<p>EDIT: history OR philosophy</p>
<p>I’m a Civil Engineering major and I’m thinking about minoring in history or philosophy. After satisfying the GE requirement for humanities, I only need to take 4 more classes to have a minor in either of these. </p>
<p>I want to minor to “spice up” my resume, and also to sharpen my writing skills. For those purposes, are these minors pretty much the same or is there one that will stand out more?</p>
<p>I’d go with philosophy, with a focus on logic and the like. Both history and philosophy are generally thought of to be useless, but the analytical skills gained in phil. are easier to display than history. History might be better than phil. for writing skills, but at that point you might as well just minor in English.</p>
<p>Your employers don’t give a tiny F about your minor. I think minoring in something like Business or Econ might be more useful for you later. For writing skills English minor would be better. Minor in history or philosophy only if you’re deeply interested in them.</p>
<p>Yeah, employers aren’t terribly concerned about minors - they just don’t get attention.</p>
<p>I’d probably go with a Business minor, or something like Environmental Science, which would be very useful as an engineer.</p>
<p>While having writing skills are great, they aren’t essential for a civil engineer. They are going to be much more interested in whether or not you can perform the technical work.</p>
<p>I’d strongly look into getting your MBA after getting a few years of work experience. I worked for a company that was about 90% engineers and all the executives had their undergrad in engineering, then had an MBA. It will really help you get into management boost your earning potential big time.</p>
<p>If you want to sharpen your writing skills, just take a few writing courses as electives. I took a professional writing course (it was in the English course) and I thought it provided me with alot of real world type of knowledge.</p>