What major at CAL is most successful at its respective purpose?

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@sakky

None of them - perhaps with the exception of interdisciplinary studies - has a reputation of being a creampuff major. Granted, they may be relatively easy majors, but the ‘Studies’ majors (and Mass Comm) surely are the most egregious examples of creampuff majors, where you truly can do next to nothing and still graduate.

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<p>From where do you get these reputations, besides your own claims? I do not recall hearing of any majors within the humanities or social studies (including business) areas having a particularly easy reputation compared to others in the same area, although the general reputation was that they were generally less work and less difficult than science or engineering majors (though not for everyone, since some engineering majors got worse grades in their humanities and social studies courses than in their engineering courses).</p>

<p>Also, the American Studies major is mostly composed of courses in other departments, while Media Studies / Mass Communications and Legal Studies have significant requirements of courses in other departments for their majors. So if they are considered “creampuff” majors, wouldn’t the other departments whose courses are used by these majors also be considered equally “creampuff” majors?</p>

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@sakky

Let’s face it - even somebody who is not naturally inclined towards American Studies is still surely going to pass the major.

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<p>That doesn’t mean that they will graduate with a GPA high enough to get into a top 14 law school, or be looked at favorably by a university considering an application for a second bachelor’s degree if the student decides that some other subject is a better fit.</p>