Double Major

[wiscyellowjacket]

I am a candidate for 2015. I have an LOA and am waiting for my nomination interviews.

I have a question about MUDN double majoring at USNA. Is it possible to double major and not have an insane course load. Specifically A tier 1( Mechanical Engineering) and a tier 3 ( Political Science).

Thanks for your input!

 

[SteveHolt243]

Possible, but highly improbable.

You'd need to validate quite a few classes to double major, especially across groups. Double majoring within a group would be a bit more feasible, simply because you'll have classes that share requirements (for example, in the history major, a requirement was a certain number of non-history group 3 classes, not to mention the foreign language). A major in group 1 and a major in group 3 simply won't share any classes.

I suppose though that if you validated enough classes it might be possible.

 

[usna1985]

If you validate that many classes, you're much better off pursuing a graduate degree. Agree that it's very difficult to double major with anything + Group 1. You might manage to double major in Group 3 (e.g., history and English) b/c, as noted above, they share quite a few courses.

 

[Profmom2]

Mine did a group 2 and group 3 Double major. That being said he had a lot of 21 credit hour semesters. Also it is almost impossible to do unless you validate the group 3 language requirement - otherwise you are looking at 4 language courses in addition to the PolySci requirements. (He validated 10 courses of which 5 were Plebe year requirements)