<p>I have been accepted to Penn (CAS). I have been thinking about my major.</p>
<p>Can anyone offer me any info regarding political science, which I am mostly focusing on, or maybe even history? Difficulty? Amount of reading? Etc.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Don’t burden yourself with so much. Go and explore. Try things out. You don’t have to decide for about another 2 years.</p>
<p>^ I always hated answers like that my freshman year. </p>
<p>Difficulty? Depends on what you mean. Harder than hard sciences or engineering? No. Harder than communications or international relations? Yes. </p>
<p>Amount of reading? An incredible amount, but I guess you wouldn’t be interested in it if you didn’t know that. As with any of the social sciences, they are a lot more reading intensive. Don’t be surprised when many books are assigned for you to read completely for a given class in a semester. Just a gauge for you to measure with: Intro to Sociology assigns about 4 or 5 books to read in their entirety, with about two journal articles (10-20 pages) per week. And remember, that’s Sociology! Gonna be worse for PolySci and History.</p>
<p>@notpennstate - Could you elaborate more on International Relations? Is it known to be an easier major? In your opinion, it is easier than PoliSci?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the info in advance!</p>
<p>Yeah in my experience, I’ve found it’s considered to be an easier major (haven’t taken an IR class, so can’t give you a better answer than that). Also, I know a few IR majors and I literally just see them sit at home and watch movies while everyone else studies lol.</p>