<p>I have to say one of the easiest majors I have encountered is Peace and Conflicts Studies. My roommate does that major and even though he there is alot of reading assigned he barely does any of it and always procrastinates on his essays but still gets A’s the lowest grade he has gotten in any of his PACS classes is a solid B (and thats cause he stopped going to class halfway through the semester)</p>
<p>I believe one of the hardest major is Physics. The grading scale in my college for that department is:
80-100 –> A
65-79 –> B
50-64 –> C
30-49 –> D
0 - 30 –> F
I mean it is freaking hard…</p>
<p>How does that prove your major is harder than the rest, TUCUMAN? How can any of you compare the work required in Rhetoric to MCB? They are completely different, and I would venture to say an engineer major with a 3.8+ would have a very hard time getting higher than a C on a Rhetoric term paper, and similarly, a successful Rhetoric major would be hard pressed to pass an MCB final.</p>
<p>This thread is so ****ing pointless.</p>
<p>Actually, there’s a C191 class cross-listed in Physics, Chemistry, and CS. Ever heard of Quantum Computing? :P</p>
<p>Also, there’s probably a difference between a “difficult” major and a “smart” major. For example, in EECS there are at least a few classes that pretty much just take forever on the projects, but they don’t teach you that much (CS150 and CS169). That wouldn’t necessarily make EECS people smart, but it does mean it’s difficult.</p>
<p>Another interesting example is Physics/Geometry and Probability. Both of these are things that some people just don’t have a good head for;they just have no intuition for it. For example, I have a terrible time seeing objects in 3D in my head or analyzing FBDs, but meanwhile a probability test (CS70, midterm 2) I thought was pretty straightforward turned out to have a mean of 60%. I would accept being called an idiot for not being good at visualizing in my head, since my brain is limited in that manner. However, I’m wouldn’t put memorization on the same level as these. Most people can memorize at least decently, and not everyone who memorizes well for a test will remember it later. It’s just not a very appealing way, to me at least, to use the brain (although I suppose it’s useful sometimes).</p>
<p>I would agree that GPAs and grading curves don’t mean much, since they’re just relative scales. Also, people tend to focus on the classes they care about. However, I’ve heard that many people who leave Engineering near the bottom end up near the top in their new major. Though, I suppose that might be explained as them leaving a major they only went into because of parents or careless decisions, and going into a major they enjoy more and are good at.
It’s still a cheap shot, I guess, to say, “Why don’t you try ______ and see how well you do” since no one’s going to change majors or take an unappealing class just to win an internet debate.</p>
<p>Also, I think more technical majors cry over how pointless E190 is than cry over their other writing classes :P</p>
<p>In high school, I took all the AP’s I could, including but not limited to AP biology, chemistry, physics, English Language, English Lit. I received 5’s on everything. Guess which ones I didn’t bother studying for. </p>
<p>Sorry, I’m taking offense from those of you who accept the stereotype that engineers can’t write. The real engineers will know how to communicate their research/ideas efficiently to the layman, whether verbally or in scientific articles. Those who cannot communicate well will probably not go far in their field. </p>
<p>Did you ever hear that engineers consider humanities classes GPA buffers?
I’ll go ahead and be a ***** when I say that it’s more likely a non-engineering major would fail at engineering courses than vice versa. </p>
<p>(I’m probably feeling bitter because I unintentionally did really well in a course I took P/NP. And I’m sick with one more math final to go.)</p>
<p>High school English courses are not the same as Rhetoric courses. </p>
<p>Those who write +100 pages of written material a semester will naturally be better writers than engineering students.</p>
<p>How is CS in letters and science?</p>
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<p>Quoted for truth. High school writing really isn’t much. College writing is much different.</p>
<p>^My high school English classes were a joke. </p>
<p>Upper-div humanities and social science courses raise your standards for reading and writing immensely. I find myself constantly analyzing every sentence or phrase-- written or spoken-- in hopes of extracting some meaning from it. It’s actually quite awesome.</p>
<p>in most humanities classes you can ******** your way to a B or higher</p>
<p>in most technical classes if you don’t understand the material, you’ll get a D or lower</p>
<p>@dogglefox,</p>
<p>Most graduate courses will not award lower than a B. To receive a B is to receive an F, D or C (by undergraduate standards). Does this make the graduate course easier than an undergraduate course in the same department which would have rewarded an F, D or C for the same effort, behavior, product?</p>
<p>The major problem with many people arguing on this thread is that many people are not taking into account the quality of students in each major. For example, many students might have taken a science and/or humanities class, realized the major was not for them, and decided to take it P/NP. </p>
<p>People are trying to say that the average GPA reflects the difficulty of the major. Could that be applied to a broader spectrum? For example, Berkeley has the highest average GPA of all the UCs, does that mean that it is the easiest? Hell no. It means that the QUALITY of students is better. The same could be said about each particular major.</p>
<p>I personally can’t say which major is the easiest or most difficult; I would figure it would be some sort of engineering major simply because that is what I’ve heard, but I can’t definitively say which is the hardest.</p>
<p>And as many people have said before, it definitely depends on the person.</p>