Do the actual classes you take in college matter?

Ranza123
Mon, 08 May 2017 18:17:04 +0000

I’m an undergrad, so feel free to take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think that they don’t necessarily care about the types of electives you take (and almost certainly wouldn’t care about your writing seminar topic), but it’s good to take courses that will be useful to potential employers/internships/grad schools later on. I don’t think this matters as much your freshman year, since I’m a big proponent of taking classes in a variety of fields early on, but as you get to more specialized classes, it’s good to take ones that will give you skills you can use to market yourself down the road.

For example, I include “relevant coursework” on my resume now, and when I was applying to internships this year, my overall major didn’t necessarily have anything to do with them, but I could point to specific classes I had taken that gave me the necessary knowledge and skill set. One potential employer actually quizzed me on the topic of one of my classes, so having that prior knowledge was necessary.

That was a rather long-winded response, but to summarize my viewpoint: yes it’s totally fine to take fun classes, but balance them with a few courses that will be applicable to what you want to do in the future (once you actually figure that out).