Help for ILS BioE major at UMD

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Hi
My son will be a freshman at UMD this fall , admitted to ILS, school of engineering,and planning to pursue a BioE major.He also wants to add on another major or minor.Is there anyone here who has a sophomore or Junior in ILS with BioE major that he could talk to? We did not go to college here and are having difficulty navigating the whole process.
Thanks!

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What is he looking to add on for second major or minor? In general, engineering students don’t have a lot of freedom in their schedules (since there are so many required classes, and also because classes are very demanding), so the most common minors tend to be in a related field such as math or physics since there is some overlap in class requirements…

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Here is the four year plan for just the bioengineering courses (one page is list, second page is semester by semester plan to get a sense of workload each semester by credit) https://eng.umd.edu/sites/clark.umd.edu/files/resource_documents/bioe-4yrandcurrl-2017-2018-1_2.pdf
And here is where to find the course list for ILS that needs to be integrated into the engineering course plan https://www.ils.umd.edu/courses

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Thanks! Most probably his minor will be Computer science or anything related to that.

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Here’s the course info for CompSci minor, but not sure how it works now that CompSci is limited enrollment…May involve a little more than it used to in order to be allowed to enroll in the minor…
https://undergrad.cs.umd.edu/cs-minor

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Thanks! So these things should be sorted out in June when he starts registering for courses for Freshman year? How does it work here? Do you select your courses for all 4 years when you start or do it year by year?

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Never mind! I now understand that you enroll semester by semester!