Minor

[Matt.9:22]

We have the "what is your major and why?" thread all the time so I thought it would be interesting to ask about the minor. My minor is my secondary certification so that I can teach.

So what is your minor and why did you choose it?

 

[Lyle]

History... it ties in alot with my major and is quite practical. I also think that you can learn much more about human nature by looking at the past then by most other venues.

 

[fuzzyh]

Lyle must be a philosophy major, because no one else is really crazy enough to minor in history.

 

[WhirlwindMonk]

I minor in having a life. Unfortunately, I had no room for any credits in that area this semester.

*sigh* The life of a double major...

 

[tryniti]

i can't do a minor... it takes 145 credit hours or something like that for my major... the life of a Aeronautical science student...

 

[Stacey]

my minor will probably be in languages and linguistics.. unless i end up majoring in that.. then i'll have a double major in that and music. orrrr just music? music's awkward and i'll need an extra year for either... so...!

 

[AFallingStar]

I think my minor is going to end up being economics. It'll go together well with my major (political science).

 

[JacobHall86]

Dual Minor.
Pastoral Ministries
Biblical Studies

 

[Paris9226]

My minor is Political Science, since I took so many classes in it when I was wanting that to be my major.

 

[ACADEMIC]

Double-majors can sometimes be a bear, and in the job market a minor holder rarely wins out over a major holder.

I went to a top-tier honors college that offered no minors and one major and one major only, Liberal Arts & Sciences, but many concentrations and several certifications. Concentrations consisted of 30 or a bit more credit hours broadly considered to be within a single discipline. Certifications consisted of several specific classes one could add to their concentration(s). Each person had to have at least one concentration.

I did dual concentrations, Anthropology and Political Science. Doing so was quite straightforward and required no additional credits beyond that for the normal bachelor's degree. Yet my honors undergrad thesis (9 credit hours done over one year) also had to be interdisciplinary. That required a thesis committee 3 times the size of the normal one. My thesis was thus scrutinized more closely and more was demanded of me, which I actually enjoyed.

 

[fuzzyh]

Well, since I'm on to grad work. My degree will be in philosophy, but I have huge amount of credits in theology and bible, so basically that is the minor.

 

[Asherz]

My minor is math. Why? Well, I started out as a math major and completed what is necessary for the minor before I switched. Also, as a physics major, after you take all the required math, you really only need one more class for the minor. So why not?

 

[ZACTAK]

I have two minors. I am minoring in Psychology and Spanish. My major is Criminology... I want to work as a counselor for at-risk teenagers or be a forensic interviewer. Emphasis in Psychology will obviously help me in counseling, but it will also help me to understand more of the mind and how it works if I decide to become a forensic interviewer.

With knowledge in Spanish, it will also help me get my foot in the door because I will be able to help a lot more people with the increasing number of Spanish speakers in the U.S.

 

[Chubi]

My minor is Philosophy. I was enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Engineering, but I've decided to just do the Bachelor of Arts and head off to do a Master of Divinity. My major is English Literature, so I figure that a nice grounding in Philosophy will help when I get to Bible College.

Chubi