Double major in English/econ?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Would pursuing a double major in English and economics be too hard? I'm a freshman in L&S. The requirements for both kind of scare me.</p>

<p>Firstly, in economics I would have to complete all the prereqs by my junior year, which doesn't seem too bad since I think I can knock a few courses out with summer school community college and (hopefully) my AP calc scores. Still, with the 7 breadth requirements that I have to do as well...</p>

<p>Also, I don't want to spend all of my summers in school; I want to do some internships as well. My prospective career lies somewhere in publishing, so I'd need to do internships for experience.</p>

<p>I guess my question is this: should I even try to double major? If I won't have any free time to actually get internships then it probably wouldn't be worth it. However, being an English and economics major would look interesting on my resume.</p>

<p>Please help, thanks!</p>

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<p>Double majors don't actually help you all that much. You're much better off majoring in Econ, taking a few interesting English classes on the side, and setting aside some extra time for internships and the like.</p>

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<p>I certainly wouldn't do it for the resume boost. Only double major if you are so passionate about both subjects that you'd want to take almost all the classes anyway.</p>

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<p>All right, thanks guys. I'm probably leaning toward English as of right now.</p>

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<p>^^ummm...Economics would be a big resume boost for an English major. </p>

<p>If you are an English major, and can double in Economics, that will help you get a job. But majoring in Economics is much easier said than done, it's a quite difficult major and quite competitive at Berkeley.</p>

<p>If you are an Economics major, adding on English won't make much difference. That was my point.</p>