<p>How good is UCLA's history major comapred to Cal's? Also, what could a history major offer be in career options?</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>minus the cal part</p>
<p>One of the best and largest history departments in the nation. i dont know about cals, but i'd have to say ours is probably better, it's one of ucla's strong points. </p>
<p>career options? anything and nothing. don't be limited to teacher or academia. you can be a lawyer (if you go to law), media, consulting, business, journalism, the list goes on.</p>
<p>its an incredibly flexible major, with a huge variety of classes to choose from. basically its like the best major ever because you pretty much get to pick and choose whatever you want to take and it has very few requirements.
for example, while a lot of my friends are stuck taking neverending tracks of calculus, chemistry, physics, biology, etc., i get to take a class on the Norman Conquest followed by a class on the Soviet Union. its an incredibly ecclectic major.</p>
<p>in terms of career options, a history major cannot give you job assurance like a major such as engineering or say nursing can. however like namaste said, the major doesn't limit you at all. basically, once you graduate you can do what ever you want. </p>
<p>examples:
all listed in above post
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archeology
working with museums and libraries
my uncle was a history major and now he is an excecutive at Bank of America</p>
<p>The History major here is pretty good--like everything else, you either get the really awesome and informative professors, or you get the ones that just want to write their books and couldn't care less about undergrads. I'm a history major right now, and though I couldn't tell you exactly what I'm going to do, the two things I want to do are either public service or law. I used to want to be a history prof, but like someone else said, I love the eclectic variety of the major, and I don't think I could spend the rest of my life specializing in one certain type of history and region--I like everything too much.</p>
<p>It's awesome</p>
<p>How big are the upper division classes? Are there a lot of discussions? I'm coming in this fall as a transfer.</p>
<p>no discussions for upper divisions. the upper div classes range anywhere 50-400, though the typical is 150-200. you also get to take at least one small seminar of 15-20.</p>
<p>^^^ Really? All my upper divs have been 60-100....usually around 100 but only 50/60 people or so show up for each class until the final.</p>
<p>i'm in three upper divs right now and they range from 160 to 250. all depends</p>
<p>If you're an incoming freshman and you've taken AP World History, I don't recommend taking History 20,21,or 22 as pre-reqs (go with western civ instead). I got 5s on World History AP test, but it doesn't count here for class requirements, so i basically had to go through two quarters of a high school class again. Kind of annoying</p>
<p>Good enough, obviously.</p>
<p>CAL got the best Hist department in the nation. UCLA is good, but no where close.</p>
<p>nowhere close? well, how close is it then? :rolleyes: did you decide what units you should use? nowhere close well ain't that something! looks like i made a dumb decision... going to ucla. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>andagreg: what do you know? you dont even go here yet. ucla has the largest history department and some of the most distinguished professors nationally</p>
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<p>I believe both Yale and Princeton have better history departments</p>
<p>Ok, it seems like my comment distrubed several people.</p>
<p>True, I dont even go to UCLA (nor UCB) yet, so I do not know about the dept, but the same goes to all who had not attended both UCLA and UCB. </p>
<p>Where I was coming from was impression after talking to several history majors going to cornell, Berkeley, and UCLA, as well as looking at ranking datas for department of grad schools such as U.S. News. </p>
<p>I know such rankings could be be biased to a degree, and those who go to UCLA has every reason to be proud of themselves;</p>
<p>But I still dont think what I meant to say (that UCB hist dept is more recognized than that of UCLA) was too unreasonable, though the way I worded it was kinda silly I should admit.</p>
<p>To LAx Attack: You could say thay. To me, UCB, Priceton and Yale are of the same level. </p>
<p>Search</a> - History - Best Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report</p>
<p>1 Yale University New Haven, CT Score 4.9<br>
2 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Score 4.8<br>
2 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, Score 4.8
4 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Score 4.7 </p>
<p>...</p>
<p>9 University of California--Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Score 4.5</p>
<p>Honest to God - it's going to mean little to nothing about their PhD programs in regards to the education you'll receive here... in the grand scheme of things. Just because you're not taught by an esoteric Rhodes scholar doesn't mean you'll do tragically worse. Baby Rudin cries when the rankings drop from 1 to 9. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>why would you major in history period? history majors everywhere deserve as much respect as art majors. i personally know more history from the founding of the roman empire to the fall of the ottoman empire than most history majors.</p>
<p>if you wanna be a man, major in econ</p>