<p>How good is USC about switching schools or double majoring in two different schools? because I'm doing Biomedical Engineering and I wanted to do International Relations as well. Thanks for your help! :)</p>
<p>According to the folks at the admitted students reception, they STRONGLY encourage folks to double-major in different fields. They will likely be very happy to help you with your double-major in biomed engineering & international relations. In engineering, you meet with your advisor before registering every semester, so the advisor should be able to help you with this.</p>
<p>Thanks!! Is your son/daughter going to USC as well??</p>
<p>My son really wants to go to USC & will probably be starting in the fall, also in engineering, but undecided as to which specialty. We're trying to convince him to go to AzSU (which would be totally free since he's a NMF, but he's not interested).</p>
<p>do people do double major + minor?</p>
<p>USC claims that you can double major yet still graduate in 4 years. How is this possible? Would you have an insane schedule?</p>
<p>You need to work closely with your advisor--it also helps if you enter with a lot of credits--AP or from taking college courses while in HS. They do have samples in the engineering booklet they sent us of some schedules of folks who had double-majors of engineering & something else & graduated in 4 years.
Certainly, you won't have room to make many changes, particularly after your freshman year. It is possible, but planning will make all the difference.</p>
<p>Majors in the College are small, so it's entirely possible to graduate in 4 years without any summer classes or AP. But generally, people change majors and some classes are wasted for other requirements. Then, you have to take summer classes, etc. to graduate within 4 years. I'm double majoring in economics and religion, and the economics major requires only 44 units, while religion is just 32!</p>
<p>For engineering, I believe you need to have a total of >120 or 130 total credits & they have a LOT of requirements. That's probably why you need to meet with an advisor before each semester (which seems like a good idea anyway).
For any degree, there are some distritubtion/general ed requirements. For many fields, you also need 3 semesters of foreign language.</p>
<p>Don't forget that there is the possibility of summer classes too. But there are restrictions on taking summer classes at another college and transfering them. For Viterbi in particular, you can only take lower division courses (100-200 range) outside USC and once you have at least 64 combined credits, then you can only take 8 more transfer credits.</p>
<p>GE requirements for all students is 32 credits. 24 credits are from the cat I-VI humanties courses and 8 credits are from the two writing courses. And then each degree has its own individual requirements (like foreign languages, math courses, sciences, etc.)</p>
<p>The Course Catalogue is the best place to see the degree requirements for any degree: <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2005/%5B/url%5D">http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat2005/</a>
If you click on "The Schools" link on the left, it should bring up a list of all the professional schools as well as every department in the College. Just click on the school/department of your desired major and then click on "Undergraduate Degrees" on the left bar.</p>
<p>wait protokurios, you only need 44 units total to get a BA in econ? since you only need 76 units total to major in those two, are you graduating in less than 4 or even 3 yr?</p>
<p>You still will need the minimum core requirements & # of credits at USC (64) & total (128-136 for BS) to graduate with a degree from USC. The info is all in the catalog.</p>
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<p>Actually, there's also the foreign language requirement, which would be 12 units for 3 semesters, but I passed the requirement with the entrance exam. There's the math requirement too, but I waived out of it with a 5 on the Calc BC exam. There's also a computing course requirement. Including all that would add 18-20 units to the required courseload for the major.</p>
<p>And yes, for GEs we need everything redski59 wrote and also the diversity course (36 units).</p>
<p>I think, you need a total of 128 units of any kind in order to graduate with any major. If you're not required to take that many for your major, then you have to make up the difference with elective units.</p>
<p>wow, double-majoring in BME. That's hard stuff!</p>
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<p>Yes, even if you have all your GEs and major requirements taken care of, you still need a total of 128 units, so you need to fill in the remaining units with AP or other elective units.</p>
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If you're wise, take the diversity requirement with one of your GEs. My GE VI class is also fulfilling my diversity req.</p>
<p>hey i'm going to marshall, is there a way i can major in like business and something w/entertainment? sorry if thats vague, im not sure what i want to do yet exactly, but probably something like that....</p>
<p>My AP Euro class covered TO's humanities/social science requirement (Is that the equivalent?). I have to take diversity separately.</p>