Preregistration and Advising
This page has helpful materials for preregistration. The materials here are current as of October 2025 for Spring 2026 preregistration.
Preregistration Advice
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→These Advising Notes have answers to all your questions on preregistration.
Don't Forget About Summer and Half Block Courses
You can register soon for Summer Courses - listed below:
Block A
- BU110 Capitalism and its Criticisms with Tim Nguyen (Remote)
- BU205 Principles of Financial Accounting with Andrea Golfari (Remote)
Block B
- BU225 Business Anthropology with Tim Nguyen (Remote)
Block C
- BU225 Design Your Life with Lora Louise Broady (Remote)
You can register now for Half Block Courses - listed below:
- BU110 The Economics of Women in Sports with Melanie Auguste (On Campus)
- BU111 Personal Financial Planning with Georg Grassmueck (Remote)
- BU11 Personal Financial Planning with Tim Nguyen (On Campus)
Printable Materials
- Course grid
- Courses by category (one-page) (two-pages)
- Easily see when a particular course is offered, including when Social Issues courses are offered for BESoc: link
- Major requirements
- Checklists to track progress
Course Lists
- BESoc
- Economics
- (For Economics 2021 only) Part E Course List
- International Political Economy
- Electives list: See checklist above
- Mathematical Economics
- Mathematical economics elective list: See checklist above
EC348 Economics of Innovation, Block 7
Economics of Innovation in Block 7 includes a weeklong field trip to Boston. The field trip is in third week and involves very long, demanding days, often starting at 7 am and not returning to the hotel until 9 pm.
The course fee is $400.
- The course fee covers lodging, meals in Boston during the program dates, and local transportation in Boston from the hotel.
- Students are responsible for arranging and paying for their own airfare, transport to the airport and hotel, and meals while in transit to Boston.
- Financial aid is available. Based on the Financial Aid office’s determination, aid may cover some or all of the course fee, airfare, transport, and meals
A note from Dan Johnson:
As you probably know, the EC348 Economics of Innovation class usually has a long waitlist. That's despite the pretty heavy workload: we read academic articles for two weeks on campus, then spend a long work-week in Boston on a consulting schedule (7:30am to 9pm, all in business clothes at meetings and research sites), before ending with a capstone project that synthesizes all of that using the same creative processes we study and practice together.
To ensure that the class experience is optimized for all participants, we require applications by a deadline of 5pm on November 10 (4th Monday of Block 3) so that they can be reviewed and admission can be offered during Block Break before pre-registration begins. That way, everyone will know whether or not to enroll in the course, which requires a COI code.
It is a course with really high benefits (we have always found job or internship placement for at least one student in the class, and usually more) but it also has really high costs. If you don't have the prerequisites (both EC301 and EC302), or if you can't step away from literally all other obligations for third week of Block 7 to be fully present with us on the trip, or if you just don't feel like working that hard in Block 7... then please don't apply.
To apply, review the application and then take a bit of time to apply thoughtfully here: Summit link
BU121 Social Entrepreneurship, Block 8
Please note that BU121 has a multi-day field trip to Baca early in the block, on days 2-5 (First Tuesday – First Friday). Please reach out to Celeste Diaz Ferraro with any questions about the field trip timing.