<p>IN YOUR OPINION what are some the worst/inconsequential majors that just a waste of time? I'd say Film, only because that tells an employer you spent four years in a dark room watching movies. That said, I love Film, but I just have a feeling it would be a waste of time.</p>
<p>General Studies, Communication, Kinesiology,</p>
<p>American Studies
African-American Studies
Asian Studies
Religion
Philanthropy
Outdoor Leadership
Recreational Management
Liberal Studies
Peace Studies</p>
<p>Anything else ending in "studies."</p>
<p>What about math?</p>
<p>Basically everything and nothing is useless. It just depends on how you use the knowledge and the resources you've gained as a result. A person with a very "useful" marketing degree can end up nowhere and vice-versa for someone a degree in Peace Studies or whatever.</p>
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<p>As someone who attends a liberal arts college and has, actually, taken at least one course in all of those listed disciplines either as a distributional requirement or as an elective, I really, really disagree.</p>
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<p>economics, if you don't do math, like at McGill.</p>
<p>But seriously, undergrad economics is useless. I don't know how to do anything.</p>
<p>Undecided majors (its ok for a while, but you shouldn't be in your 3rd year and not know)</p>
<p>Fashion. Very few people get to design clothes</p>
<p>To the OP: for real, as it goes on, there will be not a single major that wouldn't be mentioned.</p>
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<p>History because you can't get any decent job straight out of college. Sucks. =/</p>
<p>Okay.. well what are GOOD majors? I feel like I've heard bad things about everything. Maybe we need another thread for good majors?</p>
<p>^dude, read my post! (#9)
I'm telling ya! there's like no Good or Bad major! As I've said it in so many places....it comes down to ur personality and individuality/goals u desire to achieve!</p>
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<p>journalism, communications</p>
<p>If by worst you mean career prospects weighed, I'm going to say dance...there's nothing you can do with that degree that you can't do without it (true for a lot of majors, but most of my dance major friends think they're going to go on to be performers...)</p>
<p>^same as for drama then? </p>
<p>i'm going to have to add photography to that as well</p>
<p>jaso9n2 I'm a film production major and let me tell you we do a lot more than sit in a room watching movies as an assignment.</p>
<p>Also, the movies we watch aren't all fun and games either. You'd be surprised what we have to learn in order to obtain a degree.</p>
<p>and yea, it is fun though.</p>
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<p>TRUE, undergrad economics is mostly useless.
It's dumbed down theory. You can't make much of it.</p>
<p>I also think english is often useless. Especially when we're focusing too much on old-english e.g. shakespeare, etc. That has ZERO relevance today. Nobody writes/reads shakespeare today for any publication. And shakespeare has already been theorized and analyzed way too much.</p>
<p>At least recreational management is used today. and communications is obviously used in advertising/broadcasting, etc.</p>
<p>Its too bad how often people categorize college studies as simply "useful" or "not useful" in terms of eventually being able to make money.</p>
<p>The majority of the college experience, for me anyway, was about learning how to think and develop ideas, and how to write. Profs in the English, history and religion departments have told me that undergraduate studies in ANY subject is essentially useless, and graduate school (including med/law) is where you actually are able to truly learn within your chosen field, and "learn" how to make a living doing it. </p>
<p>Undergraduate studies in the liberal arts, no matter what major you are actually in, are about developing your thought process, teaching you how to be a strong writer, how to be a good reader and interpreter of ideas, themes, theories, practices... not how to eventually find a job.</p>
<p>Yes, you do have a very good point about liberal arts degrees. But, technically when I get out of college, I'll probably be working for a year or two and it will probably be really difficult for me to get a good paying job to pay off some of the massive debts I've piled up. I think that does qualify for the "useful" definition.</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure that a lot of employers consider an undergraduate engineering degree as a professional degree. I mean, a lot (if not, most) engineers go back for a MS and/or PhD, but its definitely not necessary.</p>