My name is Jody Baumgartner and I'm the director of undergraduate studies in
political science at East Carolina
University and
I want to talk today about minors.
Specifically, we get a lot
of questions about what is a good minor
to take when one is majoring in
political science.
The short answer is it really doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter.
A minor remembers only about
six courses in any given subject and six
courses is not going to prepare anyone
in any meaningful way for the job market
for example.
What I like to say to people
is take what you're interested in you're
only going to be in college once take
this opportunity to to explore something
that you really want to explore for
whatever reason you want to explore it
religion, performing arts, anthropology
whatever it might be.
Some students have
a predetermined idea about where they're
going after college and try to take a
minor to get them sort of prepared for
that whether it's business or history or
education something along those lines
but if that's not you if you don't
really have
any firm idea just take what you're interested in.
Take advantage of what you got here which is the
opportunity to explore something in a
liberal arts education.
Thanks.
