<p>Communications</p>
<p>Mainly because I have a friend who is one, and when I asked what she can do with that degree, she simply smiled and said, “I have no idea!”</p>
<p>Sociology
Art
Psychology
Kinesiology</p>
<p>So basically everybody hates everything.</p>
<p>The only real path is to drop out of college and work at McDonalds. Or Wendy’s. But not Burger King. Burger King is not taken as seriously as McDonald’s or Wendy’s.</p>
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<p>any engineering field</p>
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<p>Will you demonstrate this for us? I’ll follow you in suit if you drop out and work at McDonalds. You’ll be a leader if you do. I’ll be your follower.</p>
<p>Communications - ***?</p>
<p>Political Science - read a couple of books and the newspaper everyday and you’ll know more than half of them</p>
<p>Economics - not an easy major, but extremely impractical: too much of the stuff that you learn in undergrad is too simple and idealistic. Only in grad school could you get into things that would actually apply to the real world in a meaningful way. </p>
<p>Philosophy - not easy, but definitely impractical.</p>
<p>Women and Gender Studies - probably easy. definitely impractical. major in something real, and be a leader in that field to equalize pay.</p>
<p>Funeral Studies. Seriously. That’s a major.</p>
<p>Honestly? I don’t take any liberal arts majors seriously. Or language (foreign or English.) It’s fine to learn those things and take classes in them but if you’re a German major without a second major? Meh. And Comm majors. And (bonus sentence fragment to further infuriate English majors) Econ or Business majors to be honest.</p>
<p>I don’t respect any major where you don’t need to have studied it to be good at the skills it requires. </p>
<p>Technically, the major I respect most is math because they can do anything 
I also respect Nursing and Architecture.
Physics, Chem, Bio, Engineering,and CS are close, but math can do any of those.</p>
<p>You don’t need to major in history or English to read and write well. You can gain the skills by fulfilling your history and social science requirements. I’ve only taken two real humanities classes in college. In both of those, as well as one econ class, I have had to write long research papers. In my two humanities classes I had a fair amount of writing. Most humanities classes I am familiar with at my school require a few long essays at least. Not all of the “physics for poets” classes require math beyond 9th grade algebra or teach any real science. If you take a few courses that are intensive about reading and writing I belive you can get the same out of it as a history major. In fact, you could get more out of it than the average humanities major if they take classes that are less writing intensive.</p>
<p>I like the arguments that polysci and history produce good lawyers and english produces good authors. You can major in anything to be a lawyer. In fact, fields of law like patent or tax require skills humanities majors lack. You need an engineering degree to do patent law and you really should have lots of accounting to do tax law. However, any math, science, or engineering major can jump into corporate law or any other type of law history majors flock to. You also don’t need to have majored in English to become a good author. It helps that you read and write a lot, but any humanities major will read and write a lot, so I fail to see how English sets you up better than anything else.</p>
<p>IMO, all humanities majors (excpet languages) are the same. If you can do one you can do them all. You pick one because you like reading about history more than you like reading about politics. Science and engineering majors are different enough that while they have the same skill set, some people are better at CS, some better at engineering, some proof based math, and some physics. Languages are tough to learn. Half of a language major is like history/sociology of that country, but not in English.</p>
<p>The majors I respect least are ones that are preprofessional, but aren’t requried training for the field. Business, journalism, education, and communications fit the bill. You do not need a business major (except maybe accounting) to do the job. To the person who said firms don’t like on the job training, on the job training is more important than whatever you learn in college. Major firms have large orientation training sessions for new hires (investment banks and consulting firms come to mind, but I know others do as well). Also, what you learn in college is only indirectly applicable to what you are doing on the job, so you need to learn and adjust every day. Anyone can become a journalist or teacher. In fact, aren’t you encouraged not to major in those fields?</p>
<p>Philosophy majors have the highest acceptance rate into med schools I believe…</p>
<p>Also, I was thinking of majoring in Bio before, so at that point, Bio was the most practical/best major. Now, I’m considering business, so that is now. All other majors are dumb and consist of dumb people.</p>
<p>I think philosophy majors tend to do the best on the LSAT as well</p>
<p>Women’s Studies
African American Studies
American Studies
LGBT Studies
Basically anything that purports to be a study of a special group but really should be covered within the realm of an existing discipline. If you’re interested in studying the experience of a specific group, surely you can do that within the realm of history, anthropology, sociology, et. al.</p>
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<p>I agree with this. Many highly successful authors are not English majors. Many, in fact (Micheal Crichton, for example) are medical doctors.</p>
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<p>Philosophy helps structure thought processes in a way that can greatly help many professions. Lawyers in particular benefit from this. A terminal philosophy degree is not highly marketable, but as prelaw or premedical training, it can prove valuable.</p>
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<p>Economics is an impressive major to the majority of laypersons. The content of most liberal arts majors (i.e.: math, science, social sciences, and humanities) is admittedly negligible and impractical; the ideal and intended undergraduate education is not vocational. The method of thinking – rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis – that the economics major requires is most important. Economics departments craft curriculums designed to teach their undergraduates how to ‘think’ like an economist, not be an economist.</p>
<p>Michael Crichton? Are you kidding me? If you use the New York Times Bestseller List as an indicator of writing skill, then Lauren Conrad is a literary genius. Crichton has some interesting plot ideas, but he really has no concept of writing as an art. </p>
<p>One of the worst parts about being a writer is that everyone thinks they can do what you do. It’s to be expected, since communication is such a huge part of our culture. Authors like Crichton are a prime example. The fact is that writing is a lifestyle; it is not something everyone can do, despite how much people seem to want it to be.</p>
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<p>I’m going to major in Communication to become a copywriter. One does not need a degree to become a copywriter, but employers are impressed because it proves that one is committed, has critical thinking skills, is motivated, and genuinely interested in the career. It also helps to make connections, network, and become an intern at some point of your college career as well. I will probably minor in English as well.</p>
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<p>This probably best expresses my views. I also endorse the view that math majors can do anything 
– it’s true that a good math background gets you places when it comes to advanced physics, and can be applied to virtually any other field. Not to mention its study is beautiful by itself. </p>
<p>I do have to say though, that while preprofessional majors like the ones you mention are the ones I rather don’t think extremely much of, I do think English and history majors can be impressive if they actually plan on undertaking graduate study, and/or are hardcore about it. The goal of a history major isn’t necessarily to learn to read or write, it’s to become scholarly and analyze patterns. But of course, most history majors will never do things like this with a serious attitude, so in the end you’re right that all they’re really doing is exercising the ability to read and write, which someone like me who’s never seen their major could probably outdo a large portion of them at.</p>
<p>If one stripped history to requiring the skills of reading and writing, one could strip math down (the major at least) to requiring the skills of reading and solving problems, part of which is communicating the reasoning clearly. One can learn that skill in a variety of ways – just take one or two classes on writing proofs and you can probably say you have the “bare” skills a math major does, and yet you don’t have the scholarliness or depth that (s)he can use to understand complex things about other fields like physics, or for that matter, more advanced math.</p>
<p>Good God, can you guys be any more elitist? College is about pursuing what you enjoy.</p>
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<p>It’s CC. What did you expect? :D</p>