I would choose stats! I’m not sure how these courses would affect internship applications, but I was an economics major for several years and always found the statistics and econometrics classes to be the most interesting and useful. I think a lot of people who end up working in economics use less of their theory background and more of the data analysis skills they learned in stats / econ / coding classes. Econ classes that focus on a particular theme rather than a theory or tool of analysis in my experience operate more like history classes, teaching you a lot of interesting information about the topic but not really providing concrete methods that you’ll use again—it’s more like general critical thinking skills.
That said, I don’t think there’s an obvious answer, I’m just saying what I enjoyed. If you’re particularly excited about one in particular that might be the right choice! Good luck with the class :)
I would choose stats! I’m not sure how these courses would affect internship applications, but I was an economics major for several years and always found the statistics and econometrics classes to be the most interesting and useful. I think a lot of people who end up working in economics use less of their theory background and more of the data analysis skills they learned in stats / econ / coding classes. Econ classes that focus on a particular theme rather than a theory or tool of analysis in my experience operate more like history classes, teaching you a lot of interesting information about the topic but not really providing concrete methods that you’ll use again—it’s more like general critical thinking skills.
That said, I don’t think there’s an obvious answer, I’m just saying what I enjoyed. If you’re particularly excited about one in particular that might be the right choice! Good luck with the class :)