There's definitely an overlap between polisci and IR. A lot of my courses are cross-listed as both. I guess you could always double minor, but I'd ask you what it is you'd want to do with a minor in either one? If you're focused on, well, global issues and foreign states and how they interact with each other, etc, I'd say just do IR. Because in polisci you'd have to take a bunch of specific courses that focus on domestic policy, law, admin, etc. That stuff never really interested me, which is why I chose IR. It's not really as though I'm not learning what I would if I'd stayed with polisci, either, because I still do comparative politics and economics and stuff - just on an international scale, which I feel will really serve me better, because I'm planning on working abroad, not domestically. Er...yeah. :D Then again, if it really would take such a short time to do both, then go for it! It's just that I learned a hard lesson when I tried to take on too much at once (double majors and minors when I didn't even really know what I wanted to do), and ended up having to scale waaay back. I wish we could really take whatever classes we wanted in college, rather than worrying about a major. My advisors always look at me like I'm an idiot for "wasting so much time" taking classes that don't even count towards my IR major.
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