Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
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?



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.
That is just it Tin Cow, even with an undergrad degree you will not understand the content and the scholarship of your field to even a workable extent. That is only done by extensive independent research, and is not something that a professor can or will hold your hand through. What is really important, and what college is supposed to teach you is research methods and academic protocol. That is taught in those two courses, and everything else is just BS. You get these tiny little, unhelpful previews of other fields, and occasionally something from your own, but nothing that makes you any closer to being an expert on the field.

And I never said that I do not care about History. History is my true love...it is college that I hate. A four year degree does not make you a Historian. Anything that you write will not get published and will carry no weight at all. All that you really learn about being a Historian you learn in two classes, and everything else is just a repeat of high-school where you get minimum exposure to sources and the available scholarship, and just end up learning trivia facts from tertiary sources. Sorry TC, but majoring in History is just one big waste of time.