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Engineering

"Other", thanks for the inclusion! :P

Enviromental Studies

Quebec doesn't force to pass by the major/minor system. It exists, but is not the main way.
I'm doing a (Specialised) Chemistry Bachelor's Degree.

Economics and Political Science

Want to do Political Science and International Relations, but still in high school (technically still in middle school for 8 more days, but whatever).

History with Politics

History.

PoliSci, full specialization, with coop option

I'm in high school, but general music will be my major if it's offered at the school I get in to, voted economics as well cuz that'd be my major if the school doesn't offer general music.

Marketing and Public Policy, which both fall under business.

Er, no psychology, the most common major on college campuses? :P

Anyway, linguistics and psychology.  I voted for "other social science".

Economics, minor in finance. Will get a major in philosophy as well next semester if all goes to plan.

Honours chemistry.

Economics and International Affairs

Oh, I studied Psychology at the beginning, until I realized that it was basically a scam concocted by psychos or near psychos who needed to find a job.  And then I moved on to Poli Sci, that chaotic largely anecdotal field where quantitatively challenged folks play with numbers trying to pretend they got better than a "C" in algebra.  That lasted until I realized it was yet another scam, this time concocted by insensitive mono-dimensional megalomaniacs. And then after a detour into the Humanities (the less said about that the better), I found Economics, which rather hyperbolically calls itself a "science," but then it did muscle its way into its own category for the Nobel Prize so don't mess with it, or it may hurt you). Unlike with the first trio of clunkers, I really liked its act, in particular the one that most elegantly provided a moral justification as to why there are rich people and poor people, and that making money is good, and taxing it too much is bad. Eureka, this is the place said I to myself! Why did it take me so long?!  And then I found the law, the game there being to make it all so magnificently complex with tons of pretentious Latin and French (those damn Normans) words and phrases, the better to create barriers to entry to the masses, and increase the going hourly billing rate.  There I honed my skills as to how to make many folks poorer, and myself richer, all in accordance with that glorious invisible hand (except of course to the cognoscenti of whom I was now one, per my above referenced penultimate field of study, for whom the hand was not only visible, but fisted). My current field of study is not appropriate to discuss here. I think that about sums it up.

I love you, Torie.


What are we studying, drug production?

When I first went to college it was general studies/aviation...but I dropped out in '94....all of my college credits since then have been in the field of computers/electronics/generic.  No degree, though I have well more than enough for an associates for whatever that's worth.

Other humanities: Japanese Language and Literature.

Other - E-Commerce.  My major was very young at my school when I matriculated in June 2001.  It was one of the very few schools in the country to offer that as a major and it was only in its second year of being offered at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma.  I think the only big-name school I can think of that offered it was Clemson.  Unfortunately, E-Commerce is no longer offered as a degree program at NWOSU, so usually when I put down on resumes what my degree was, I'll switch between Business and Computer Science, usually the latter which was my minor.

We don't have the major/minor system, but I'm studying computer science.

Changed a few times.  I started out as a computer science major.  I had written statistics programs in BASIC on Apple iic-s and e-s for my school's sports teams when I was in high school, and figured I could make a career out of it.  After two and a half years of that, I got bored out of my skull learning how to do the same stuff in seven languages and simple heuristics in Prologue.  Plus, my dad died when I was 20, and I figured I should do something that interested me.  I was already interested in philosophy, but no philosophy major in my hometown, so I switched, intending to double-major in history and English.  Did that for a year and a half, then transferred to UND and finished a double-major in philosophy and religious studies in one year before going to grad school.

International Studies (focus on Latin America)
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Environmental Studies

Yep, the perfect hippie man combo, choosing a high-paying career path never crossed mind.

So, how does exactly works a minor-major system, and what someone wishing to have an Architecture graduation would have for undergraduation?

Private equity would be my guess. I'm not sure which is worse. :P

International History

Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Econ.


You do realize that's fraud, right?

Economics of course

This is only if there is a drop down box with predefined choices and no "other" option. Plus, E-Commerce is a cross between Business and Comp Sci.

Maths, minor in Computer Science.

Economics and Political Science.

History/American Politics double major - just three months away.

Philosophy.

My BA was in Modern & Contemporary History.

How is that defined?  Isn't the term "contemporary history" rather oxymoronic?  :P

Economics

Good man. I'm a minor.

Political Science

It's the present that just became the past.  There is always lots of new material to study.

Economics. I learned an ass-load, but I discourage anyone from heading down a path of such frustration. I also fully intended on having a Poli-Sci double major or a double minor in Marketing and Spanish...but neither even came close to happening.

Math and Physics double major complete with comprehensive exams in each one.

Where does modern end and contemporary begin?

Modernism in art peters out around 1950, modernism in architecture lasts maybe 15 years longer. The usage of the term 'modern' in books of the English language, according to Google's Ngram Viewer, peaks between 1930 and 1935. The term 'postmodern' begins its takeoff in the 1940s or 1950s. Are these the kinds of markers used to denote the difference? But then again, if that is our criteria then say, the year 1975, is neither modern nor contemporary.

Actually, most literature puts It on the 1959 CIAM congress.

political science/history double major

My BA was in Contemporary History & Politics

In practice it just meant that I took Modern modules in 2nd and 3rd year.


Henri Pirenne rides (somewhat surreally given his main period, but that's not the point) to the rescue, as remembered by Marc Bloch:

Modern history means modern modules. How helpful!  Thanks for the that nice quote however, from some dude I never heard of. That makes up for your doing like so many do when I depose them - the last thing the deponent wants to do is answer the question, and reveal anything that might be pertinent or useful.  :P

I had a double major of special education and history. I have never been interviewed once for a history teaching position but the saving grace was my endorsement in teaching students with behavior disorders. If anyone here is interested in becoming a teacher do not waste time going into general education as there are zero jobs in it.

Political Science

Radio and Television/Mass Communications

It's technically Radio and TV but in most universities it's called Mass Communications.

I have Human Geography as my major and minor studies are social policy, sosiology, economics and gender studies.

Literature (English) and Philosophy, of course.

Political Science

Political Science and Mathematical Economics.

Criminal Justice, so I voted for other social science.

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A major is a subject that you choose to specialize in when you recieve your bachelor's degree. Different professions require different majors (to be a teacher you would major in education, for instance). There are a certain number of classes dealing with the subject that you are required to take and then when you graduate your diploma says you majored in the subject.

Minors are similar to majors in that they have a certain number of required classes that you have to take and your diploma will say you minored in a subject, but the number of classes required is less than required for a major and most professions don't require you to minor in something.
Sometimes colleges will limit the number of majors and minors you can have, sometimes they won't. A lot of people don't minor in anything, and a lot of people with have two or three majors with a minor (or two) in there as well. Everyone has to have a major, but no one has to have a minor.

To answer your specific question, I'd assume you'd major in architecture (probably minor in either interior design or civil engineering or some such thing).

Its nice to know there are a few of us here - though the others are apparently Anshiviviki and Gustaf.

But I'm surprised I'm apparently the only 'English Major' on the site.  Reading the great novels, short stories poetry, etc., is a lot better education for a gentleman than learning about economics or politics or how to fix a computer or particle accelerator.  Its not learning Greek or Latin admittedly, but its still pretty good.

Computer Science. I was an Economics/Political Science double major, but discovered that I liked programming after taking some classes at the University and decided to pursue CS. It's a heavier workload, but much more enjoyable to me.

If I could do it all over again, I'd probably have been an astrophysics or astronautical engineering major...or maybe civil engineering. I really needed the economics though; it helped me rediscover my love of math, but now that I have it, I feel like I should be doing more with it. It doesn't really help that my courses are really easy. Grass is always greener I guess.

Arab and islamic studies, full specialization

Economics and Math

Yeah, I really think that sociology has strengthened my background on some issues in my major. Now I'm thinking about Border crossing studies, because it's one speciality in my university and it's one possible masters program for me.

It's funny, but I took some CJ classes from two professors who are not bleeding hearts by any measure. Just by their analysis of the death penalty alone has me rethinking my support for it. I've always been in favor of the DP and thought I always would be. O_O

Good :)

Join BA (none of that major/minor rubbish here) in History and Anthropology.

On this issue, though, it's not just an American thing (surprisingly). The vast majority of BA programs require minor subjects in Germany as well.

Do you mean 'joint'?  I also did a double degree, but its all just a matter of terminology isn't it? 

this holds true for a number of the programs I can think of here in the US, as well.


Myself: Political Science (concentration in Public Policy), with a dual minor in Public Administration and Economics.

That's not surprising how much of the American university system is German in origin...

@Opebo: Yes, "joint" but that is not the terminology we use here.