<p>i don't really hear other majors being as employable. i've even seen a site that said something about employers tending to hire english majors most. this makes me feel like an english major is the next best thing to a business/engineering major. funny, i know. but i just can't seem to get this thought out of my mind. anyone want to convince me otherwise?</p>
<p>Actually english is the business international language. although I believe that asian languages are becoming extremely important, in a near future learning chinese, japanese and korean are going to become the "most employable" and with more opportunities languages.</p>
<p>Ok, ill try to convince you otherwise. I highly doubt that is a fact at all, Besides teaching or using it as a precursor to med or law school, what can you do with an english degree alone?</p>
<p>Unless you add in journalism your very much restricted, no business is gonna higher an english major IMO unless they speak other languages as well so that they can translate. What can you do with that degree that would be valueable to a business?</p>
<p>Not saying your wrong, thats just my opinion.</p>
<p>I can think of many humanities that are much more "employable" than english.</p>
<p>What can you do with that degree that would be valuable to a business?</p>
<p>Write properly. Communicate effectively. Analyze. Oh. And spell. Spelling is definitely a plus.</p>
<p>I think that English, Classics, and Philosophy are all very employable majors--the last two, even more than English. They do all of the things that the poster above me mentioned, but sound smarter on paper. "I wrote my senior thesis on Type-Identity Functionalism!" just sounds really smart. :P</p>
<p>In my opinion.</p>
<p>But I'm biased--as I intend to be a Classics major.</p>
<p>??Chinese and perhaps even Korean is a possibility, but why would Japanese be something really worth studying now?
In the 1980s, Japanese foreign language classes were very popular in the US as Japan just rose to the second highest industrial power after the US. In the 1990s as you know, Japan experienced a terrible economic recession that hampered their progress and gdp growth until only very recently. But now, there's the whole non-replacement population growth problem- a growing shortage of young workers to drive the future economy. imo, chinese, portuguese, and russian are the obvious best choices with arabic and korean not far behind.</p>
<p>But back to the original discussion, I think English is a fine major as long as someone takes a few "practical" classes as electives. In general though I think it would be better to complete a language major that you aren't already a native speaker of.</p>