<p>I'm an undeclared freshman and thinking of trying out mass comm, but people usually think mass comm's a fluff major...is this right?
I heard that some mass comm professors make the class hard (i.e. Mass comm 10) so that MC majors can get more credibility..
so how is mass comm as a major?
i was thinking about history as a major, but i don't know yet..
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! i'm so lost...</p>
<p>Yes, mass comm, anything with the word "study" attached,and psychology are thought of as "fluff" majors.</p>
<p>People usually do consider it a fluff major, but that's really their problem. Some people think English or philosophy is fluff, but hey, if they were to jump into the classes here, many would get their butts kicked. Some people just have to much majorist prejudice in their heads. I'd say, if the classes interest you, take em. For mass com, you have to take classes in other departments as a sort of concentrations. I'm sure some are supposed to be more difficult, some easier. History is also strong here, and many of the seminars for freshman and (I think) sophomores are basically full course classes that are smaller (as opposed to most of the seminars, which are introductions to areas and not usually four units). You have to do a thesis to graduate as a history major.</p>
<p>People think of psych as fluff major, but one must jump through a lot of hoops to be allowed to major in psych. A lot of people think of American Studies as a fluff major, but so what? If you find it interesting, you can make it hard for yourself. You can write a senior thesis, graduate with honors, work with professors for research and guided study. It's what you make of it. Don't let the majorist students , many seeming to be within engeering/science/math and the the elitist ones within the humanities/social sciences keep you down.</p>