Minors

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<p>Can you double minor at the Naval Academy? </p>

<p>No matter where I go to college, I know for a fact that I want to minor in a foreign language. I'm currently in AP spanish and I do not want to discontinue learning the language when I get into college because I want to become fluent. However, I also feel that taking an arabic course is very vital at this point in time. My spanish teacher told me that most colleges will allow you to double minor. </p>

<p>On the topic of foreign language courses, does USNA offer any sort of short-term studying abroad for foreign language majors/minors?</p>

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<p>Yes the academy does have minors in their language programs. </p>

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Requirements for the Language Minor</p>

<p>French, German, Spanish: 12 credits at the 300-400 level.
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian: 12 credits at the 200 level and above.
An average grade of 3.0 or better must be earned in all courses in the language of specialization for the minor.
Midshipmen who meet these requirements receive the minor automatically; there is no application procedure or designated adviser.

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<p><a href="http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>From the latest USNA catalog:</p>

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Minors in Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese are offered to those who complete four advanced courses in one of these languages while at the Academy.

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<p>Does the Academy offer double minors? If not, I'd end up choosing spanish over arabic, but I really would like to take both...</p>

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<p>From the USNA foreign language program website: <a href="http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/geninfo.html#minor%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/geninfo.html#minor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Requirements for the Language Minor</p>

<p>French, German, Spanish: 12 credits at the 300-400 level.
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian: 12 credits at the 200 level and above.
An average grade of 3.0 or better must be earned in all courses in the language of specialization for the minor.
Midshipmen who meet these requirements receive the minor automatically; there is no application procedure or designated adviser.
USNA does not offer a foreign language major.</p>

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<p>The last bullet looks inaccurate as another place in the website <a href="http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usna.edu/LangStudy/&lt;/a> it says that the Naval Academy offers majors in Arabic and Chinese for the classes of 2010 and beyond.</p>

<p>So, it sounds as if you can double minor if you meet those requirements, but it's probably worth checking into directly with admissions.</p>

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<p>I'm not completely sure but, I went to NASS and the impression I got was that technically you can double minor but, it is very very hard to have enough room to double minor because of all of the required classes for your major.</p>

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<p>I was also at NASS and attended the foreign language workshop, but I didn't find any information other than with majors mainly.</p>

<p>Is this a question that my BGO may know the answer to? Or should I just go straight to the admissions?</p>

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<p>I'll write one of my former professors at USNA for you and send you a PM. OK?</p>

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<p>Yes, that's great! :) Thanks.</p>

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<p>I suppose you can do whatever you can fit in and pass....</p>

<p>just remember, there are only so many hours in the day, and most of them are already planned out for you. Validating out of classes, taking extra classes over summer break....(providing you have passed everything and do not have to repeat)..... can free up some space in your schedule in 2c and 1C years..... but you won't know that until you get there and see how you are doing. Some kids sail through academics.... some will struggle each and every day. Semper gumby!!</p>

<p>which is not to say one should not "aim high"....
just make sure you keep your feet on the ground when doing so!! ;) </p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>^^^^^ I echo navy2010 from personal experience. It's probably possible to double minor, but there are an awful lot of things that would have to go your way as the post above suggests. </p>

<p>Remember that you're there to graduate first, and there are lots of other requirements on you besides academics. I'm not trying to discourage you.</p>

<p>We had a guy in my class and company who pretty much validated the entire Plebe academic year, so he completed his requirements for graduation by the end of junior year and went to Johns Hopkins our senior year and got his Masters in Engineering. That's truly rare.</p>

<p>I sent the email off to my prof to get some more particulars. I pop it over to you as soon as I hear from her.</p>

<p>Best regards.</p>