MILK IT FOR ALL IT'S WORTH

[dutchpink]

Talking with Laura prompted me to look into dual degrees at UMass again, and where I'd thought you needed the two majors plus 60 credits, you need the two majors plus 30. Basically, if I just stay all four years I can take it easy as a senior, get degrees in Spanish and Linguistics, and still take French.

Hahaha. Hah. Ha.

TAKE IT IN THE FACE,

Comments

[aspasia02]

I feel somewhat like your advisor again..

yay!! congrats. It's totally worth doing, and not many people end up with the credits to hack it under 6 years.

[dutchpink]

Hey, speaking of being my advisor- do you know much about doing this? There is no information whatsoever on the website aside from one confusing little paragraph.

[aspasia02]

I don't know much, but my senior year boyfriend did it, so I have bits and pieces. To the best of my knowledge you just take the extra credits and file paperwork with Whitmore once you've done it, or to put off graduation if you need extra time. Sort of like declaring a minor, I think it's done mostly after the fact. Not many people do it, which is probaby why you're having a hard time finding anything.

What did the paragraph say?

[dutchpink]

It just said that there was paperwork to file and that "all credits must be earned while in residency at UMass Amherst." So that may mean that even though my Spain trip will have two classes counting toward my Spanish major, the 6 credits won't help. Which is BULLSHIT. Plus, 3 of my credits are from AP Psych in high school, and I'm assuming that those wouldn't count either. So I would need two more 21 credit semesters to do it in 4 years, which is okay, but trickier than I'd thought initially. I wrote them a letter to ask about it, but man what crap if those credits don't count.

[retributionaura]

You and your 18+ credit semesters.

[edders]

I'm proud of you, Rainy: someone outside the music major venturing past 18 credits per semester, not to mention accomplishing something in 4 years that not enough people seem to be able to manage. *tips hat*

[dutchpink]

Awww, I got a hat tip. :D

[theplebeian]

Go for it.

I almost went for the film certificate on top of my English major and was basically 2 classes short of getting it (thanks, in part, to getting a few classes out of the way thanks to Ithaca), but decided I wanted to stay with stupid old one-credit Chorale (well, I was the manager of the group, so there was an obligation), so I had no room in my schedule for the classes.

[hottippic]

For a dual degree, it's getting a B.A. in something, and a B.S. (or B.Mus., or B.F.A.) in something else. If you're getting two majors within the same program (such as Spanish and Linguistics both being within the B.A. program) it's just a double major.

[dutchpink]

Fuck, that really would have helped if ONE OTHER PERSON had known that the other day.

Thanks

[dutchpink]

That's actually not true- I've been talking to someone from Arts and Sciences and they can both be BA programs.