<p>Does any one have any majors and minors that are off the beaten path? For example, do you want to major in Latin American/Chicano Studies and you're not latino? Or do you want to major in Folklore and Mythology?</p>
<p>I'll start first: I want to major in East Asian Studies with a minor in Asian-American studies and I'm black.</p>
<p>I’d love to major in astronomy. Minor in neuroscience. </p>
<p>Srsly. Who the hell does that?</p>
<p>I think I’m going to go the normal route and major in bio and minor in chem, math or physics… hopefully go to med school…</p>
<p>Some of my friends want to major useless majors like psychology, english and history…</p>
<p>I also heard of this girl talking about majoring in womens studies, and i dont know if its a real major</p>
<p>Womens Studies (sometimes just Gender Studies) is definitely a real major. Don’t know what could be done with it, but whatever floats your boat, you know.</p>
<p>men majoring in gai-no-chology (can’t spell) or women becoming urologist?</p>
<p>Great books</p>
<p>I thought most gynocologists are men.</p>
<p>Women’s studies is very real, and my friend A wants to major in that and then go to med school. She wants to open up a clinic for women/ save the world. She’s crazy/awesome.</p>
<p>And liberal arts majors are not useless, grrr. My brother’s a psych major who’s going to be a kindergarten teacher, which I think is kind of an important job. </p>
<p>I’m majoring in television production, don’t know how normal that is.</p>
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Around my hometown that’s true, which made it really hard to find a female gyneocologist… I think we had to go more than an hour out of the way to find one, since I was already pretty freaked out by the idea of a gyno exam and didn’t want the gyno’s gender to make it even weirder…</p>
<p>Anyways, for weird major: underwater baseketweaving. guess which college features that</p>
<p>^ Isn’t that MIT? (in reference to underwater basketweaving)</p>
<p>I’m possibly majoring in urban studies. </p>
<p>But here’s the twist, I’m a republican… that’s probably pretty unusual.</p>
<p>University of Guam.</p>
<p>Underwater Basketweaving</p>
<p>I think that most LA (liberal arts) studies are useless unless you go to grad school. I cannot understand why someone would study english for four years in college, and then go work as a clerk somewhere. But then again, I am going to study the "meat and potatoes"iest thing there is, engineering, so I guess I am biased.</p>
<p>I want to major in criminal psychology with a minor in bioethics.</p>
<p>Studying Liberal Arts is not useless. Pyschology? English? Teaching? Honestly, these majors are among the most popular out there. They need passion AND intellect to get through. Just because they don’t automatcially make a 100k a year, like a laywer or a medical doctor, doesn’t mean their pointless. Yes, science and math are indeed extremly important to society. However, that doesn’t make liberal arts any less. Pyschologists study behaviors of people that help in the workplace, school, to help make a thriving society. English majors go onto to many things, from writing brillant novels, to enriching others by teaching, or perhaps informing the world through journalism (another major, also). Teaching is obvious enough. So please, let all majors exist without predjudice. Just because someone would prefer to write a short story than find out what diatoms eat, doesn’t make them less important.</p>
<p>that was going to be my response, but u beat me to it violet :)</p>
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See, the problem with this line of reasoning is that math majors can generally write and think as well as or better than English majors. People say the liberal arts improve your critical thinking and writing skills, but I doubt it; the standards in most English departments are not very high. Four years of high school English and some more college English hasn’t had much of an effect on my writing. But you know what has? The internet. You can read all those books and learn how to write on your own time; college is for doing work that is very difficult to do by yourself.</p>
<p>Also, there’s not much you can point to in an English curriculum and call useful to a employer.</p>
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<p>LOLOLOLOLOL. Genius.</p>
<p>I’m not going to major in it but Carnegie mellon has the only bagpipe major offered.</p>
<p>Some writer I like, whose name I can’t remember said if he wasn’t already a writer he knew college wouldn’t make him one (he did go to college though. And he teaches writing courses at a college too I think). Whatever you are when you matriculate at your uni, you’ll still be when you egress. College courses don’t make you into something you have no other chance of being.</p>
<p>I think I’m going to major in linguistics. It’s not the most popular major out there, but it’s not too odd.</p>
<p>LA degrees aren’t useless. A lot of people go from being, say, a History or English major to law school. My brother was a History major at Howard (which, in my youth, I, beamingly proud, confused with Harvard) and now he teaches.</p>
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<p>Yeah, but can’t you major in chemistry and go to law school? Is there really an advantage to majoring in English or history for this purpose?</p>