What concentration in ILR?

intl_echo
Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:43:27 +0000

Concentrations in ILR fields are extremely informal and will never show up on a transcript. A concentration in one of the six ILR departments merely means that you are taking most of your ILR electives in those fields, nothing more. Minors are much more formal (i.e. actual paperwork, appears on transcript) and completed in different colleges.

Like everyone else, I suggest you don’t even think about a minor or a concentration until you get here and see what you enjoy. I’ve completely fallen for Anthropology, a field I couldn’t even describe before I took a Freshman Writing Seminar in it (my fourth choice on the ballot, too.) I would minor or double major if I could, but Anthro and many of the other departments I like do not offer such options. AEM is one of them: the AEM minor is only for CALS students, but you can still take plenty of classes there. However, not having the name on my transcript isn’t stopping me from exploring those fields.

I also stress that you give ILR a chance before deciding to transfer out. To echo ResurgamBell, ILR is a very unique approach to business that people in pre-MBA programs don’t get. You can take plenty of AEM courses as an ILRie, but AEM students are often closed out of the required ILR core classes since we have priority.