Are there useless majors?

<p>Are there useless debates?</p>

<p>are there mad people?</p>

<p>What about print/online journalism? Is that a useless degree?</p>

<p>Print is not good right now…</p>

<p>Online journalism is growing.</p>

<p>How is the salary? $$</p>

<p>All (or most) journalism grads start with very low wages, which increase if they move into better journalism businesses. </p>

<p>So working for the local newspaper will give you a poor amount of money. If you stop doing that and you begin to write for CNN’s blog then you’ll be making some money.</p>

<p>Just Google the wages for the different forms of journalism. You’ll find stuff. :)</p>

<p>Journalism can be a useful thing to pursue if
A. It’s your passion (if it’s not it will show in your writing)
B. You can learn AP Style in and out, which takes quite a bit of time and
C. You pair it up with a speciality field - ex. you know politics well, or entertainment, art, etc</p>

<p>You won’t make too much money - but if it’s what you love then it certainly isn’t a useless field… That goes for any job out there.</p>

<p>I used to want to pursue journalism all throughout my last years of high school, but now I kind of switched gears and am thinking about going into PR instead. I’ve always loved writing and would say that I am a pretty good writer but I don’t think I could see myself doing that for the rest of my life. Having a career in PR involves a lot of variety and I think I am able to do that kind of work. But sometimes I get sort of tied between wanting to pursue journalism and PR.</p>

<p>But I think being a good writer/journalist would be a huge benefit in thr PR world i guess…</p>

<p>I’m a PR major and that is a huge benefit, more so necessity really because you will know what the journalists need/want writing sample wise. Feel free to PM me if you are on the fence/need to ask questions.</p>

<p>Useless majors? No. Useless people.</p>

<p>Not only are there useless majors, but these useless majors are driving the US into trillions of dollars of debt.</p>

<p>What happens when you give student loans to people majoring in hard sciences or technical programs? </p>

<ul>
<li>They finish their degree and repay the debt.</li>
</ul>

<p>What happens when you give student loans to Communications/Philosophy/Afro Studies/Womyn’s Studies/Art History/Gender Studies/Criminal Justice/Hotel mgmt/whatever-the-****/ majors?</p>

<ul>
<li>Occupy Wall Street and the government going into debt with the vast majority of these students defaulting!</li>
</ul>

<p>Students majoring in useless subjects should not be given loans. Surely there is a cheaper proxy for competence than four years and $100,000 of lost productivity, as the major doesn’t actually teach you anything (ECONOMICALLY useful) that a one week seminar couldn’t or that you wouldn’t learn on your first few weeks on the job. </p>

<p>If you really want to spend thousands of dollars studying something useless and have Daddy to back you up then do it. But if you don’t have a rich dad then please head to the library and study what you’re passionate about as much as you want. Don’t waste the country’s resources.</p>

<p>I’m sorry, but I am clever, and very good at math and science.
I just despise the subjects and prefer the arts and humanities. Granted, I am an Economics major, but I have a minor in art and medieval and renaissance studies.</p>

<p>Science kids don’t always perform better then the art kids. What about in museums? Teaching? Human Resources?</p>

<p>All important.</p>

<p>I concur.</p>

<p>I don’t think there are useless knowledge; just that some are more useful than others. It depends on your perspective and interest. One should pursue whatever one’s interest in. If you love your major, you’ll most likely love your career, and consequently live a happier life.</p>

<p>Yeah guys, major in anthropology and do what this kid is doing:</p>

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<p>AlixMRoz, the fact that you despise those subjects makes me think that you aren’t very good at them. </p>

<p>When you join the workforce you will be given tasks that you will despise. This is granted at entry-level. What are you gonna do then? Quit your job and look for a new one every month?</p>

<p>My friend from Harvard says that the educational system in humanities just promotes 90% bull… I love photography, but I can imagine what he is seeing.</p>

<p>Thread is entertaining. </p>

<p>Please continue.</p>

<p>There are no useless majors, however there are people who have no clue how to make themselves marketable. As a whole, undergrad is very general in that for the most part students are taught how to learn, how to research, and how to make the most of the knowledge they do have. This isn’t like graduate school where you spend 5 or more years in intensive study within a specific area of a chosen field.</p>

<p>There are certain majors that do translate easily to the job market in that, unlike most liberal arts majors, these majors teach students how to do a certain job rather than merely increasing their knowledge in a subject. Engineering majors create engineers, accountancy majors create accountants, education majors create teachers, and so forth.</p>

<p>But if someone cannot imagine an employer who wants someone able to write well, research efficiently, and communicate thoughts effectively (things anyone graduating with a degree in the humanities should be able to do), then they obviously have not been in the working world for very long, or has never held a serious full-time job.</p>

<p>Any kind of Sociology major or a major in an a field that’s obviously dying out. Like a newspaper writer or something of that sort. I’m biased I guess, because I’m from a family full of medical professionals, and one thing is, there are always going to be sick people, and if anything, people are getting sicker. Most medical professionals get paid very well and have flexible schedules. My mother is a nurse, and when she has her days off, she has her days OFF. So, basically, the hospital could burn down, and she wouldn’t even know about it until she drove up and saw the pile of rubble the next day.</p>