Honestly, the best electives I took in college was microeconomics, macroeconomics, political science, and world history. After those four courses the world made a thousand times more sense to me. It's a shame these courses were electives and I didn't even have to take them, they simply fulfilled an elective requirement. It just seemed to me that if I were to regard myself as having a "well-rounded" education then I should know these things. BTW - I was a lot older when I went to college, I was something like 25 or 26 when I started and had already worked for two startups and had even lived and worked abroad. I had a lot of experience coming into college and so I was very mindful of my electives. My 18 year old self would have never made such smart choices.