cornell's best humanities majors

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<p>obviously cornell is superb for engineering, math, science, hotel, etc.</p>

<p>it's also obviously great in humanities (well, i'm assuming...since it's a great school overall.)</p>

<p>but what would you guys say are its strongest humanities programs? right now i'm torn between english, film studies, social science, and political science. if any others are really great, i'd like to know too. but what do you guys think of the departments i mentioned? any that are particularly strong at cornell?</p>

<p>thanks!!</p>

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<p>According to NRC rankings Cornell had “top 10” PhD programs in each of the following Arts & Humanities fields:</p>

<p>German,Comp Lit,English,French,Philosophy,Spanish,Linguistics.</p>

<p>Cornell was ranked 5th in the Arts & humanities category overall.</p>

<p>You can look up your other various areas of interest here:
<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Some of the programs you mentioned are categorized as “Social and Behavioral
Sciences”, not Humanities.</p>

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<p>thanks! :slight_smile: but how about for undergrad??</p>

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<p>Suggest you get from the library, or buy, the guide “Ruggs Recomendations on the Colleges”. His guide attempts to evaluate what programs are considered relatively strong by students at each school. via surveys, among other things.</p>

<p>Generally though, one might loosely expect a “trickle down effect”. To the extent that both professors and grad students (TAs for sections & graders) are going to be involved in your education, it can only help to have the “best” professors and the best grad students. Though actual teaching ability might be completely uncorrelated.</p>

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<p>ok thanks! :)</p>

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<p>We also have a very very strong Creative writing program, government, and psychology programs as well.</p>

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<p>I was going to mention creative writing as well. It’s not the first school to come to mind for a lot of people (Iowa seems to have a lock on that), but it’s usually ranked in the top 5 and has a rather lengthy list somewhere on the website of writers who have studied and/or taught at Cornell. Toni Morrison, Vonnegut, and Nabokov are on there. </p>

<p>Here it is, if you’re interested: <a href=“http://www.writers.cornell.edu/[/url]”>http://www.writers.cornell.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>very very very strong creative writing program??? this is the first time i’ve heard of that! so awesome! i’m definitely gonna look into it; thanks guys! :)</p>

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<p>Creative writing at Cornell is offered as a terminal master’s degree (MFA), and the acceptance rate is between one and two percent. The only two programs I am aware of that are “stronger” than Cornell’s are Iowa and Texas (Michelin). Actually, Texas and Cornell’s MFA programs are probably pretty comparable.</p>

<p>A then-MFA student taught one of my freshman writing seminars. It was one of the best courses I took at Cornell.</p>

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<p>ah, so not undergrad?? darn. :(</p>

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<p>Unfortunately no, creative writing is not offered as an undergraduate major at Cornell. Not many schools do, actually, but they do exist. Carnegie Mellon offers a great undergraduate program I believe, as does Miami of Ohio. I can’t think of many others.</p>

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<p>ahhh i see. well as long as cornell has great departments in the humanities in general, it’s fine. a creative writing undergrad would be awesome, but not necessary! :)</p>

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<p>You can definitely take creative writing courses, though, even if you can’t major.</p>

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<p>nice. i’m gonna go look at cornell’s english major since a lot of colleges offer creative writing courses as part of the curriculum for english majors. :)</p>