<p>I want go to law school after college, (that may change) my declared major for now is philosophy. I want something to lean on and have considered double majoring my school offers the following minors:
Accounting
Art
Art History
Biology,
Business Administration
Catholic Studies<br>
Chemistry
Communication,
Computer Science
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice/Pre-Law Criminology
Economics
English Literature
English Writing and Rhetoric
Environmental Science and Policy<br>
Forensic Science
French
German
Global Studies
Graphic Design
History
Jewish Studies
Journalism
Kinesiology
Kinesiology/Coaching Emphasis
Latin American Studies
Mathematics
Multimedia
Music
Philosophy
Photocommunications
Political Science
Professional Ethics
Psychology
Religious and Theological Studies
Sociology
Spanish
Teacher Education
Theater Arts
Womens Studies</p>
<p>Which minor would good on application, or could I lean on if I no longer wanted to do law?</p>
<p>Computer Science, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, photocommunications, graphic design, communications, and maybe multimedia. I think computer science would be a good one that you could lean on if you’re into programming and what not.</p>
<p>If planning on having a job after undergrad and doing a humanities/art/social science with little math, pick a STEM minor (if you can hack it - but however many credits you can get will be good for you).
However if you plan on going straight to grad school in philosophy:
French and German will be required (you’ll have to read philosophy in these languages so you need to have the highest possible level in them) + any field that you can link to philosophy (ie, art if you’re interested in interats discourse) + lots of courses with “theory” in the title.
For law school: political science or any field of law you could get specialized in
Beware that right now only about 30% law school graduates are working in law - there’s an oversupply of them. If you’re really interested in law, look at requirements in Canada, where they desperately need more lawyers, but you have to be pretty good at French.</p>
<p>You don’t need to know French to practice law except in Quebec. And Canada also has an oversupply of lawyers, though not quite as bad as the states.</p>
<p>Economics. People who study this usually score highest on the LSAT, and you could always go down a business path if you change your mind on law.</p>
<p>Why not minor in something that interests you?</p>
<p>Do you really want to “fall back” on something you don’t like?</p>
<p>Do you really want a “good application” that doesn’t reflect your actual interests such that you and your employer aren’t a good fit, and that you aren’t happy with your job?</p>
<p>Pick what you like. How could we pick for you?</p>
<p>I’m with DeltaWing- what are you interested in? What are you GOOD at? Without knowing either of these, or alternatively, knowing you in real life, it’s difficult to suggest something for you.</p>
<p>If your interested in teaching, why not minor in teacher education? At my school minoring in education let you get a masters in education in an extra year of school and gave you experience in classroom settings. Minoring in a language or computer science might be helpful as well from a job perspective. That being said, very few minors will give you “something to fall back on” that your degree alone wouldn’t qualify you for. In my experience most people pick up minors out of interest or because they happen to only need a couple of other classes to get one.</p>
<p>I would recommend minoring in a language. It is becoming so important for job seekers to be able to converse in other languages. That is a minor that can just give you a boost above the rest of the competition for not too much effort put in and it can be applied to almost anything that you would want to do later.</p>