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tania:
i'm a sociology major and social psychology minor.
i chose to major in sociology because i find people interesting and therefore figured school would be really easy for me. it pretty much is. it's a bit of a useless degree on it's own, though, so make sure you have a pretty solid plan for what you want to do after school. i'm probably going to end up getting an MA in criminology at some point and most schools ask only for a undergraduate degree in some kind of social sciences, so i figured this would be a pretty easy route. if you're not planning on going to graduate school, try to have a good idea of what kind of work you want to do after school and then get a lot of experience in that field. also, if you want to do anything related to social work it's good to know in advance that this will leave you pretty poor for a long time because it requires billions of hours of experience to get into, all of which will probably be volunteering and/or very low paying, and your job in the end will also probably not pay that well. which is still fine if you don't care about money, but i mean i figure it's good to know what to expect before investing time and money into that kind of career.
Liz:
Take some anthropology classes too. If you like history and sociology you will really enjoy them.
Peet:
I don't know about across the pond (the British and American university systems seem very different) but my brother has just graduated history and did a lot of the whys and wherefores and not much of the whens. I could get on with history if it was all "and then this happened in this year and then this guy did that" but apparently the higher studies of it are not much of that at all. There is a lot of opinions involved, which I find frankly abhorrent in a degree.
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--- Quote from: Misconception on 27 Jul 2008, 10:00 ---Take some anthropology classes too. If you like history and sociology you will really enjoy them.
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Agreed. Sociology pairs up nicely with both anthropology and history, especially if you want to teach.
morca007:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 27 Jul 2008, 10:00 ---Take some anthropology classes too. If you like history and sociology you will really enjoy them.
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Don't take any if you like history and hate sociology though, or do hard sciences, anthropology and sociology will frustrate you to no end.
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