Double majoring in college

silence_kit
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:05:08 +0000

Are you sure about that?

I don’t know why I’m so adamant about this but from reading the curricula at UT Austin:

An English major requires 33 credit hours of english coursework minus gen-eds.

A major in electrical engineering requires 101 hours of technical coursework. I calculated this by adding up the credit hours in the recommended sequence and subtracting the hours of the non-technical requirements.

If you add in ~12 hours for foreign language requirements and even ~12 more for various extra core gened requirements that English majors have and Engineering majors do not, we’ll say that the English major requires an effective 57 hours of credits. I’ll even subtract 20 credit hours from the electrical engineering students’ coursework–perhaps not all of the courses in the reccomended sequence were required (although I doubt it).

We are comparing 57 to 81 credit hours. I’m being generous here, and it’s still a substantial difference.