UCLA Sociology major

<p>Hi, I am a newly admitted transfer student at UCLA.
I declared my major as sociology when I filled out the UC application last year.
After filling out the application and taking more sociology courses in spring semester,
I realized that I do not have a strong interest in the subject.
I made a hasty decision about choosing my major.
Instead, I realized that I have an interest in psyh.
The thing is I got admitted to UCLA as a soc major, and the school does not allow me to switch my major to psyh after transferring.
Anyways,I submitted my SIR in June 1st.
But, I keep thinking about staying at CC one more year and transferring out as a psyh major.
I am still not sure wehther my interest towards psyh is something serious or I just have a fantasy about psyh because it is the subject that I cannot major in at this point.
But, one thing for sure is I lost my interest in soc, and I feel quite uncomfortable trasferring to UCLA with this major.</p>

<p>Do I still need to give a chance to soc?
Some of the people I talked to said,
I should just get BA in soc and get MA in subject that I truly want to study.
Anyways,
I love UCLA, but I am not excited to go there with this major.</p>

<p>AHH ... </p>

<p>Please give me any advice.</p>

<p>Yes you can switch easily pretty much until the end of sophomore year. But only within Letters and Sciences, anything else will be difficult and have an application involved.</p>

<p>@tedders Transfer students must be admitted as Pre-Psychology majors to pursue the Psychology major at UCLA.</p>

<p>Well I may be a little biased but I don’t think that you should pass up the opportunity to go to UCLA.</p>

<p>If not, look at the required courses for the sociology major.

  1. Sociology 1
  2. Statistics (You can take Statistics 10, which is the same course you would take if you were a Psychology major)
  3. Sociology 20
  4. Sociology 101
  5. Sociology 102
  6. If you take Statistics 112 to fulfill your methods course, it will just be a continuation of Statistics 10 & has nothing to really do with sociology
    Core:
  7. Interactions: Sociology 132 (it is Social Psychology)
  8. Institutions & Social Processes course
  9. Power & Inequality course
    & then you have five electives-you will probably interested in at least some of the Sociology courses. I think that you should do it and just take the psych classes you are really interested in on the side OR minor in psychology. Do what is best for you & Good luck :)</p>

<p>u can switch majors if…</p>

<ol>
<li>you get great grades at ucla</li>
<li>are persistent</li>
<li>finish course requirements</li>
<li>are persistent</li>
</ol>

<p>hi HeatZz , what do you mean by finishing course requirments? After finishing course requirments, I will be asked to graduate right… ?</p>

<p>hi HeatZz , but what do you mean by finishing course requirments? Wont it be too late to change major since after finishing all the course requirments because I will be a senior by the time I will finish them. Thanks</p>