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?
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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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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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.
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.
Seems US universities are weird.
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.
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