<p>art history or communicatoion</p>
<p>Engrish. Fo sho.</p>
<p>It depends on the school and the individual. There is no “easiest major”, nor any “hardest major” for everyone. Savants will find physics a breeze and gender studies a nightmare.</p>
<p>There is no one easiest major. There’s multiple easy majors. Education, Journalism, Sociology, Math, Recreation, and Social Work are just a few. Just need repetition patience or social skills and you’re set.</p>
<p>What about Food and Drink and Marine Studies (A Level subjects)? They can’t seriously be difficult, can they (judging from their names)? I don’t think many places offer them simply because they’re so easy.</p>
<p>A friend of mine will be attending Appalachian State University (North Carolina) and will be majoring in Parks & Recreation. If that’s not the most hilarious/ridiculously easy major ever, I will be quite astonished.</p>
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<p>One of these is not like the others.</p>
<p>yeah seriously, math being an easy major? I’m in mechanical engineering, a notoriously hard major and I consider upper level math harder than engineering. 3rd year math is ***ing intense… 4th year math is supposed to be even worse. People don’t understand how complicated math can get because their only frame of reference is primary school and intro calc. Once you get into abstract math it has nothing to do with repetition.</p>
<p>I’m a Kinesiology major and my option is Sport & Rec Management–the SRM classes are a cakewalk. The other Kinesiology ones can be tough–maybe not organic chem hard, but definitely not easy. Biomechanics, Motor Control, Exercise Physiology are challenging courses, at least at my school. Maybe at another school they’d be easy but we have a very strong Kines dept with a history of strong placement in PT, OT, optometry, med, and chiro schools and Athletic Training grad school programs for our students.</p>
<p>But last I checked, I didn’t go to college to take the hardest major possible–I went to study something that interested me and would lead me into a career.</p>
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<p>Elementary Education, Exercise and Sports Science, Athletic Training, Health and Fitness Management, Recreational Administration, Social Work, Healthcare Administration, Family and Consumer Science, Fashion Merchandising and Dance majors are all B.S. Out of those, I think the top two easiest would be Recreational Administration and Fashion Merchandising.</p>
<p>Hardest are probably in the engineering/science departments, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Architectural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Biochemistry</p>
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<p>***? When a major part of food science is about organic and biochemistry?</p>
<p>If you think food science is easy, then off the top of your head, then it shouldn’t be hard to recall some basic facts from Food Chemistry 101:</p>
<p>What is the principal difference between Maillard reactions and caramelisation?
Which functional group in bread sugar, and of what type of sugar, reacts with bread proteins during toasting?
In caramelisation, does dehydration come before or after enolisation?
Give the equilibrium constant for the principal aldose-ketose conversion when standard white bread is being toasted at 150 degrees C at standard pressure in dry air.
Give the reaction constant for the principal aldose-ketose conversion when standard white bread is being toasted at 150 degrees C at standard pressure in dry air.
Describe the change in the enolisation process when the temperature is raised from 150 to 160 C.
What pH level is required for D-fructose to yield maltol as one of its products during caramelisation? How would you achieve this pH change?</p>
<p>You will be graded out of 10 points. If you think food science is easy, it should be a piece of cake to answer these questions. Please reply promptly. Then, you can be tested on alcohols.</p>
<p>art and communications? drama maybe</p>
<p>why would you post those questions up?
lol anybody can do that with any major. quit taking offense to it if it is or is a part of your major. give me a “food chemistry 101” book and I could give you those answers, and if I gave you a calculus book you could answer some of my questions. see the difference? the way to judge this would be what main book from each major would be the toughest to read and answer a series of questions on. ex) math major-read a calculus book, take a test. Econ major-read a micro economics book and take a test.</p>
<p>of course it’s a bit more complicated than that, but journalism has got to be the easiest thing ever</p>
<p>My point was that food science and organic chemistry are intricately related fields. I have no idea why a person would say food science is easy without saying organic chem is easy.</p>
<p>I don’t think any major is “easy.” It depends on personal preference.</p>
<p>Some people may think English or Sociology is easy. I hate having my writing picked apart by a subjective grammar Nazi and think the latter field is just mind-numbingly boring; therefore, they would both be hard majors for me, I would definitely struggle.</p>
<p>However, I don’t think it’s fair to mark a major unless you’ve taken a substantial amount of classes (up to upper-level) in the major. It may seem “easier” to an outsider than it actually is.</p>
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I don’t understand the point of a journalism major - what do they teach you, how to write an article? how to do research? how to conduct an interview? Most students learn to do research by being in any academic major, and writing an article doesn’t require years of classes - why not work for the school paper, or get an internship/job at a paper instead?</p>
<p>I think it’s better to major or double-major in what you’re interested in writing about. At my college, if you want to do Journalism, you’re required to double major - lots of people do Journalism and Politics, Journalism and Econ, Journalism and Media Studies, etc. But I don’t understand a major that’s just journalism. I notice when I read NewsWeek or the NYT that usually the authors of the articles have a Bachlors or Masters in an actual academic subject. The journalists writing about Politics have Pol Sci degrees, not Journalism degrees. Just something i’ve noticed.</p>
<p>Journalism courses primarily focus on grammar and style, as well as various writing techniques. It’s unlikely that any newspaper or magazine would hire someone who was not familiar with the very basic journalistic style standards.
Literary journalism, in my opinion, is a bit of an art form. Very few people can pull it off. </p>
<p>That said, after the first few courses, journalism classes do begin to repeat themselves and just restate what’s been taught in the prior year. There’s only so many ways you can write about little Johnny poking himself in the eye with a spatula.</p>
<p>addition…what if?</p>
<p>that’s the thing about Journalism, I imagine a few classes in it would be useful for a prospective journalist, but to major in it alone? I don’t get it. I know that NYU and several colleges don’t allow a Journalism major by itself. </p>
<p>When I said work/intern a paper, I didn’t mean like the Times or anything - I know in my hometown, you don’t need to be qualified to write for the paper. There are hundreds of thousands of towns across America where the paper is run by a volunteer staff of writers. At NYU, many students write for the Greenwich Village paper, the Washington Square News. Or writing for a college newspaper is good as well obviously. I think with journalism you need good experience to be able to get a job after you graduate, as there’s so many journalism students and you don’t need a degree in it to be a journalist. I’m guessing a Pol Sci BA with work experience in Journalism would have an easier time getting a job than a journalism BA with no experience.</p>