<p>I'm mostly referring to humanities & social sciences</p>
<p>Generally, is it feasible? Lets pretend I'm doing Comparative Literature right now and I suddenly decided I was interesting in earning my PhD in economics or political science. Is it generally doable? You have to prove to admissions that you're serious - I'm just afraid I won't be able to change majors so swiftly at UCLA since it's so difficult to get political science or economics classes or some other disciplines... and I need to graduate on time! </p>
<p>If you're talking about changing majors swiftly I'm guessing it doesn't look too positive. Graduate programs in a lot of areas will accept you even without a major, but you are expected to have a solid background in the area. So, if for example you are going into your last semester you'd not likely get enough courses. If you had an entire year and this semester to focus on nothing but the new area of interest then I think you'd be much closer to accomplishing a solid background. But I assume you still need to finish requirements for comparative literature anyway?</p>
<p>Just curious why you were okay with comparative literature, but have suddenly jumped ship and are terrified to continue with it.</p>
<p>It's doable (and in the humanities, common), but poli sci and econ will want background, and probably also a specialty within the field. You might want to take a year or two off to take classes as an non-degree student and explore the subjects.</p>
<p>Preparing for the worst case scenario and paranoid that I'm taking the "wrong" path in that I find something else more interesting but could not access it since I'm under a time constraint to get out of the university or worried that I'll find something tangential in my current studies that by the time I figured it out, will find that I should've pursued something more relevant. I have a wide range of interests and I'm unsure what I'm most passionate about. Just as an example, it's fairly difficult to get into political science or economics courses since they're so popular at UCLA. I don't have that great of class standing either in terms of units to be able to enroll without issues. Poli Sci and Econ were just used as hypotheticals in case I wanted to jump from Humanities to Social Sciences or the opposite. Not interested in the natural sciences or mathematics or engineering. </p>
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<p>Econ is heavily mathematical. You'd have to take some upper division math classes to have a shot at getting into a PhD program in econ, so that they can see you are able to handle the math you need. If you really are interested in econ but can't get into those classes at this point, then take some math classes that you can get into. Look on the econ dept website to see what math they require of their majors, or look at the graduate admissions site of an econ department and see the minimum math prep that they expect to see from applicants.</p>