<p>Certainly Case has its strengths in math and science, but can anyone give information about its English and History departments?</p>
<p>Not one reply. Does this say something about the strength of the dept?</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a history major at CWRU. The history department is great in my opinion, although I’ve never taken history classes at other schools to compare. What kind of information are you looking for?</p>
<p>I don’t know very much about the English department.</p>
<p>About how many people are in the History dept? Are your classes large? Do you ever feel a lesser part of the school because you are not in math or science? Do the math and science people mix socially with you? What do some of the graduates do or where do they go from CWRU? Are your professors the same that the math and science people take their humanities classes from? What can you tell me about the History Dept?</p>
<p>There are 88 majors and minors combined. Classes can be as large as 40-70 or so for the required courses that many non-majors take (Intro to Modern World History and Intro to US History), but the average history class size is 10-20 students. I have been in one class that had 3 students and one that had 5. A cool part of being a history major is that there aren’t too many required credits to get a history degree (you only have to take 10 classes minimum), so it’s really easy to double major, or if you don’t want to double major, to take tons of classes outside of the department, in whatever area you want.</p>
<p>I don’t feel a lesser part of the school, (that might be because I’m also a computer science major, but I only recently picked up that major), but you will have some people occasionally who are surprised that you are a history major (I think this is partly because they wish that they were able to be one too–or at least that they were able to do something that isn’t essentially a pre-professional program.) There are also very occasionally people who like to rag on humanities majors (they usually only do this when they don’t think humanities majors are around). I like to ignore these people, but they’re not a majority or anything. Most normal, nice people think humanities majors are cool and wish they could be one themselves.</p>
<p>All history classes at Case are open to everybody, with very few prerequisites, but that doesn’t mean they are dumbed down. Everybody who enrolls in a class is expected to meet the same high standard. </p>
<p>Most of my friends are in the engineering department, including my girlfriend, although I also have friends who are business majors, as well as other humanities and social science majors. Needless to say, everyone mixes. But if you want, I’m sure you could find most of your friends among other humanities majors, who wouldn’t be talking about how much they hate their professors or how hard their classes are all the time (a common occurrence among engineers).</p>
<p>We have a good number of students go off to law school, and probably about 2-3 students per class go to grad school in history. Other people go to other professional schools, find jobs in whatever their second major was, if they had one, go into education, or find jobs in many other areas. Getting a history major at Case is like attending a small liberal arts college, but with additional opportunities.</p>
<p>As a side note, the part of campus where many of the humanities classes are held, “Mather Quad”, is much prettier than the “Case Quad” where science and engineering classes are held (as well as additional humanities classes).</p>
<p>If you have any other questions, just email me.</p>