Which majors make someone seem sophisticated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a question that George Costanza would ask.

+1

FFS OP.

[Anonymous]

Comparative Literature

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Art History

+1.

[Anonymous]

Neuroscience, pre-med, computer science, engineering

[Anonymous]

Classics, French Lit.

Art History is a toss up. Could be sophisticated, could be someone with no career direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience, pre-med, computer science, engineering

None of the above.

[Anonymous]

Classics makes you seem like a bookish oddball nowadays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classics, French Lit.

Art History is a toss up. Could be sophisticated, could be someone with no career direction.

+1

[Anonymous]

Semiotics. Physics and philosophy are the hardest majors - applied math major here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Semiotics. Physics and philosophy are the hardest majors - applied math major here.

Applied math is the exact opposite of sophisticated. Smart but not sophisticated.

[Anonymous]

Linguistics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Semiotics. Physics and philosophy are the hardest majors - applied math major here.

Applied math is the exact opposite of sophisticated. Smart but not sophisticated.

+1 it’s like claiming accounting is sophisticated.

Art history.

[Anonymous]

Some sort of custom major/double major that indicates you know where the future of academics / research lies. Like mixing political science and GIS/geography so that you can do map-based research for political campaigns. Or a digital humanities inflected degree that mixes something like literature or history with computational thinking / machine learning, where you learn how to turn archival resources into giant data sets and parse them for insight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classics, French Lit.

Art History is a toss up. Could be sophisticated, could be someone with no career direction.

I think you'd have to actually be good at any of the three to count as sophisticated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Theatre, but said as “THEE uh tahh” and wears berets, all black and ballet flats or jazz shoes, also black and outfit described is unisex.

And expresses self periodically with jazz hands.

-- Theatre MFA