<p>Did most of you guys have enough time during your undergrad curriculum (notice I'm talking purely about time here, not interest) to take a few humanity and social science classes like philosophy, econ, polisci etc? Again, I don't care if you had no interest in things outside of engineering, I'm only curious if most of you guys had enough time for them, or DIDN'T have enough time for them.</p>
<p>your question is really vague. Don't all engineering majors take/ have to take 'a few' humanities and social science classes?</p>
<p>My curriculum required 4 humanities/social science electives in addition to the 4 core classes. If I was really interested, perhaps I could take one or two more courses, but I'd have to make a sacrifice elsewhere in order to make it work.</p>
<p>Yes my question was rather vague but that's because I wasn't exactly looking for specific in-depth answers anyway. See I never knew that ALL engineering curriculum required social science/humanities, I assumed that it varied from school to school.</p>
<p>I was curious whether the average engineering grad found enough time for classes not in direct relation to their core major, that's all.</p>
<p>Kharatos, the answer to your question is yes. I have many friends who have even gone so far as double majoring in a humanity/social science (economics, philosophy, english - you name it). It's possible, and highly welcomed. God forbid any school graduated cultured engineers!</p>
<p>Thank you! That's the kind of answer I was looking for.</p>
<p>At Carnegie Mellon , all engineering students have to take at least 8 arts and humanities classes to graduate (i.e, one per semester on average !) , see CIT general education requirements.</p>
<p>i actually enjoy philosophy the most and I don't really care for history and all those humanities, I got Bs in those classes but because I don't spend time writing essays :D</p>
<p>I have and will be taking at least one (and early on even more) "non-engineering" class a semester, from philosophy to History.</p>
<p>I make time in my EE schedule to take economics and political science classes because they interest me. it's definitely doable</p>
<p>I Hate History~!</p>
<p>I'm graduating in three years (for civil engineering) and am somehow finding time to minor in history and will have taken 6 urban planning courses by the time I graduate. You have plenty of time to do whatever you want especially if you have AP courses/prior college credit.</p>
<p>I agree, It is very important to be cultured and informed in at least a few fields of social sciences. You are an engineer but it would completely suck if you had absolutely nothing to talk about with other students and even upon graduation. I highly recommend getting your "cup of tea" in foreign language, arts, social sciences, economics etc etc. </p>
<p>I am interested in taken Hebrew classes, Macroeconomics, the history of the holocaust, as well as some religious oriented courses even it means going during summer/winter courses. I just find those type of classes a relief and classes whose fields I would never major in, but enjoy being well cultured and have a feeling this will really help later on in life.</p>