<p>Is anyone here a linguistics major (current, please not anyone who's planning to be one...I'm in that position)? Is there any information you can provide about it? Workload? Are the classes interesting? Is is generally an unpopular major? What are you planning to do with it after you graduate (this is what I'm stuck on)? Do people consider it to be an easy major?</p>
<p>I’m planning on double majoring in it. But I haven’t taken classes on it yet since I’m only a community college student and they don’t offer linguistics courses at my CC.</p>
<p>I have a feeling that actual Linguistics majors are a lot less common than intended Linguistics majors. that said, I’m in a similar situation: I’m a CS major but I’m currently considering double-majoring in Linguistics as I’m taking a lot of it as electives anyway. In my case, the idea is that I can use Linguistics to complement work in AI/human-machine interaction type areas.</p>
<p>I, personally, am not a linguistics major, so as far as the technicalities and all that stuff go, I’m not sure. But I have a friend who goes to Yale and was majoring in math (he LOVED, and was amazing at math) and after his first year dropped math to take up a linguistics major. He absolutely loves it and finds it very interesting. He talks about it often; though not about the course load and future prospects, so I can’t help you there. All I know is he had a major which he enjoyed, excelled at, and had plenty of opportunities and didn’t hesitate to switch over once he had experienced linguistics and enjoys it very much. If it interests you, do some googling for job opportunities for linguistic majors and see if any of those seem worth pursuing in your mind.</p>
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