<p>Linguistics. Many people believe that linguistics majors have to learn a lot of languages, when in reality it’s quite a sciency major that requires a great deal of analysis of the logical structures (grammar, syntax, etc.) of language, and has nothing to do with actually learning foreign languages. I’m a prospective linguistics major, and while I also happen to be a polyglot, having command of multiple languages is certainly not a prerequisite to be successful.</p>
<p>definitely anthropology</p>
<p>Underwater Basket Weaving.</p>
<p>Economics: Physics for people who can’t do labs XD.</p>
<p>Communications. Depending on the school, it can cover everything from communication disorders to film production so people usually have no real idea what you mean when you say you’re that major. Luckily I’m at a school now where my concentration isn’t considered a ‘communications’ major so I don’t have to go through all that anymore :)</p>
<p>^ More than that people think it’s about fixing computers; it’s quite funny.</p>
<p>^ Lol! I actually have seen some computer-related concentrations in Communications programs, like web design or some internet management related stuff. Who knows though, like I said it’s different at every school!</p>
<p>economics, linguistics, communications, and geography.</p>
<p>economics: not just about money
linguistics: just because you are a linguistics major, doesn’t mean you can speak a zillion languages.
communications: very vague title, means completely different things to different schools. Can be journalism focused, can be technology focused, can be disorders focused.<br>
geography: not just about where countries are located in the world and its weather. Covers a ton of topics, including demography, politics, economics, environment etc.</p>
<p>People tend not to know what goes on in majors that they aren’t in.</p>
<p>^ Very good point.</p>
<p>Yes but some majors are so completely misunderstood that you could spend five minutes reciting from a textbook, ask people to guess what major it corresponds to, and many would blank.</p>
<p>I’ll jump on the econ bandwagon. I tell people I’m an econ major and they just chuckle and say “supply and demand, that’s all you go to know,” and I usually just laugh along and drop it. But, I really want to be like “yeah, that’s all you have to know for the first week in your first intro class to micro…” and then go into detail about the much more complicated things you do. It may not be engineering, or astrophysics or anything like that. But, it isn’t just supply and demand and it can be a bit more tricky than people think. It also has a lot wider range of material than people think, crossing over into many other academic fields.</p>
<p>If you don’t understand what Hayek was trying to say about knowledge, decisions, prices, and spontaneous order, you don’t understand econ! Not in my book ya don’t!</p>
<p>Yeah you’re the expert.</p>
<p>What’s the most understood major then? Language majors?</p>
<p>English cause we all know it’s ******** harharhar</p>
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<p>Government. For some reason, every year 2 b’zillion students all major in it thinking they’re going to break into politics - or employment in general. 1.99 b’zillion of them definitely misunderstood.</p>
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<p>Ultimately, economics is almost all about money. Fiscal policies, monetary policies, supply, demand, international trade, inflation, business cycles, capital productivity, labor productivity etc. The only topic that I can think of that is not DIRECTLY related to money is unemployment; then again, arguments to the contrary can be made.</p>
<p>Economics major.</p>
<p>@Lobzz: those are the topics that economics deal with but ultimately economics is not about money. It’s the study of human behaviour from a perspective based on incentives, etc.</p>