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Do people get minors in college anymore or is that an old thing?

>> No.12684715
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hell yeah I get minors

>> No.12684725

>>12684715
FBI OPEN UP!!!

>> No.12684733

I got math and physics minors with my CS. A lot of electrical engineers at my school get CS minors because there's a a few overlapping courses.

>> No.12684785

>>12684733
Are minors considered difficult compared to majors?

>> No.12684794

>>12684699
hmmm minors

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>>12684725
College Minors are C(ute and F)unny.

>>12684733 >>12684785
What are the best STEM minors?
CS? Math? Physics? Some kind of Engineering?

Are they useful for getting into Grad School
or for the Job market?

>> No.12684805

>>12684785
A minor is significantly easier than a major in my experience. I suppose it varies from school to school, but I only had to take 4 extra "upper level" classes (and a handful of low level ones) for each minor, and all the math classes happened to count towards my CS major. It added at most 2 terms to my degree, but a major would've added a year or two.

I'd recommend it. It helps to be well rounded, and gives you a chance to explore more than your major.

>> No.12684818

>>12684804
I think besides a bachelor's, college education won't help you much with industry, or even with grad school. What it will do is broaden your horizons and help pick up intuition and learn faster.

I know you asked for STEM minors, but if you're already in STEM, I'd consider English. Writing is a crucial skill in industry, and your writing would be significantly better having been in English/Lit courses. It'll also make you somewhat more erudite. Otherwise, CS would be good for simple scripting tasks which are in demand these days. Statistics could also be useful, it's almost a universal skill.

>> No.12686057

>>12684818
If you're going to pick a minor in the humanities, fuck English. Pick Linguistics. You'll learn to communicate better without being a prescriptivist faggot.

>> No.12686709

>>12686057
I'm a linguistics major and we hardly do any writing at all. It's more of a science than a humanities field.

>> No.12686725

>>12686709
Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, field studies, etc. These are humanities. Syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, lexicography, etc. can be considered more science. If you're just doing a survey of the field as a minor, it's almost surely humanities focused.

>> No.12686735

>>12686725
Yeah, that's true. My university does mostly synchronic and computational linguistics.

>> No.12688078

How about a major in CS and minor in math?

>> No.12688109

>>12684699
I did at UCSD.
Major in math (numerical stuff).
Minor in French.