<p>Unless the goal is for your son to graduate as fast as possible (at which point the Honors College may not be a good plan anyway) I’m a huge fan of business students stretching themselves in different subjects. From what you wrote, he’s not being asked to retake classes he’s already got AP credit for, so he presumably has some choice of what advanced classes he’ll take. All business, all the time, makes for a pretty boring job candidate, imo. And I’m hard pressed to think of a student who would not benefit from more English. </p>
<p>H’s engineering school required a minor outside the School of Engineering, and H chose Folklore, which certainly sounds way out there. But, it enriched his life greatly, and did not hurt in the least when he was involved in computer game design. Ditto on the Economics class he took. </p>
<p>From an employment perspective, you never know where additional coursework outside your major field may either provide incredibly useful background knowledge, or at a minimum something interesting to talk about during interviews. </p>
<p>And doesn’t S.C. have a fabulous international business program? I’d think that if a student could choose history courses on recent European or Asian history that it could only be beneficial in supporting future business studies that could involve those regions.</p>