• ShareThatBread [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Actually further to add.

    They're a Business Management major, Psychology minor. If American university subject credits are anything like Australian universities, you aren't doing an art history subject as an elective to get a major and minor in those two. Your electives will be geared to getting the enough of the right credits for those majors/minors.

    • lascaux [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      no, in most US colleges you have to take a certain number of electives that are not related to your major at all. as i said above i took an art history class and i was getting a science degree. since she is a senior i bet she took the class for an easy A in her last year and either saw an opportunity for 15 minutes of fame early on or just didn't show up to class until this day in particular or something.

      • ShareThatBread [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        no, in most US colleges you have to take a certain number of electives that are not related to your major at all.

        Then wouldn't those elective subjects she would be taking be those that contribute to her minor? At least if you'd logically strive to do those, right?

        saw an opportunity for 15 minutes of fame early on

        It's this

        • lascaux [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          not necessarily. i don't know how it works at that school but at mine we had to get a certain number of credits in broad topics like "cultural literacy," "social sciences," "science and engineering" etc no matter what your major or minors were.

            • lascaux [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              i appreciated it but i would have appreciated it more if college was free lol. exposing students to topics outside their main interest can keep them from getting too laser focused on one thing (see the tech nerds that don't know or care at all about ethics or really anything outside of silicon valley) and can show them things that become lifelong interests or may help them decide what they want to study if they go in undecided. i learned a lot in my general elective classes. i learned about the basics of marxism in a film studies class for example.

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          No, they're entirely unrelated to both. It's a vestigial part of a "liberal arts" education which stresses exposure to a variety of fields, even those that you would never consider otherwise and have no teleological purpose towards your primary course of studies. The minor would have carefully defined course selections, of which Art history probably is not among them.

          That's just an elective.

        • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Then wouldn’t those elective subjects she would be taking be those that contribute to her minor? At least if you’d logically strive to do those, right?

          If possible then you would, but you have to take a minimum number of classes from a variety of subjects so you likely will have to take a class in something that contributes to neither major or minor

          For example a student studying English and Psychology will still have to take calculus maybe