<p>Is anyone minoring in another field? If so, do you recommend it/is it easy to manage? Also, if you decide that it’s too much work, can you drop out mid-way? </p>
<p>I am interested in minoring in Spanish but the credit requirements are intense (2 Pre-reqs and many classes and credits required before graduation). I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it with Ross. Have any of you current students heard anything about the Spanish minor? Or do you have any experience with any minor?</p>
<p>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>You are a pre-admit accepted for Fall 2010? you can probalby take some ross requirements your second term freshman year such as OMS or ACC, and then the ross requirements drop off after sophomore year. also I think some of the spanish classes will count for your distribution as HU or foreign language</p>
<p>Thanks! I really hope they count towards distribution! :)</p>
<p>There are four groups of distribution credits (off the top of my head I think it’s humanities, social science, science, and foreign language), which you have to meet three of. So if you study a language it’ll remove the need for one of the others.</p>
<p>Never mind I misread the topic.</p>
<p>I know a few people in Ross minoring in Spanish, so it’s definitely manageable. However, as you mentioned, the Spanish minor is pretty credit-intensive compared to a lot of other minors. Compare it with the requirements for a Spanish major because it might be worth it to do a double major.</p>
<p>For a Spanish minor, you will be at a big advantage if you can place into Spanish 276 or higher freshman year. It may be a little late for this advice, but taking Spanish AP in high school and getting a 5 on the exam will help you out a lot.</p>
<p>You can drop out of any minor if you can’t handle it. In fact, you don’t even need to declare a minor until you get into the upper level classes that only enroll majors and minors in that field.</p>
<p>One advantage of a minor is the credits you earn toward the minor also count toward your Ross distribution credits. Lots of Spanish classes are classified as humanities (HUM), so you should be able to knock out your language requirements through the placement exam AND humanities requirements by taking further Spanish humanities classes.</p>
<p>I’m a current Ross BBA, and I finished my minor in Computer Science by taking one CS class each semester for five semesters, so getting a minor was definitely manageable in my experience.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure where somedudeperson got his info, but unless they changed the rules recently, you can’t take Ross classes such as ACC and OMS freshman year (except for a few core classes (e.g. LHC) in which you’ll be automatically enrolled).</p>