<p>One thing to keep in mind, engineering is a competitive field (like most others), and taking more than the average number of humanities courses, may cause you to miss out on engineering electives. This will make you less prepared as an engineer and will hurt you in your initial job search. At some point taking “American Fiction, 1900 to WWII” and not “Hydronics and Pneumatics for Building Systems” will have an impact. You have to find a balance. </p>
<p>As an engineer, you need to be very careful with something like UCSB’s Creative Studies program as you don’t want to lose focus on your engineering classes. </p>