Hi, I’m an incoming EECS freshman who also has a heavy interest in math. Is a simultaneous major in these subjects feasible? How many Humanities/Social Sciences college requirements from CoE will count towards L&S breadth requirements? I’ve already completed up to differential equations in math and E&M in physics.
For L&S breadth, you need one course in each of 7 categories.
https://ls.berkeley.edu/seven-course-breadth-requirement
Physical science should be automatically covered by your EECS major courses.
Biological science is not automatically covered, but could be if you take a qualifying course as your elective science.
For the others, courses in the CoE H/SS requirement could be used, if you carefully choose them to cover different categories of L&S breadth.
Note that L&S also has a foreign language requirement (though many students have fulfilled it already). L&S also does not allow AP credit for the 7 course breadth requirement.
To check if simultaneous majors is feasable:
- Count units for the EECS major.
- Count non-overlapping units for the applied math major.
- Count non-overlapping units for CoE H/SS requirements.
- Count non-overlapping units for L&S breadth requirements.
If the sum is 120 units of fewer after accounting for AP and prior college credit, then it should fit within normal course loads over 8 semesters. Otherwise, you may have to overload to finish both majors in 8 semesters.
Why not just major in EECS and take additional math courses of interest as electives?
Hmmm ok I’ll definitely go through and check - thanks for all the info.
I figured if I’m going ahead and taking the extra math classes I might as well try and get something to show for it. But spending too many extra units on humanities just to get the BA doesn’t seem worth it to me. How valuable would the extra degree be to a possible employer?