<p>I DON'T want to take a sciene major... i want a non sci but am having trouble choosing what major at ucla..</p>
<p>I mean, i'm just thinking logically.. if i do fail out of medical, I want a back up.. so any ideas on a non sci major that will get me a career?</p>
<p>I looked up biz econ/econ.. and they seem to require a LOT of extra units.</p>
<p>Just do something you like. Something you’re passionate about.. Plan for change if you’re about planning - know that you’re going to succumb to the whims of a college-aged kid. Take classes that matter to you - honors classes that interest to you, random classes that don’t count just because you can. You’re going to make your own college experience, so you might as well start but getting what you want.</p>
<p>Well, first of all, tell us what you like and what you are good at.</p>
<p>you want to do premed with a non premed major? try engineering! lol maybe psych? or anthro BS?</p>
<p>umm.. psych sounds way too overrated (no offense psych majors) =)
IF i do economics, does that require a lot more classes? I dunno.. judging from the threads about econ, it doesn’t look too fun,</p>
<p>I’m interested in any non sci major.. hah</p>
<p>i know ppl always say that you should pick a major that you’re passionate about, but honestly, you need to be practical too, right? you have to pick something will will allow you to have a career too. at least thats what i think and what i am acting upon</p>
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<p>no you don’t, actually. few majors are designed with the expectation that you work in that field - only art (certain ones, anyway) & architecture, engineering, and nursing come to mind right now. journalism too, maybe? liberal arts majors are a perfect example; very few english majors actually do something related. it’s the work and latent learning to get a degree that matters most.</p>
<p>psych might be “overrated,” but at least it’s useful. econ is just boring. business is useless, other than the fact that you have a degree…</p>
<p>I agree with toxic. Add marine biology to that list. </p>
<p>First, speaking of engineering, I find that engineering in the industry doesn’t require total retaining of the theory (don’t underestimate that statement, you still need to work hard and have a solid understanding of what you study).</p>
<p>Second, getting a B.S is really B.S. You don’t learn much beyond the basics of your concentration, although some courses in the curriculum are extremely difficult. When doing analysis, only a solid understanding of what you learned is important.</p>
<p>In the industry, I believe most places will train you to perform the tasks they want you to do, as an entry level hire. Every company will have their own way to train people to meet their worklists, at their own speeds. The role is to get the job done according to the way you have been taught at training. So therefore, you just learn on the job .. most people already know this .. what you learned in undergrad is really not too important anymore – only attaining the degree was important.</p>
<p>The only caveat to my statement is if you do R&D. That, you will need to retain lots of theory.</p>
<p>When you move up the hierarchy of the organization chart, the theory becomes less and less important, as administration and organizational leadership becomes more important. </p>
<p>That was a bit off topic .. but in response .. just keep in mind that your major and your career might not (likely not) align with what you studied in college. </p>
<p>If you have no clue where to start, do what other people have been posting – pick something you are passionate about – something you will have interest in taking courses about. Your career won’t have to exactly fall under what major you choose .. as long as your dream isn’t too far from what you declare.</p>
<p>Well you could double-major…which is what I’m doing.
I’m doing an English + Business Econ double-major. So I’ll be doing both a subject I’m passionate about, and one that gives me hopefully a more marketable degree. (no prizes for guessing which class fulfils which role)
Of course the disadvantage would be you’d have a jam-packed schedule all the time, but if you truly are passionate about a certain field, I find that the classes in them aren’t really all that taxing. Plus, it gives a mix of Essay-based classes and Exam-based classes, so the crunch times are different anyway without having too much of an effect on each other.</p>
<p>So if you’re planning a pre-med but want to take something like biz-econ as a career backup, that might be a road to look into.
Do a Life-science or Psych and add Econ to it.</p>
<p>(The other suggestion I’d give is the accounting minor. You could get a CPA or go into accounting without as many credits as a whole major)</p>
<p>do you need to decide now? most people take a variety of classes until they find something they like and want to pursue as a major</p>
<p>Well if you think you might wanna double-major then you need to decide early on, since that gives you a whole lot less wriggle room for wavering.
Like I didn’t really plan my degree out (only doing econ 1 during spring quarter freshman year, that’s only 2 quarters of feeling time) and I’m looking at like 4 classes a quarter for the rest of my time here, including a spring quarter this year with Econ 101, Management 1b, Japanese 3 and an Econ Upper Div all together jsut to get the requirements done by junior year</p>
<p>same here…im pre-health but really hard to choose major…</p>
<p>psych is not overrated. depends what you are looking for.</p>
<p>that is all ;)</p>
<p>My suggestion:</p>
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<li><p>Print out the list of majors and begin eliminating ones you don’t like. </p></li>
<li><p>Check out the reqs on ones you like and eliminate based off of things you know you hate. (Like if you hate math get rid of any classes the require you to take stats).</p></li>
<li><p>By the time you get to the bottom of the alphabet realize that of the hundred plus majors there are no longer any left except women studies and WAC.</p></li>
<li><p>Realize you can’t dance.</p></li>
<li><p>Become a women studies major.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>That was def how women studies became my back up for if I didn’t get into film. :)</p>
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<p>choose something your passionate about. because if you’re truly passionate about it, you’ll be able to develop a career that incorporates your passion. really.</p>
<p>and of course for the truly career-concious there’s always</p>
<p>Humanities major -> Law School
Social Science major -> mba
Science Major -> med school</p>
<p>So as long as u keep ur gpa up, which is easier in a major ur passionate about, roads still stay open.</p>
<p>the linguistics department at ucla offers many concentrations in other fields
and a linguistics major is a humanities major that really stresses logic and scientific reasoning, it is a science after all</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Majors in Linguistics](<a href=“http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/programs/majors.htm]Undergraduate”>http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/programs/majors.htm)</p>