<p>I will be a freshman at Syracuse University in the fall. I was originally planning to major in history and minor in animation, but lately I've been considering a double major in both history and political science. If all of my credits transfer (and I'm sure they will), I will be coming in with 34 credits.</p>
<p>I was wondering how heavy the workload is for a duel major or if it's even a good idea. I don't want to spend more than four years at university, and I want to be able to get a decent job once I graduate.</p>
<p>Would you recommend a duel major? Would my selected field help me get a good job, or is it a pointless degree?</p>
<p>I'm not really sure what it is I want to do when I graduate, so I'm sort of lost...</p>
<p>If you are willing to put in that much effort in a double major, then you should go for it. It is going to be personally fulfilling. About getting a job, how would you predict that?</p>
<p>Dual majors help you make more contacts with faculty…they may not neccesarily help with getting jobs but may help if you look to graduate school…more is better than less as long as your GPA is above 3.5</p>
<p>A double major is roughly twice the work, but considering the fields are so closely related, some of your classes may overlap, which could make things easier.
Something else that compliments both fields is Economics, which usually beats out both History and Political Science on earnings lists.</p>
<p>With a double major, you’ll double the amount of work generally in the major part of your degree. However, you only do the gen eds once. So if you’re going for a BA degree, and you have major requirements, gen eds, and electives, the second major can basically replace the space in there for elective credits. It really should add too many credits.</p>
<p>At my school, this is how it would work: History major- 10 classes, gen eds like 12 classes if someone doesn’t have any AP credits, and then the rest of the classes required for the degree could be filled with electives or another major. the rest is like 11 classes, and if a Poli Sci major is 10 classes, that fits just fine. it doesn’t really add extra work, it just takes away electives. You could add more electives or whatever and that would add more work.</p>
<p>Check into the degree requirements for your school, and map it out like I did above.</p>
<p>A double major is a good idea, and these days most kids seem to have caught onto the idea of majoring in a subject they really like and tacking on a more practical second major. I’m not sure if history + PS is the way to go with this because these two majors tend to get repetitive of each other from time to time and also because neither is particularly valuable in the job market compared ceteris paribus with econ, business, math, statistics, engineering, CS types. I agree with the latter half of @PRiNCESSMAHiNA’s comment in that you ought to consider Hist/Econ or Econ/PS, both of which are fairly popular and appealing combinations.</p>