Value of a Minor in an undergrad program

blossom
Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:32:49 +0000

OP, don’t cut the bologna too thin. Your kid could take a Gen Ed course in Psychology and decide that a deeper understanding of how the brain functions will be a much better complement to her interests in CS than math or cyber. Or take “freshman linguistics” and realize that it’s everything, all together, wrapped with a bow-- math, modeling, cog sci, and a tremendous asset for anything to do with AI or machine learning down the road.

Some of this stuff just cannot be mapped or planned ahead of time. And NONE of this needs to be a “minor”. A CS major who loves linguistics is just fine, even without “departmental approval”!