<p>Hey. I was wondering if anyone who's had experience with this major or has heard stories can tell me more about it. I find it really interesting-sounding, and I'm academically most interesting in the Law and Economics movement. </p>
<p>How would this major compare to one in Political Science with some econ classes and vice versa?</p>
<p>The University of Chicago is Ground Zero for Law and Economics, but I believe the LLS program is really focused elsewhere -- anthropology, sociology, narrative. Dennis Hutchinson, its director, has always been something of an outlier at Chicago's law school. I just looked at the LLS section of the course catalog -- you should, too -- and my sense is that LLS's intellectual home is at Wall and High Streets in New Haven, not 60th Street in Chicago. It is probably flexible enough to accommodate an interest in Law and Economics, but it certainly isn't designed to encourage that. </p>
<p>It is also remarkably free of anything that resembles traditional political science or philosophy of law. If you want to get a sense of how different programs with similar names can be, compare the LLS courses in the Chicago catalog with the Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought courses in the Amherst College catalog.</p>
<p>If you are really interested in Law and Economics, take as much micro and game theory (and associated math) as you can, and do at least a year of graduate work in economics. Then go to law school.</p>
<p>LLSO is part of the New College Division, which is interdisciplinary, or, in the case of describing it, flighty. My understanding of LLSO is that a lot of classes cross-list into the major, and ones that don't can still count towards the major.</p>
<p>I think you'll find the course offerings at Chicago to be fantastic-- though we don't have a lot of majors by name, we offer tons of classes that are applicable to almost any field of interest.</p>
<p>For example, when I was in high school, I wanted to be an American Studies or an Urban Studies major. Very few colleges offer either of these majors, and Chicago offers neither. However, Chicago offers LOTS of classes that could (or would) be a part of an American Studies or Urban Studies curriculum. What made me choose Chicago comfortably was that there's a major called Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, which is a self-designed major, so if I still wanted American Studies or Urban Studies, I could have done it on my own.</p>
<p>As it turns out, I'm an English major pursuing my interests in Americana and cities (and art history, and anthropology, and philosophy, etc. etc. etc.) on the side.</p>
<p>I thought about this major, but its basically only seems good if you're 100% sure on law scholl. A bachelors alone seems kind of unmarketable.</p>
<p>^^ Actually many LLSO majors don't go to law school. Theory over application :-)</p>
<p>And now is not the time in your life to think about marketing yourself, but rather the time to start thinking about what you might want to study (and then coming here, and realize what you really wanted to study was something else). You will get a job, no matter the major, and you will be good at it because Chicago will teach you how to read, write, and think. My parents both have undergraduate degrees in History from a prestigious school and their family friend has a PhD in history from another prestigious school. Both my mom and dad are very financially successful, doing things that have nothing to do with their undergrad degree. The PhD in history couldn't find a job in academia, but S&P hired him as an analyst straight out of grad school.</p>