<p>I was wanting insight on history, government, russian literature, and near eastern studies. I am sure the latter two are not NEAR as popular as the first two but any info is appreciated.</p>
<p>Please y’all! :)</p>
<p>history department
[Cornell</a> University Department of History](<a href=“http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/History/]Cornell”>http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/History/)
government department
[Department</a> of Government at Cornell University | Ithaca, NY](<a href=“http://government.arts.cornell.edu/]Department”>http://government.arts.cornell.edu/)
russian literature
[C</a>. U. College of A & S Dept. of Russian Literature](<a href=“http://www.arts.cornell.edu/russian/index.html]C”>http://www.arts.cornell.edu/russian/index.html)
near eastern studies
[Department</a> of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University](<a href=“http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/]Department”>http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/)</p>
<p>Thanks for the links, but I have already visited those sites. lol I was hoping for something more like personal commentary: experiences, different classes, grading, like or dislike, and just testimony from actual students. I can read what the school has to say about the major.</p>
<p>I highly doubt you will find anyone in Russian Literature or Near Eastern studies on CC. Even the history and gov majors are few and far between on here.</p>
<p>I am an econ/government major. I have no idea what insight you are looking for though. I have several friends who are doing NES, which is a great double major with government if you are interested in the Middle East and Arabic or Hebrew language programs. NES seems to be popular for those who are interested in foreign policy, given relevance of the Middle East in foreign affairs. And some NES and Govt classes are cross-listed. I think Hist/Govt is a common double major as well since some of the courses are cross-listed. If you are really comparing the two, just go to the departments’ websites and compare course descriptions to see which you find more interesting.</p>
<p>You might also want to look into the International Relations minor. Seems to me something you might want to consider simply because you’ve listed two departments (Russian and NES) which involve foreign disciplines.</p>
<p>I would generally say the government major is pretty easy. That’s not to say classes are guaranteed A’s, since that’s not true and you are compared against your peers. However, as long as you do the minimum assigned work, you really shouldn’t get below a B, which is certainly not true of for example science courses, where you can do just enough to finish all the assigned work, but can easily fail exams if you don’t quite get everything (in other disciplines, answers to questions can be much more blatantly “wrong”). This assessment is probably true of most social science courses though (except econ, where wrong answers definitely exist as well and getting C’s or D’s on exams isn’t unheard of).</p>
<p>There is a lot of reading to do in government, but if you are so inclined to ‘just get by’ you can definitely selectively read for most classes so you do just enough to write your papers. Don’t necessarily knock that idea either since once you get to Cornell, you may find your priorities have shifted from academics to more extra-curricular activities. </p>
<p>I have found all my professors in the gov’t department (except 1) to be excellent/engaging lecturers. </p>
<p>Send me a PM if you are so inclined about more specific questions about the government major or specific classes.</p>
<p>This is kind off topic, and I don’t want to steal this topic, but can you minor in a near eastern studies language along with getting a major in engineering?</p>
<p>Bump. Sorry, would like this answered</p>
<p>depends on what school you’re in. you’d have to call and ask the engineering school. but probably, yes.</p>
<p>a minor is just a certain number of courses in a given area…</p>
<p>as an ENGR you have a certain number of liberal arts requirements but not sure all of the classes required for the minor will meet those liberal arts requirements. </p>
<p>you will probably have to take extra classes on top of your ENGR load.</p>
<p>How about Arabic specifically, because I can’t find that on the minors list =/?</p>
<p>There is no minor, but there are only 3 arabic language classes in the sequence.</p>
<p>NES 1201: Elementary Arabic
NES 1203: Intermediate Arabic
NES 3201: Advanced Intermediate Arabic</p>
<p>There is also NES 2203: Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic</p>
<p>Where’d you find this Chendrix?</p>
<p>[Arabic</a> Program - Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell](<a href=“http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/academic/languages/arabic/program/index.html]Arabic”>http://www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/academic/languages/arabic/program/index.html)</p>
<p>which I got from googling “Cornell Arabic”:</p>