<p>I am trying to decide between these two subjects, I want to do both but dont know which would be more helpful. I enjoy art but want to be fluent in spanish. Would it be better to major in art and minor in spanish, or vice versa? I dont mind however much time it takes to get this done. Also, will medschools look down on both a major and minor in humanities as opposed to a humanities/science combo or would it matter since the pre reqs will be done? Thank you.</p>
<p>won’t matter since the pre-reqs are done.</p>
<p>are you a sophomore in college with the deadline to declare approaching? If not, don’t worry about it. If you are, my understanding of a spanish major is it is about much more than just being fluent (e.g. you have to study spanish culture/literature etc). If it’s just about being fluent does that even need a minor? Can’t you just take spanish classes?</p>
<p>I just finished my first year in community college and am about to start the second year before transferring to a university. I want to take the appropriate transfer classes (two years of Spanish courses vs beginning art classes). I wanted the motivation of being graded and attending class. Even though it is an interest of mine I don’t think I would study too much on my own. Would a minor be enough to be fluent? (I know travel to the native country would be best, and it might be a possibility in later years but not sure right now) but I’m not too interested in a lot of literature study.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response.</p>
<p>Consider that all art classes are extremely time consuming. Consider that you might be spending around 40 hours / week in studio. Would you have a time as pre-med who not only needs to maintain very high GPA but also to be involved with several time consuming medically related EC’s?
On the other hand, Spanish is very benefitial and might open more opportunities while in Med. School. It did for my D. She was lucky to be able to place stright into 3rd year Spanish based on her placement test. This was one of her best UG classes. She was able to speak after only one semester. She never took more Spanish in UG. She continued taking Medical Spanish (while at Med. School) which was offered outside of Med. School program. She also was able to place into intermideate level of it, not the beginner level. She was chosen for the trip abroad after her first year of Med. School. Many applied, few were chosen. It was a great opportunity and she could even have it counted as one of her rotations when applying to residency. Keep in mind that Spanish was always one of D’s easiest classes (college 3rd year Spanish was hard though). She took one Art class in UG as she is also very interested in art. I told her that she would be sorry and she was. It was very time consuming, it was Paper Making class. In addition, D. graduated with Music Minor, which she fully enjoyed, it was great R&R away from very challenging classes of her major.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>you completely misunderstood me. I did not say self-study Spanish. Maybe your school is unique, but at a very large majority of schools one may take Spanish classes without pursuing a spanish major or minor. My point was that if the only reason you want to major/minor in Spanish is to become fluent, why not just take the spanish language classes and avoid the other ones?</p>
<p>^Actually Foreign language was required in most (all?) majors at D’s UG, definitely by her major. That was the reason that she took it. But as I have mentioned, it ended up being one of her best UG classes, learned a lot, was very challenged (did not happen in HS Spanish) and was able to speak, I personally witnessed with my jaw down to the floor.</p>