<p>Hi.<br>
Declaring a major and explaining it is a very important step of application for transfer. Right? I need some help here. I want to work at U.N. or somewhere similar to this after my graduation. What should I major in?? My interests lie on the East Asian countries (China, Japan and Korea), and their relationship, culture/history, and politics. I have PARTICULAR interests on their international relations. How they deal with each other, N. Korea, and the rest of the world.<br>
Almost every college has East Asian Studies. Other than this one, what are the possible majors for me? Not every college has International Relations, am i right? Or is it just a specific program under some major, and I'm just having a hard time to find it??? Thank you all!!</p>
<p>minads - Are you currently a freshman or a sophomore? You don't necessarily need to declare a major when you transfer. But you may want to if you will be transferring in as a Junior. You may even want to as a sophomore.</p>
<p>The key thing is that you need to research each school you will apply to and identify possible majors for that school (or at some schools you may indicate that you plan to create an interdisciplinary major). Your application will be strongest if you tailor your approach re major to each school, based on its programs and strengths. As one school it might be International Relations with special emphasis on East Asia. At another, it could even be majoring in one of the languages with a minor or double major in East Asian Studies or International Relations or Government or....</p>
<p>There is no one answer. By digging deeply into each school's website, course catalogs online, special research interests of certain professors, special institutes they may have, you will both figure out what you would like to major in at that school and show that you really know why that school would be a good fit for you and you for it.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>You can major in international relations or international studies. Although not every single school has those majors, they are out there. Usually, the bigger schools have them as oppose to liberal arts college. To get into jobs with the UN you don't neccessarily need an IR degree, regular political science is okay too. In fact, the UN has many different positions available such as statiscians, lawyers, doctors, you name it. But of course it depends on what you would like to emphasize on, since you are interested in the policy/political aspect of it, IR or political science would be good.</p>
<p>UC San Diego has a graduate school for international relations, I hear it is pretty good.</p>
<p>Thank you, jmmom and Yams.<br>
jmmom- I am a sophomore now. Can I repeat my sophomore year again if i want after transfer?<br>
The reason I'm trying to finalize my major is that my professors are asking why I'm transferring. My guess is that they want to mention it in the recommendation letters. And secondly, as you said, since I know what I want to study for, my application will become stronger by writing an essay on it.<br>
My question to you is that "Do my professors have to mention why I want to transfer (in my case, its an academic reason- IR/East Asian Studies)? The purpose of academic recommendations is to measure my academic abilities, not to indicate my reason for transferring, right? I want to study IR/ East Asian Studies for sure, but my focus might change when I write my essay, and I don't want them to be different from what my professors say in the recommendation. Thank you!</p>
<p>yea ucsd has a ton of majors good for preparing a person in the field of UN related work and international relations..look into that</p>