<p>I will be attending USC in the spring of 2008 and am totally confused as what to major in.</p>
<p>My 3 choices are the following:</p>
<p>1.) Double/joint major in computer science and business
2.) Major in business and minor in astronautical engineering
3.) double/joint major in business and international relations with a double minor in business law and global communications.</p>
<p>Astronautical engineering has been something that i've always wanted to do, but is doing a MINOR in it really worth it? Will I have a shot at any space industry related jobs since everyone who applies for those jobs will have a bachelors degree...</p>
<p>I'm going to be getting a bacherlors degree in business. Business and aeronautical engineering are two things worlds apart. That's why I was asking if it would be worth to pursue a minor in AE.</p>
<p>First off, minors are essentially worthless. They will not help you get a job. A minor is, what, 18 hours? That's 6 classes. That is not nearly enough to prepare you, especially when the fields are so disparate. </p>
<p>Secondly, when the fields are disparate, you would not have the required prerequisites to take any meaningful courses. To take any meaningful classes, you need prerequisites like the entire mathematics course series through differential equations, and then all of the engineering courses like statics, dynamics, thermo, etc. A business major would probably not get much further than calc I or calc II in that sequence, if that. </p>
<p>If you want to do it because you want to learn something, that is fine. But don't do it because you think it will make you more employable.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice sky.
An AE minor at USC consists of 38 units, but 18 units of pre reqs (cal 1-3 and physics 1-2)
My dad told me also not to pursue a minor in AE since it would be a waste of my time and has no relation to business whatsoever.
Is it worth pursuing a minor in something related to your major? How is a minor exactly defined? As in do you get a certificate showing you that minored in something or what?</p>
<p>Minors are usually good to take if they are a subject you're really interested in or if they supplement your major (for example: a business major with an economics minor). A good idea might be to start in one of the joint programs you're interested in, focus on business and take one or two classes in the other major you pick to see if it is something you wouldn't mind taking for 4 years.</p>
<p>As for the Astro minor, I don't believe it would even be feasible for you to take. I'm an astronautical engineerin major at USC currently so I'm familiar with the program. The astro minor is very new and one of the only engineering minors, but it is really for people who are majoring in engineering or physics (except industrial systems and computer engineering because the math and physics requirements are too high). If you look at the individual courses, you can see that prerequisites for the minor classes include 3 levels of calculus, 1 level of ordinary differential equations, 3 levels of physics, and junior standing in engineering or physics.</p>