<p>i am about to apply for transferring after one year at ccc and am stuck with choosing a major. i like both history and art history, but the latter i prefer for career opportunities.<br>
basically, history is more popular than art history. for history i am in the process of completing the major requirements, while for art history only partially (because my school does not offer all the required courses). in which major would i have a better chance of getting in? also wont the admissions people understand how art history is extremely similar to history and consider my history courses a necessary background for art history? and wont they consider french an important courses for art history?</p>
<p>by third favourite major is classics, but i largely cancelled it out of my possibilities because it requires a major sacrifice of learning greek and latin. and i know how ridiculously difficult latin is. even if greek and latin is not required for majoring in classics, i'd hate to work with translations all my life.</p>
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i like both history and art history, but the latter i prefer for career opportunities.
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<p>sorry to bother you, but what exactly do you plan on doing as your career?</p>
<p>I mean, not to put down history major or anything, but what can you do with it besides becoming a professor or being featured in History Channel?</p>
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I mean, not to put down history major or anything, but what can you do with it besides becoming a professor or being featured in History Channel?
<p>Actually, I believe a lot of companies would hire history majors if they are looking for someone with good writing/analytical skills. I believe history majors can go into a multitude of occupations including legal work (assistant or law school to become a full-fledged lawyer), journalism (not JUST for a history magazine), being an editor, communications, human resources, research, or teaching.</p>
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I think it is rude for you to put down someone else's aspirations or to suggest that being a professor is not a valid aspiration
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<p>Please cite where I said being a professor is a bad choice or anything even close to it, cuz as a matter of fact, I admire a career as professor. </p>
<p>But really, the OP has said " i like both history and art history, but the latter i prefer for career opportunities.", meaning that he is planning on doing something ART related and at the same time with some history background. I was just curious why being a history major would NOT give him the same career opportunity as majoring art history.</p>
<p>actually i realized you did not say that and i had gotten the wrong idea so i edited my post, but you replied so fast that you did not see the edit! sorry for the confusion lol...</p>
<p>art history offers career opportunities such as curatorship or other museum work. also, communication skills are essential (french and german is required for phD)
i think history is a vague area. today history is more of a social than the traditional political history. it's much more popular than art history, of course. but to me, history offers a background informations for majors like classics, art history, literature, philosophy, economics (john adams).
my question was, is it better for me to declare my major as history (for which i completed the requirements)? how important is ur major in admissions.</p>