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Business students, some questions...
I decided that, rather than do CMNS 130W this term, I'm going to power through the last of my LD business classes and take BUEC 232 in it's place. Since there's no waitlist, I have to camp it out to wait for a spot to open. Hopefully one will today, gonna check every 20 minutes or so to see if someone dropped it, since I'll be working on an essay all day anyways. So now my schedule will be:
MATH 157 w/ Stephen Choi
BUEC 232 w/ George Zhang
BUS 237 w/ Kamal Masri
ECON 103 w/ Iryna Dudnyk
Is this term going to be brutal? I mean, I know it probably isn't as intense as most science students doing five classes a term in preparation for med school, or engineering students, but math isn't my strongest subject. I just figured that, if I take these all in the fall, then when October rolls around I can apply for a transfer into Business for Spring 2011 admittance. And if my GPA for some reason doesn't end up being high enough, I can retake a class or two in the Spring and apply for Summer admittance.
Some more stuff now: has anyone taken BUS 207 with Karen Ruckman? I'm probably going to end up doing that in the Spring term, and I've heard from many people that 207 is definitely one of the hardest classes you'll do in Business. Any truth behind this? If I don't need to do any retakes, then I'll probably get 254 over and done with as well.
Also, since it'll take me until the end of the Spring term to reach over 60 credits, what is normally recommended for your first term of UD business courses? I figured that 360W for sure is one, maybe 312 (finance), and 336 (data & decisions 2). What did you end up doing? If it matters, I plan on doing two concentrations, in Marketing and HRM.
Thanks a bunch in advance!
MATH 157 w/ Stephen Choi
BUEC 232 w/ George Zhang
BUS 237 w/ Kamal Masri
ECON 103 w/ Iryna Dudnyk
Is this term going to be brutal? I mean, I know it probably isn't as intense as most science students doing five classes a term in preparation for med school, or engineering students, but math isn't my strongest subject. I just figured that, if I take these all in the fall, then when October rolls around I can apply for a transfer into Business for Spring 2011 admittance. And if my GPA for some reason doesn't end up being high enough, I can retake a class or two in the Spring and apply for Summer admittance.
Some more stuff now: has anyone taken BUS 207 with Karen Ruckman? I'm probably going to end up doing that in the Spring term, and I've heard from many people that 207 is definitely one of the hardest classes you'll do in Business. Any truth behind this? If I don't need to do any retakes, then I'll probably get 254 over and done with as well.
Also, since it'll take me until the end of the Spring term to reach over 60 credits, what is normally recommended for your first term of UD business courses? I figured that 360W for sure is one, maybe 312 (finance), and 336 (data & decisions 2). What did you end up doing? If it matters, I plan on doing two concentrations, in Marketing and HRM.
Thanks a bunch in advance!
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Some of the language and terminology may be out of date but trust me, differential calculus hasn't changed all that much since Newton invented it (and integral calculus, ditto ditto, Leibniz :P )
Also: MIT OpenCourseware lectures on calculus. Knock yourself out.
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The above having been said I personally disagree with the author when he says ds/dt does not have meaning for ds and dt by themselves. Furthermore, regarding ds and dt as being incremental changes of s and t respectively, I find, lend physical meaning to the idea of a derivative: that for an incremental (arbitrarily small) change of one variable you obtain an incremental change of another. Also, regarding them as separable is how integral calculus works in the first place.
And I know there are some business students on these forums, so get on in here! lol
And I got my marks back for BUS 272 today and I got an A+. woo!
I'm in all the classes except BUEC right now. Still haven't found an open spot yet (doesn't have a waitlist unfortunately). I'm hoping that, since the term is approaching, people will start considering dropping now. If not, I'll just have to delay applying to Business and take BUEC with Zhang next term.
If you're a tech geek like me, 237 should be breezy and you might actually enjoy it. Masri is awesome. I decided that MIS was my concentration after taking this course.
If you're as bad as I am at math/calculus/stats/number related subjects I'd be careful with taking 232 and 157 at the same time. But if it's any consolation, I am actually THAT bad at math.
My first two terms I did without even planning on doing business, so I finished all of my WQB already. All I need to do now is an upper-division writing (since one has to be lower, and one upper, but BUS 360W covers that). I just want to be able to apply to business ASAP so that I can use the spring term for retakes if I absolutely need to, since I'm doing co-op next summer.
If you know any good electives, I'm all ears. If a spot opens in CRIM 355 (Forensics), then I'm going to take that and wait and take BUEC in the spring.
Especially because linalg profs seem to have a habit of teaching it in a very abstract way that doesn't concretize it very well.
All the best and keep us (me) :p updated on the class. Most people seem to say it's not too bad.
And I will let you know, since Zhang is teaching all three sections of the class next term. I've also heard it isn't bad at all, but the class average on exams is normally pretty high. High averages suck in curved classes :\