<p>Aside from a communications major, what major requires more discussion?</p>
<p>Do you mean classroom discussion? If so then I would add political science and maybe sociology to your list.</p>
<p>Political Science. Keep in mind, while this major usually requires active participation in discussions it also requires a lot of reading, writing, and research.</p>
<p>Philosophy as well.</p>
<p>Almost any humanity, I would think. English, Comp. Lit, Philosophy, History, etc.</p>
<p>Oral Interp/ French, German, etc…/Psychology…really psychology 
Theater/</p>
<p>Polisci is actually mostly lectures.</p>
<p>Until you get to the advanced undergrad law type classes where they employ the socratic method.</p>
<p>^Well, I can tell you that the political science program that my son will be finishing up with in one week (graduates next week) required an enormous amount of research, writing, and discussion as well as individual presentations by the students. In addition, for political science students with grad school in their future, the student really needs to do some individual research projects outside of class and attempt to get at least one of their political science research manuscripts published.</p>
<p>"polisci is actually mostly lectures.</p>
<p>Until you get to the advanced undergrad law type classes where they employ the socratic method. "</p>
<p>In my political science program almost every lecture is accompanied by a twice weekly small group discussion. And, of course, the typical enormous amount of reading, writing, and research.</p>
<p>Great Books Program, and Integral Program
Check out St. John’s Annapolis and Santa Fe, and St. Mary’s of California</p>
<p>No lectures. Seminars with all students participating.
No exams. Papers only.</p>
<p>about how much reading and writing is required for a typical week for pol. sci majors?</p>
<p>Well, typical for the classes I have taken in my poli sci program is maybe 50 pages of reading per class session so between 50 and 100 pages per week-- I had a class that was twice that my first semester and had to ask myself if I really wanted to do this but thankfully 30-50 per lesson seems to be more the norm… lol. As for writing, most of my classes only have one or two big papers a semester (think anywhere from 8 to 20 pages depending on the class), but I have taken classes where we had a 5-7 page paper due every other week. All schools will be different, of course. In the interest of full disclosure this is a highly ranked program I am taking.</p>
<p>If you are a social science person it’s really not bad-- though it is challenging for me to read and write that much and not get burnt out, I’d MUCH prefer that to doing problem sets or something. It’s a lot of work but I guess it’s just a matter of what methods of study you are more inclined to participate in.</p>
<p>what’s a social science person?</p>
<p>Join the debate team.</p>
<p>social science person: someone majoring in psychology, anthropology, sociology, or other majors that focus on understanding individuals, groups and/or society more broadly.</p>
<p>john2 - what exactly is it that you are trying to figure out? Are you trying to avoid majors with a ton of reading & writing?</p>