<p>This year, I was accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts as a freshman for spring '09. While I’m absolutely thrilled about that (really, cinema was the only reason I applied to USC), I’m also very excited about the fact that USC encourages students to double-major. So I was thinking about a rather weird combination: Film Production is already set as my first major, but I would really like major in mathematics as well. I’m really very interested in both, as stupid as that may sound. I know, however, that the workload at SCA is huge (from what I’ve heard), so I’m not sure if I could handle that. Is anybody here studying mathematics (I’m thinking about computational mathematics) and could tell me about the workload there? Is it manageable? Anybody here double-majoring?</p>
<p>Since nobody answered I assume there are no math majors here. Does anybody here know some math majors whom I could contact? Or should I write to the math department?</p>
<p>Awelex,
This is the time for finals at SC. I think there would be very few students on CC during this period who have the time for posting.
SC encourages double majors. However, the cinema school is so demanding I doubt if you would have time for another major. What about a minor in mathematical finance? That may be in the Marshall School, which is excellent.</p>
<p>The film production major is very demanding & time consuming, but apparently a lot of people pack the requirements in so tight that a lot of production majors essentially finish the requirements after 3 years - giving an extra year for other courses if you want. A math double major could possibly be difficult still, but a math minor could fit.</p>
<p>And, I’m not a math major but I’ve taken a bunch of math courses. Workload tends to be pretty reasonable (but I’m an engineering major…so who knows really then? ) but by and large everything, workload, quality, etc depends more on the professor than anything else.</p>
) but by and large everything, workload, quality, etc depends more on the professor than anything else.</p>