Why Minor in Computer Science?

While computer science is its own academic field, it becomes the most useful when it's paired with another subject. Most modern-day stock market trading and prediction systems are built with core ideas form the field. The Human Genome Project, for example, could not have happened without the input of computer scientists. Not only did the project involve lots of programmers, many of the building techniques for building the genome like Shotgun Sequencing were developed by computer scientists from concepts at the core of computer science. Even fields like literary analysis, music, or sociology that seem on the opposite spectrum from computer science have made new breakthroughs using ideas from computer science. 

No matter your field, a minor in computer science greatly expands what you can do, as well as the jobs that are open to you when you graduate. Even non-majors taking a single class in the department have commented on how the techniques that we learn in class have helped them in their internships and enabled them to do things that no one else in their department could do.