Should I take business and economics summer courses online/in-class?

Question

I'm a 1st year psychology major at York University and I hate it. Recently, I've been thinking of changing my major to something Business-related.. perhaps finance or management. The problem is.. I've never taken any class in either field.. so I don't know what they're like.

Anyhoo, I'm going to be working 1, perhaps 2 (if I get it), jobs this summer to make some extra money. I was thinking of taking an Intro to Administrative studies (Business) course online and a Micro-economics course in-class (because they don't offer an micro-econ courses online). Is this a wise decision? Are they hard courses that are difficult to "grasp" online.. or at all? In the case of the econ class that meets twice a week, will I be too busy to actually do well in the class?

The intro to administrative studies (business) is a full summer course.. while the micro-econ class meets twice a week and only runs may-june.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

There are several variables that I will attempt to unfold.

First it depends on the school. i am not aware of how rigorous your econ class will be at your university. Every undergrad program in econ has a different focus. some are concept driven and use graphs to teach. others are math driven and teach you through solving different formulas. Micro-econ can be the best class you take or the worst depending on what is required of you. Biz admin classes usually are pretty much fluff though IMO. but your teacher could assign you an insane amount of reading or ambiguous (no real answer) type questions.

Secondly, it depends on you. Psychology is one of the easiest most often over-awarded degrees IMO. You may find the rigors of another discipline difficult or you may find them a refreshing change too actually have substance to your classes. You may be very interested in the field or bored to tears.

Thirdly, it depends on how much time you anticipate on spending at your job and if you would be able to do your homework in a quite focused place while on the clock (which is really hard to find) without your boss getting pissed. I knew a girl in one of my summer classes that had a full time job. She said it was VERY hard to focus on class even though her job was really easy and she was able to do all her homework on the clock. The whole point of a summer class is to take 17 weeks of junk and cram it into 5. They usually move really fast.

I guess what I am trying to say is that there is NO way that anyone on yahoo will be able to totally guess exactly how your life is. but,

with two jobs it would prety much be impossible.

with one job and two summer classes you would probably get lower grades in both of them due to time constraints for studies.

You need to decide what is more worthwhile. it would be worse to screw your GPA and lose the money for the classes and not even get paid that much over the summer than to just take the summer off and kick butt.

Or it would be better to totally get soaked up in the school and forget about the job and bust out the schoolwork.

There is absolutely no way you would be able to take two summer classes while working two jobs and get good grades in them and keep your boss happy. i don't care if your freaking superman, your brain would explode I think.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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