Question: Am I crazy for wanting to take 2 of everything?
I just recently switched my Bio Major to a Dual Major in Communications and Theatre Arts. Long story short, Bio sucked - would not recommend for anyone who doesn’t take science with hardened determination and a shockingly intimate passion for learning about the body.
Anywho, since I am a freshman and college is about new experiences, I want to take a Visual Arts and Entrepreneurship Minor. Now hear me out - I have to take 15 credit hours for Art and 18 for Entrepreneurship and I know that out of 4 only 3 of these things belong.
I want to take Entrepreneurship because my plan for my degree is to become a Film Director while making my own TV station with the high probability of investing in a personal TV show. Not to go into details, but I’m pretty sure that I’m going to need to know some marketing schemes to be successful down the road.
I’m not working yet, but I’m going to be getting a job soon and I want to work 25-30 hours at least per week and I will be getting into 2-3 clubs in the spring.
It sounds like a lot and it is, but I want some feedback from people who are just like me - wanting to do way too much in a short 4-year time span and how to manage time and if this is worth it.
I don’t know anything about your field, but generally speaking minors are irrelevant outside of college. Take what your majors require and then do what you like. If that results in a coincidental minor then you have conversation for a party but it will have no bearing on career. I am sure if others know more about your field, they will opine.
I think minors can be helpful–at least early in your career. My older D graduated with a BM degree from NYU with as concentration in Musical Theatre. She had a very nice talent scholarship (merit aid). In her junior year, she decided to pursue the business side of entertainment and ended up with two minors: one in English and the other in the Business of Media, Entertainment and Technology. I think those minors rounded out who she was for job interviews. Combined they showed that she was talented, interested in academics (with good reading/writing skills) and she had the prestige factor of taking business classes at Stern. So I think her minors helped in how she presented herself. Now she is applying for MBA programs and the fact that she took business and academic courses outside of her music major is helpful. Being a music major makes her an interesting candidate, but the fact that she took the other classes makes her less of an “academic risk” for top MBA programs.
My younger D who graduated with her BFA in studio art did not have a minor. Instead she took most of her elective credits in stage makeup and singing. She incorporates both in her art pieces. She is currently in an MA art education program, so she has another skill set from that.
If you can, I think film or producing classes would be more beneficial to get your career started than entrepreneurship or visual arts classes. What you major or minor in could help at the beginning of your career. But your game plan to become a director or own a tv station are lofty goals that would only be attainable with a great deal of luck many years from now. At that stage, no one would be looking at what you minored in as an undergrad.