote]

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