Hello! I’m trying to figure out how I’ll handle things at my college… finaid doesn’t cover transient students, meaning I can’t get some gen-eds out of the way and move to a university, I must finish a two-year degree with my community college. However, they don’t have an English program, nor do they have enough English classes to compensate.
So, I’m considering finishing a CS associates there, then transferring my gen ed and elective credits to a university.
How employable is an AA in Computer Science, along with a BA in English with a minor in psychology? I’m also planning on pursuing my masters, in Literary Studies. MAYBE a PhD if I really want to (I enjoy doing research a lot, so I really want to devote a lot of my time to it).
Thanks!
CS seems like the odd man out in that list - an AA won’t be perfect but you should be able to get your foot in the door with CS. None of your interests seem to be mutually beneficial to any of the others though. If you go for a degree and then Masters / PhD and then expect CS to make your career with only an AA and what seems to be a backseat focus on it, it’s not going to fare well.
What’s the end game here? After school, what would you like to be doing?
@PengsPhils I’m not sure. I’d love to teach or continue doing research but that’s kind of a stretch and mostly luck and prestige. Maybe I could work in a publishing house?
Hm. So, your goals don’t really seem to have any use for CS: If you like the classes go for them, but I wouldn’t worry about a formal degree in it. Is there any other tangentially related degree you could get to your career that would serve you better?
@PengsPhils Well. They have degree programs in music, business, engineering, teaching, and journalism/mass communication. I could go for music? That way I could have something else artistic on my portfolio, rather than just abstract expressionist art, and avant garde poetry. It would give me a more complete narrative: individual, artistic.
I’m don’t know much about that area - I would try posting on some of the boards relating to your possible careers:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/journalism-major/
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/humanities-majors/