<p>anyone on here one? i know it varies at each college (please dont answer saying it varies on college/person), but would you say its demanding and/or interesting in general... easier than science majors?</p>
<p>I'm just a history minor, but I think the introductory history classes are usually pretty easy. I just took one with about 50-75 pages of reading per lecture, one midterm, one final, and a paper (where he gives you the topics and sources). I think upper level history classes have more reading and more papers. In comparison to math/science majors...well...I don't know. I would say you'll spend more time reading and doing work than in a math/science, but in math/science, you'd probably spend more time studying. I could be totally wrong here though. A problem set won't take as long as 75 pages of reading and a paper, but you don't need to study before you read whereas you might need to study before doing the problems.</p>
<p>Demanding not really - interesting yes - easier than science majors yes. Personally i think its one of the easier majors.</p>
<p>well my high school AP history courses usually require about 40-50 pages reading per class, but i rarely do that and get it away with it by reading condensed review guides on topics, and ttaking good notes. in college if you dont read are you screwed? i mean, essentially, cant you read summarized guides to history and do well?</p>
<p>also... anyone here a POLITICAL SCIENCE/ ECONOMICS Major; i was cuirious if anyone likes either and why</p>
<p>I'm a history double major and it is a lot of reading. A LOT of it. I do a lot of reading what I need to know and then crossreferencing with other sources that I have. Even something like wikipedia is great for finding out exactly what that guy did that was mentioned just once in the entire book but somehow retains a large amount of importance. Otherwise, yeah one midterm, one final, and usually a final paper.
I love history so I think it is interesting, the flip side is what my friends believe. It is challenging only if you fall behind on the reading.</p>
<p>but the questoion is can you get away with not reading, by taking good notes and using condensed review guides etc</p>
<p>I'm actually a politics/history double major - a ton of reading when those two are combined.</p>
<p>Here, here! Definitely a lot of reading- depends on the professor, really.</p>
<p>In some ways, it is easier than science/math because you're not spending forever on the exams and have to do so much thinking because once you get started on the essay, you know what you want to say.</p>
<p>Most history classes have a mid-term, a final, and a paper or two (depending on how many pages the professor ultimately want their students to write by the end). There's usually a lot of books- though people complain how expensive science books are... please, if your professor assigns 10 books, that's just equal amount of money as a science textbook unless some of the books are $20... yikes. Gets expensive very fast! But they're so well worth keeping- you can keep them on your bookshelf at home and makes an interesting title reading for your guests :)</p>
<p>I can't really say to use condensed review guides- I never use them because of the way that my professors approach the material. For example, I'm studying WWII right now. She isn't focused on the military strategies in depth but more on the economic, social, political, racial, and psychological mpact, not your typical straight on facts.</p>
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<p>mmhmm. i took a history class. i have classics like these on my bookshelf now: </p>
<p>'architectures of time, toward a theory of the event in modernist culture'
'prague territories, national conflict and cultural innovation in franz kafkas fin de siecle'
'mallarme's children, symbolism and the renewal of experience'
'weimar intellectuals and the threat of modernity'
'sovereignties in question: the poetics of paul celan'
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'culture and catastrophe, german and jewish confrontations with national socialism and other crises'</p>
<p>the real question, of course, is where my professor actually FOUND these books.</p>
<p>Im a history major, and of the two history classes Ive taken so far have been pretty easy. But they also been GE classes.</p>
<p>The awesome thing for me is that it seems like about 3/4s of my GE is met by history classes that also count for my major. Does this work for anyone else?</p>
<p>I've had some really challenging history courses. Also, one thing to think about is often history majors have to write a thesis or other long paper/project to graduate. I'm working on mine right now and it has consumed my life this year.</p>