<p>I'm leaning towards IRL as my major, but I'm wondering if I could have a minor maybe in AEM or another area of interest, such as psychology, biology, etc</p>
<p>is IRL = ILR? </p>
<p>if so then I'm not sure...it would be best to contact admissions on this...</p>
<p>when I was first admitted there was a certain list of minors(back then called concentrations) that one could do...not sure if this has changed...</p>
<p>ILR does get plenty of electives to pursue a minor though...</p>
<p>Yes. My D is an ILR major with a minor in Information Science, The IS minor is not in ILR.</p>
<p>I think it depends on the minor/college, however I don't think you can minor in aem if you aren't in cals. I think most cas minors are fine for other colleges though.</p>
<p>this page seems to indicate the 8 aem minors are for cals students although it doesn't explicitly say students of other colleges are forbidden. I would contact the department and ask.</p>
<p>Yes. ILR allows for many majors outside the school, including information science, economics, international relations, inequality studies, and a whole host of language, ethnic, and area studies.</p>
<p>I was told by CHE admissions that yes, you can minor in a college other than your own. I believe they follow the same guidelines.</p>
<p>So I can do an HBHS major in HE and a Spanish minor in CAS?</p>
<p>I have no idea what HBHS is, but as far as I know (from what I was told), if you are majoring in CHE, you can minor in another school. But I'd call and see to be sure.</p>
<p>HBHS is Human Biology, Health, and Society.
Lofty name, eh?</p>
<p>They couldn't even name it so it had a nice acronym, like PAM? Sheez...</p>
<p>HBHS is easy enough to say. But it's a REALLY cool major.
Human Ecology kind of sucks at acronyms: Ag and Life has CALS, Industrial and Labor Relations has ILR, and Human Ecology has... HumEc? CHE makes me think of cars because it's the Chinese word for car... so I don't like using CHE haha</p>
<p>You can minor across colleges as long as the minor exists</p>
<p>Does a Spanish minor even exist?
I looked around and all the info was extremely vague...</p>
<p>is it possible to do
mechanical engineering major
+ aerospace engineering minor
+ applied engineering sciences minor ? or is <- only for majors?</p>
<p>If there is an established minor, then you can minor in it. Otherwise, you can just take lots of courses in a specific field. Having the course(s) on your transcript is what most matters.</p>
<p>ChandlerBing: </p>
<p>Yeah, I read that before but I guess there isn't a "minor" per se, it's a concentration.
I'd like to focus less on the literature aspect and more on the fluency aspect, but I think I can choose to do that within the concentration.</p>
<p>concentration and minor are often interchangeable here at cornell...</p>
<p>and trust me...a Spanish minor is no easy thing to do...</p>
<p>you have to be pretty fluent as it is...being a native speaker i was shocked at how well my non-native peers spoke...</p>
<p>if you're looking to improve on conversation but not necessarily want to do literature then just take pure language courses and avoid going into a minor/major...</p>
<p>I was taking Span214:Reading in Modern Iberian Literature</p>
<p>which is the capstone course for Spanish majors...it's the equivalent of high school british literature (in terms of difficulty) but taught in pure spanish with a ton of reading...</p>
<p>Spanish is the most popular language at Cornell, if you're coming into Cornell with AP Language level you should be fine...</p>
<p>Ah ok, that's what I thought.</p>
<p>Oh no, I'm DEFINITELY going to do a Spanish minor if I get into Cornell, the only thing that would prevent me from doing that is if I can't fulfill the requirements for my major.</p>
<p>I'm a non-native speaker and (not to brag or anything) I can speak more or less fluently, take AP Spanish, and am pretty much the definition of Spanish freak.</p>
<p>It's not that I mind reading the literature: I just don't like literature in general. I went to Spain 2 years ago with my family and picked up the Castilian accent (which is possibly THE most fun accent in the world, come on who can resist lisping??) so most people in the US find it pretty strange hearing a Castilian accent come out of an American Jew :P</p>
<p>yeah the professor in charge of Span214 speaks in that accent...</p>