<p>film</p>
<p>i think there are a lot of majors out there that are good only as minors, like english, communications, math, history, philosophy, etc. that give you the skills (how to write, how to analyze, how to communicate, how to speak publicly, how to etc) that a lot of people in this thread speak of, because ultimately, you want to major in those subjects because you want the skills, right?</p>
<p>but i think film/drama is a really useless subject, major or minor.</p>
<p>"I wouldnāt like to say any major is useless. Some of the more commonly listed ones on here, namely the liberal arts majors, help you learn how to write, think critically, and teach an individual a lot about something theyāre interested in. Further, thereās more to a degree than a major, especially in Liberal Arts, students take many classes outside their major. Itās not quite fair to say Liberal Arts are worthless because they donāt lead immediately to superior job opportunities. </p>
<p>However, there are some majors which seem to exist primarily to give people a very easy path to a degree. </p>
<p>In engineering and sciences, the background knowledge and skills attained are what are necessary. Sure, you might get a Chemical Engineering degree, go be a Chemical Engineer, and not use any specific knowledge you attained in college. However, if whatever company that hired you had hired you 4 years prior as you were graduating high school, you probably couldnāt have been productive there. "</p>
<p>My school has 5 technical electives total, with over 20 different classes to choose from in chemistry, biology, physics, MechE, materials and computers for Chemical Engineering majors. there are 5 technical electives total spanning materials, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, physics, geology and biology for Chemistry majors. Chemistry majors also have to take less required classes, so most pick up a 2nd degree or a minor in either Math, Computer Science, Materials, Biology, Physics, Environmental Engineering or Chemical Engineering. Thereās plenty of freedom in technical degrees.</p>
<p>I think all majors stink. Theyāre all rotten, stupid, good for nothings.</p>
<p>That said, at least with my major, i can be confident that what Iām learning is actually true. No small feat.</p>
<p>one more thoughtā¦</p>
<p>I do all the hiring for our corporation. On average I hire 10 new graduates each year, we are a software company but we also need business analyst types that can figure out the ROI for the client once they have implemented our software. So, we need some math skills, some technical skills but above all else, we need people with PEOPLE skills. I have a staff of engineers that can teach technical skills to anyone with a little aptitude (what they may know from school does not usually apply to our specific business). </p>
<p>The only skill that I canāt successful teach a new hire is people skills, either you have them or you donāt. I have many engineers who have limited their careers because I cannot send them to a client site. </p>
<p>So, I interview people that have degrees in everything. Here are my hiring priorities: </p>
<p>1) Do they have people skills (can they carry on a conversation, do they read body languageā¦at all?)
2) Will they fit with the existing team? If they fit socially, the team will bend over backward to help them, if they donāt fit, they will fail.</p>
<p>Iām sorry, I meant Bachelors, because nowadays a masters is required. I very much respect social workers, but now a BSW isnāt cutting it.</p>
<p>My cousin has a bachelors and masters is this field.</p>
<p>Womens Studies-The only thing you can really do is be a glorified feminist</p>
<p>Any Foreign Language-You could probably learn more by going to the place the language originated. Youād save money too.</p>
<p>Iād just like to throw out that for people who are saying English Majors:Wether its just English, English Comp. or English Lit. You can go to Law school with that major like I plan to. I guess, what iām saying is, alone yes the Bachelors is useless, but it can easily become profitable.</p>
<p>hey i donāt think mine has been mentioned yet!!! :D</p>
<p>^ I think mine was only mentioned once! That is pretty good. Haha</p>
<p>International Relations/affairs. absolutely worthless and Iād argue more than ātraditionallyā worthless degrees such as Womenās Studies, etc.</p>
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<p>Okay, that made me laugh even though it was posted more than a year ago.</p>
<p>A++</p>
<p>An existence without the arts would be a dreadful existence indeed.</p>
<p>Ask yourself this, are your majorās core courses considered elctives for other majors?</p>
<p>I mean, as an engineer I am taking ENVIRON 376 to get a Humanities requirement out of the way. I donāt see any of them taking ME 350 to get their Engineering requirment out of the way.</p>
<p>I agree with you, but another way of looking at that: Their major is so important that you need to take some of their classes as electives, while itās unnecessary for them to take any part of yours.</p>
<p>^actually itās not one majorās specific courses I need to take. I can take what course I want as long as its HU.</p>
<p>So you can look at as them all being equally worthless and interchangable.</p>
<p>ā¦ I mean, if I can take a core course from your major over the summer, over the internet, through a community college and get credit I would say that says something haha</p>
<p>Exactly Woody - their classes are ALL so important, so versatile, so wide ranging, and touching on relevancy on so many facets of humanity. Whereas your own majorās courses are soā¦obscure, specialized, irrelevant, and unnecessary and inapplicable beyond the field :)</p>
<p>LOL at the people on here who said that business and finance majors are worthless. I bet saying that goes over real well in your liberal art classes with your other hipster students who want to fight āthe manā but there will always be demand for business majors in the REAL WORLD</p>
<p>Sports Management and Physical Education. </p>
<p>I canāt help but think of a total burnout majoring in this (who sits in their dorm watching sports games all weekend) - no offense to any sports management and/or physical education majors here! This is merely my own judgement! Haha!</p>
<p>Hereās my insight on this. No major is worthless. You can have friends that have majored in so and so and they say " aw man I canāt find a job". Take into account skills that they have or might lack in. For example, two Sociology majors are applying for a computer programming job. One just has a regular Sociology degree and the other one has the degree also with experience in Java and C++. It matters. You also got to think about your location. Say you are located in a country town and you are just about the only doctor there. Bingo. Compare it to a place like California. People have this holier than thou attitude that oh Iām majoring in engineering, Iām gonna make bank, your major sucks. You go to college to get a degree in what you love, not just for a high paying job that will make you miserable for the rest of your life.</p>
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<p>Why the **** would I hire a Sociology major as my computer programmer?</p>
<p>Itās an example. I didnāt know you needed to have a degree in computer programming in order to become a computer programmer.</p>