<p>hey I was wondering if we could start a list of all the unique majors we hear of, either majors only available to one or a very few colleges, or just different kinds of Majors. Example: Yale has a Physics and Philosophy major, I've never seen it before. Any other strange ones?</p>
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<p>Peace and Conflict studies - UC Berkeley</p>
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<p>I've always thought thet Cornell's Hotel Administration school was kind of unique.</p>
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<p>Fundamentals: Issues and Texts (basically studying the Great Books)
Law, Letters, and Society</p>
<p>Both are offered as majors at the University of Chicago, and I know quite a few people majoring in/interested in majoring in the former.</p>
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<p>Celtic Studies: UC Berkeley </p>
<p>Native American Studies: Dartmouth</p>
<p>Arctic Studies: Bowdoin</p>
<p>Ethnobotany: U Hawaii</p>
<p>Expeditionary Studies: SUNY Plattsburgh</p>
<p>Astrobiology: ASU</p>
<p>Geoarchaeology: Hamilton</p>
<p>Yiddish Studies: Columbia</p>
<p>Folklore & Mythology: Harvard</p>
<p>Peace, War, and Defense: UNC Chapel Hill</p>
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<p>Egyptology: Brown (also has Portuguese and Brazilian studies)</p>
<p>Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (a single major): WUStL</p>
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<p>Oh, I forgot a couple of my favorites:</p>
<p>Turfgrass Management: Ohio State</p>
<p>When I went there, Iowa State had a Poultry Science major. It looks like they have now lumped all the separate categories of lifestock into Animal Science, though. Too bad -- when I was on the debate team, I would meet people from more cosmopolitan schools and tell them I was a poultry science/ pre law major because I wanted to be a chicken lawyer. I actually had some people believe me :)</p>
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<p>Bard offers a Buddhist Studies major
Maryland offers "Crafts" (as in arts and crafts)</p>
<p>^ Crafts, thats a funny one</p>
<p>HIPS (History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Medicine)</p>
<p>another UChicago one</p>
<p>DianeR - LOL. That was quite funny! You made me burst in laughter at the library. How'd that poultry science major go? heh</p>
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<p>Fortunately, no one ever asked me exactly what one studied in poultry science. I never thought of looking at the course catalog to help the lie along.</p>
<p>Maybe it wasn't nice, but we got irked at how people would assume that we had to live on farms because we were in Iowa and wonder if Iowa State "had classes in regular subjects or just farm stuff." Usually these were the same people we met in power-matched rounds, where you debate teams with the same record as yours. We would hear them whispering to each other things like, "We must be doing poorly ... look who we're debating!" So we did like to engage in a little psychological warfare before the judge came into the room.</p>
<p>We had some hick accents, too :) Oh, we were awful ...</p>
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<p>We were talking about this in my class and someone said that there was a suburban studies major at some college I can't remember</p>
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<p>Googling this (yes, I'm procrastinating from doing something more productive I don't feel like doing right now) I can find a couple centers for suburban studies. In terms of actual majors, all I'm finding is "urban and suburban studies" -- close but not quite.</p>
<p>But I've now lost interest. Time to find some other way to waste time ...</p>
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<p>St. Olaf has a Norwegian major</p>
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<p>UC Berkeley</p>
<p>Queer Studies</p>
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<p>University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Medieval & Renaissance Studies</p>
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<p>Brown, I know, has medieval studies and Renaissance & early modern studies both. My daughter has a friend there actually contemplating the former.</p>
<p>I just checked with Princeton Review and it shows 43 places with this. But then, it shows 67 places with turfgrass science, so my earlier example isn't THAT unique.</p>
<p>For some reason it doesn't list any place as having Egyptology, even though Brown has it.</p>
<p>It shows only South Plains College as having an "Acoustics" major. People might go to the site and see if they can find any other one school majors. Those with nothing better to do LOL</p>
<p>Just go to the alphabetic list and check the schools that offer it.
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorSearch.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorSearch.asp</a></p>
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<p>This one not unique but funny: Political Economy of Non Industrialized Societies, or P.E.N.I.S.</p>
<p>Dietetics. only read the first line:
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorBasics.asp?majorID=81%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorBasics.asp?majorID=81</a></p>
<p>LOL Is the first one an actual major somewhere?</p>
<p>I like the idea of "bakery science." You could probably make lots of friends telling folks this was your major.</p>
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<p>It actually was a major at berkeley, but they changed it to devlopment studies. P.E.N.I.S. sounds so much better.</p>