<p>What is an easy A+ class? I need an A+ to preserve my law school GPA. Thanks.</p>
<p>most anything with ‘studies’ in the title i.e. African-American Studies, American Studies, Chicano Studies, Asian Studies, Development Studies, Ethnic Studies, Eurasian Studies, Gender and Women Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Italian Studies, East European Studies, Buddhist Studies, Celtic Studies, and Legal Studies. </p>
<p>IMHO…WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY too much tax dollars supporting the majority of these so called studies majors…as if there aren’t enough cultural narcissists running around.</p>
<p>^wow. it sounds to me like you’re the narcissist</p>
<p>so easy A classes are not good enough lol?</p>
<p>you need an easy A+ class? (and A+ is the same as an A GPA-wise, isnt it?)</p>
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<p>i dunno, most are easy but to get the A (or A+ w/e) you have to put in a little work. Besides that, getting into these classes are really tough b/c a lot of seats are reserved for declared majors.</p>
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<p>I agree. There are too many students at Cal and in America that don’t know basic sciences and math. These are subjects that will progress society and we’ve got too many people being undereducated in them. </p>
<p>And I’m tired of hearing people say “well some people are strong in some subjects and other people are strong in other subjects”…I call BS. Any technical major could knock out a cake majors coursework but the opposite cannot be said (imagine an EECS major having trouble in psychology).</p>
<p>*** are you serious? there’s a whole department dedicated to gender and women studies? </p>
<p>i can count the number of NECESSARY classes in that department on one hand: (1) making a sandwich class, (2) knitting class, (3) how to pleasure your man class, (4) washing the dishes class, (5) doing the laundry class</p>
<p>jesus, what’s the world coming to these days when we have an entire department dedicated to the study of WOMEN…</p>
<p>lol ■■■■■.</p>
<p>though I have to point out, gender =/= sex in sociological theory (which is what all these “studies” classes ultimately subscribe to).</p>
<p>The Dems need to do studies and crack down on majors that don’t lead to job creation or productively contributing to society.
One of the main reasons we are in a budget crisis in the school system IS because of these multicultural study programs. This started happening a about a decade ago when students were complaining in the classroom about US education being too ‘Euro-centric’. Once you open the door to one group claiming special rights, it becomes obligatory to any other group that raises the issue. A bunch of students wanted all the ethnic, cultural, and religious classes broken up by denomination. Then when funds were moved to support such programs, the same students plus the others started complaining about ‘where are all the sections and classes I need!?!??!’</p>
<p>I was Budget Commissioner and VP of Finance and tried to explain to them that SOMEONE i.e. YOU STUDENTS have to pay for these programs DUH! Many have this delusional idea that Sacramento is this magical giving money tree bahahahah. Hopefully Jerry will start the sheering the allocated budget and hopefully fleecing the sheeple involved who created these soapbox jobs and majors. Time to take your medication California…TIME TOO CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT!</p>
<p>So…(put up or shut up) either pay more and more tuition to support these majors or do something about it. You people are suppose to be the next generation of leaders so start assuming the responsibilities as such. </p>
<pre><code>Personally, I think Cal students through shared governance should be allowed to democratically vote whether they want to support these majors. If the majority vote NO, then the departments who want these programs should go back to fund raising and grant scouting. That is the way it was always done before people and groups started demanding that the taxpayers should support them. Hopefully, it will move in that direction with the local municipals getting more leeway in how they think funds should be prioritized.
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<p>Well, it is true to some extent. Some people may get A+ and A grades in their technical major courses, but only A- or B grades in their humanities and social studies breadth courses (including upper division courses). Of course, it is much rarer for a humanities or social studies major to take an upper division technical course (or even a lower division technical course other than a “10” course).</p>
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<p>Whatever you think of it, the Department of Ethnic Studies is [considerably</a> more than about a decade old](<a href=“http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/40th/]considerably”>http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/40th/).</p>
<p>As far as the California budget crisis goes, the main reason is that it is easier to increase spending (including by voter passed initiatives that require increased spending without any way to pay for it) than it is to raise taxes to pay for it. The existence, or lack thereof, of a specific department or major at one UC campus is a drop in the bucket compared to that.</p>
<p>I realize that but it is HOW the money has been allocated. I’d get into it more in depth at some other point but have to go. I still think my proposal is the most fair for the student body as a WHOLE.</p>
<p>What I think you are bringing up is the bond measures, which is for infrastructure and improvements, not human labor. Philanthropic grants typically have to be allocated to tangible upgrades and not funding for faculty and staff as well.</p>
<p>Actually, I was referring to such things as Proposition 13 (limits taxes), Proposition 98 (sets minimum K-12 spending), Proposition 184 (requires greatly increased prison spending). Although bonds which defer costs for future legislators to deal with also help build up the problem.</p>
<p>Of course, voters want to pay less taxes, get more of various government services, and get projects done while postponing paying for them, but eventually the debts have to be paid.</p>
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<p>Maybe the correct belief should be that people think differently? For example, those who think in this are better suited at solving math and science problems, while those who think in another way are better at critical thinking and writing effectively. Of course there will be those students who have excel in both, but for the most part I believe there is a clear distinction. </p>
<p>Although I hope that I am wrong because then it means that I still have a chance at getting better at math/science. </p>
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<p>If there is one of these “useless” majors that deserves to be cleansed of its bad reputation, its psychology, or at least not be put in the same bowl as all the majors with a “studies” in the title. Psych has some real world applications (marketing?) which have proven useful. I think its negative reputation stems from the idiots who want an easy major as opposed to those of us who actually enjoy the subject. I’m not disagreeing with you, I just don’t think it deserves to be put in the same league as media studies.</p>
<p>^^ regarding the second quote, thank you :)</p>
<p>just take bio of stress, or hormones and behavior.</p>
<p>Yeah all the majors with “studies” in the title are pretty useless and absurdly easy.</p>
<p>As for the argument that someone good at math or science can’t succeed in a humanities or social science class . . . . if you’re smart, you’re smart in all your classes. The local science magnet always rapes the local humanities magnet. Humanities and social science majors don’t do well in math/science because they’re not that smart.</p>
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<p>They like to consider their smarts as “emotional intellegence”. Go ask a psyche major to explain it since i think that nonsense is non scientific rubbish. It was co opted by the business community for conformity purposes.</p>
<p>The psyche brainwashers, i mean marketers should also know edward bernays, godfather of pr and friend of gobbels. He admitted and thought pr as a term didnt sound as scary to the american public as propaganda or social engineering.</p>
<p>They should bring back home economics and have a bake sale to support their x studies major. That or put them under sociology: concentration in…</p>