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    Default Re: Community colleges?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vuk View Post
    History. Literally, there are two classes that you should need to get a history degree 300 and 489, but instead you have to spend 4+ years of learning nothing.
    Speaking as a former History major, you can't come close to fully understanding the subject even from a single undergrad degree in it, let alone two classes. If you're learning nothing, you're not trying. Why are you even majoring in a subject that you don't care about?

    Quote Originally Posted by AntiKingWarmanCake88 View Post
    Good luck trying to get a job. My brother (King Jan III Sobieski) has a BA in History and a MA in Liberal Arts and he is working at Target. He's book about one of our local towns is coming out next year, but that's really the only History stuff he is able to do and get paid for it and stick it on his resume.
    On an employment level, History is like most of the other social sciences: it's a degree that demonstrates you can learn and have mental flexibility, it's not a door to a job in and of itself. Those majors are for people who want to go into other fields which focus on mental gymnastics and non-rigid production. These are things like journalism, education, psychology, law, and entertainment. Most of these do indeed require another degree after a BA, but the social sciences BA is a very good first step for them.
    Last edited by TinCow; 11-22-2010 at 22:33.


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