This is the new curriculum from my university, although it probably isn’t that helpful. I notice that you do Physics, humanities (STS) and other outside courses as part of your computer science degree - we don’t do that, we study exclusively CS, unless on a joint degree.
Maths for informatics consists of calculus, algebra (linear), geometry, statistics and discrete maths (graph theory etc). When we get to third year, we must pick at least one “red” course for a CS major (i.e. algorithms and data structures, computability and intractability, language semantics and implemententation), although all of these will have been introduced in the first two years. I’ve hardly done any programming at all this year.
According to my calc professor, for a career in Y, major in math. Appearantly, math will lead me down any road I want, including being a llama farmer. He might be biased though.
He’s got it all wrong. It’s ([symbol]"[/symbol]x)([symbol]"[/symbol]y)(C(x, y) [symbol]®[/symbol] □M(x, [symbol]m[/symbol])), where C(a[sub]1[/sub], a[sub]2[/sub]) should be read as “a[sub]1[/sub] wants a career in the field of a[sub]2[/sub]”, M(a[sub]1[/sub], a[sub]2[/sub]) should be read as “a[sub]1[/sub] majors in the field of a[sub]2[/sub]”, and [symbol]m[/symbol] is math.
I would agree with the business = engineering/math/science. If I were to do it over again, I would probably have just majored in Finance and taken calc as electives or as part of a math minor.
Basically, the way to look at it is when you get out of college you can pick either an industry or a function.
If you want to be in a particular industry, major in a field related to that industry - CS for technology, Engineering for manufacturing, Economics or finance for business etc.
If know what function you want, you can major in that - accounting, law, finance, marketing, etc.
I think everyone should take at least one accounting course, regardless of how boring it is.
May I ask why? I’m going pre-med and strongly leaning towards chem, but I was wondering the rationale for this recommendation (besides dodging all the bio-major hypercompetitive pre-meds)
Karl, Missy and I are going to hunt you down and shove your nose full of french fries (it shouldn’t take much).
…um…I’m presently unemployed, too… :smack:
That actually seems like a poor choice. Legal writing is (or ought to be) clear, precise, and concise. I would think English would teach you to be unnecessarily ornate and verbose in your writing.
I disagree. During my English major I learned to make my writing ornate or plain, as the situation demanded. The rhetorical facility an English major can teach you would be very helpful in law school. Also, English majors in law school are probably as common as biology or chemistry majors in med school, so you’d be in good company.
My wife, who has an MA in English, is starting law school in a few months. So ask me again in a year.
Not a bad choice, but really any major that gives lots of opportunities to practice analytical writing (papers and essay tests rather than labs and multiple choice) would work just as well. I’d throw in any of the humanities (History worked for me) and a lot of social sciences too.
Perhaps because it’s more analytical? In general, the more analytical training you get, the better. Trying to figure out why your reaction is going completely wrong also has some similarities to trying to figure out what is going wrong with a patient. I majored in biochemistry and computer science, and now I’m in an MD/PhD program, so I’d like to think that it helped me.
Another thing I noticed is that physics/chemistry people tend to find moving into biological problems far easier than biology people find moving into physics or chemistry. You can’t throw a rock at my university without hitting a physicist or analytical chemist or computer scientist that’s studying some biological or biologically-inspired problem, but you really can’t say the same thing for biologists going off into physics or ‘hardcore’ chemistry. That analytical training really does pay off.
I’m getting a master in social work (yes, it’s an academic field) and will try to establish a career as a pscyhotherapist post-graduation.
That throws some people off. “Don’t you have to be a psychologist for that?” No, not really. I won’t be able to diagnose mental diseases, but I sure can councel. besides, my education lends a very thorough understanding of people in distress.
In addition to what **Crescend **said, studying Chemistry is most likely helpful because doctors need to understand drug interactions with the body, and that’s based on chemistry. Also, a bunch of the body’s processes are chemical in nature - cellular processes are based on chemical reactions or concepts; muscular movement is initiated by chemical means; respiration, circulation, digestion, endocrinology - all of these rely on chemistry at their base.
