I am considering diversifying my undergraduate course load and wanted to see if anyone has any experience or opinions.
I am about to start my 2nd year in aerospace engineering at Univ. of Texas at Austin. All of the first year classes were fairly interesting, but I think taking only math and science classes is making me a very unbalanced individual intellectually. I dislike is the fact that everything had a cut and dry correct answer. I miss the shades of grey in thinking. I can also tell that my writing skill have deteriorated rapidly.
So UT offers a couple of options
Business foundations program
~18 credit hours of business classes. two lower division and four upper division class.
~covers basic accounting, MIS, management, finance, business law etc.
Bridging Disciplines Program
~19 hours of interdisciplinary concentration which includes ten to thirteen hours of classes and six to nine hours of internship or research opportunity presented by the program.
~I?m interested in the Ethics and Leadership program with a concentration on Peace and Conflict Resolution.
~Wide selection of classes mostly in sociology, psychology, history, and government.
Both of these programs will set me back about one semester, but I?m currently about one semester ahead of the engineering 4 year degree plan because of AP tests. I am currently leaning towards the BDP program because I loved history in high school and it offers internship opportunities.
So I?m looking for any personal experiences. Does engineering ever get more?grey? I love math and science, but I feel like I become a better educated person if I diversify.
Does grad school or even employers even care about non-science classes? I am doing this to benefit myself, but I?d assume a co-op would be much more useful in eyes of companies.
Much kudos to all those that read all the way through. 🙂
CLIFFS:
~2nd year undergrad aerospace engr.
~want diversify in course for shades of grey thinking
~business or sociology and history classes programs.
~tangible benefits?
~experience?
I am about to start my 2nd year in aerospace engineering at Univ. of Texas at Austin. All of the first year classes were fairly interesting, but I think taking only math and science classes is making me a very unbalanced individual intellectually. I dislike is the fact that everything had a cut and dry correct answer. I miss the shades of grey in thinking. I can also tell that my writing skill have deteriorated rapidly.
So UT offers a couple of options
Business foundations program
~18 credit hours of business classes. two lower division and four upper division class.
~covers basic accounting, MIS, management, finance, business law etc.
Bridging Disciplines Program
~19 hours of interdisciplinary concentration which includes ten to thirteen hours of classes and six to nine hours of internship or research opportunity presented by the program.
~I?m interested in the Ethics and Leadership program with a concentration on Peace and Conflict Resolution.
~Wide selection of classes mostly in sociology, psychology, history, and government.
Both of these programs will set me back about one semester, but I?m currently about one semester ahead of the engineering 4 year degree plan because of AP tests. I am currently leaning towards the BDP program because I loved history in high school and it offers internship opportunities.
So I?m looking for any personal experiences. Does engineering ever get more?grey? I love math and science, but I feel like I become a better educated person if I diversify.
Does grad school or even employers even care about non-science classes? I am doing this to benefit myself, but I?d assume a co-op would be much more useful in eyes of companies.
Much kudos to all those that read all the way through. 🙂
CLIFFS:
~2nd year undergrad aerospace engr.
~want diversify in course for shades of grey thinking
~business or sociology and history classes programs.
~tangible benefits?
~experience?
