<p>According to the department page:</p>
<p>Discusses arms race and the war, social, gender and racial equality, economic and environmental justice, conflict causes and resolutions, philosophy of nonviolence, strategies for cultural and community empowerment.</p>
<p>As much as I will probably regret engaging you in this ludicrous argument, I’ll bite.</p>
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And you’re a moron if you have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to learn one language and it takes you 4 years. If it takes you that long to learn one language and you have translation-related aspirations, I must recommend they seek a different career. Sorry, lose.</p>
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We’re just talking about pure history majors. Not history majors who want to be teachers.</p>
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Actually that would be anthropology which produces studies of any real repute. They at least try to use the scientific method, unlike sociology.</p>
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Because I need a bunch of bints studying away furiously in order to raise my wage. Not by, say, negotiating or doing my job well. If you’re going to claim that Women and Gender Studies majors are even significantly responsible for the improved status of women in modern society I will laugh. </p>
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Try doing massive problem sets, which HAVE no page limit and can take hours, for three classes for a semester. Then come back and tell me you’d rather do a paper.</p>
<p>Sounds like International relations.</p>
<p>“Honors at Texas, right?”</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>“And you’re a moron if you have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to learn one language and it takes you 4 years. If it takes you that long to learn one language and you have translation-related aspirations, I must recommend they seek a different career. Sorry, lose.”</p>
<p>No sane person can study a new language for the entire 24 hours in a day.</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t somebody who wanted to become fluent or close to it take one of those immersion classes at those language schools for a few months? I don’t know much about them but it sounds like it would work better.</p>
<p>I don’t know, they have a separate IR major.</p>
<p>Sounds like International Relations for hippies.</p>
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<p>No language is simple enough to learn completely in 4 years.</p>
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<p>All history majors I know want to teach history or go to law school.</p>
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<p>No, anthropologists generally watch primates or primitive tribes. Modern society is studied by sociologists.</p>
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<p>Go ahead and laugh while enjoying a smaller pay gap.</p>
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<p>Some people are better at papers, some are better at problem sets.</p>
<p>Exactly. I went on exchange for 10 months and came back with better fluency than fourth year majors. Also, language classes of any kind typically offered in universities are contrived, time-wasting, and do not do much towards real fluency. But I digress.</p>
<p>Also, I said they HAVE 24 hours to study a language. Not that they must study for 24 hours. Merely that they have all day, everyday to devote to something that is the end-goal of their college career.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen most language majors study abroad.</p>
<p>Pixels are getting heated and pointy in here. :o</p>
<p>“From what I’ve seen most language majors study abroad.”</p>
<p>Yes. They should make it a requirement but they don’t. I don’t know if I will I am kinda scared.</p>
<p>I studied abroad, I had a blast.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one has said Journalism…</p>
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<p>No, but it certainly doesn’t take 4 years to get to a respectable level of fluency (even for translators). Real language learners would know that classes do next to nothing for your fluency, so anything they come out with is almost accidental.</p>
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<p>You still haven’t answered my question. I think the pay gap would be better decreased by increased press coverage, better business practices, or almost anything else other than useless academic papers bemoaning the current state of affairs.</p>
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<p>Every numbskull and their mom can read and write; it’s required by public education, which on my planet is compulsory until you’re 16. You read and write in your everyday life. It is the method by which people communicate. Math and sciences, however, require clearly more effort because it is not something everyone knows about or uses on a day-to-day basis. </p>
<p>I’ve met many an English major who make up for their own stupidity at MY subject by saying “Oh yeah? Well I can’t tell an integer from my arsehole but at least I can write a paper, which you science majors can’t.” Which we can. Some very well. It’s a more easily acquired skill.</p>
<p>Parapsychology.</p>
<p>try defending that one…</p>
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<p>That reminded me of when my boss was defending why he majored in history (I don’t know why since nobody asked him about this, he just randomly brought it up) and he said he learned how to read and write in history.</p>
<p>That’s my unrelated interruption for the day.</p>
<p>Folklore and Mythology</p>
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<p>You can’t go to a foreign country knowing nothing. Besides, native speakers have notoriously bad grammar.</p>
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<p>And you realize that business practices and press coverage can be influenced by academic papers I hope.</p>
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<p>Anyone can read and write. Only a few people can read and write WELL.</p>
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<p>It uses the scientific method. I’m not even kidding.</p>
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<p>Like a literature/history double major, but with older texts.</p>
<p>Points for anyone to guess my major. No looking at post histories.</p>
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<p>Not to crawl into the language debate but I studied abroad in Beijing for a year without having taken a single Mandarin class beforehand.</p>
<p>“Points for anyone to guess my major. No looking at post histories.”</p>
<p>Forestry?</p>