Best school for studying Political Science/Government/Women's Studies
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Anonymous
Sadly, my daughter went PolySci/Women's Studies as well. Hopefully she will go to law school which hopefully would be a bit more marketable. |
Anonymous
A law degree is hardly marketable these days. There are plenty of poly sci majors with jobs. |
Anonymous
| Georgetown isn't really all that Catholic. |
Anonymous
lol Yeah their birth control position is very mainstream. (sarcasm) |
Anonymous
The country is divided between Jews and self-hating Jews? lol Relax, PP. You were wrong and I understand that you are embarrassed. Btw, I am Jewish. |
Anonymous
I'm the PP - I think it's admirable that these girls are interested in bettering things for women, etc. I just fear, as you do, for their ability to make a living. Teaching is one way, I would imagine, and yes, pursuing law and specializing in discrimination and family law would be another. I get frustrated with colleges having these types of majors. A course or two, sure! That would be interesting. But with the money colleges charge, you'd think they would put them on the street with marketable skills. My niece is leaving U. Conn with a doctorate in pharmacy, and already has a job paying her about 150K to start. Now THAT'S education 
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Anonymous
Plenty of things you can do with a women's studies degree 
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Anonymous
| Brandeis University fits the requirements. Liberal, Jewish. LGBT friendly. Political correctness is very strong at Brandeis. We know a very capable student majoring in political science there. |
Anonymous
No, that's professional school. And this has been a conversation about college/undergrad choices. But it is appalling that college has, essentially, become the new HS and at such a high price tag, even for public schools. |
Anonymous
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DD goes to Sarah Lawrence and is very happy -- she had strong credentials going in and could have gone to a more "competitive" school but was attracted to its very intellectual environment. You can't beat it in terms of academic engagement. There are one on one meetings with professors every other week, classes are small seminars, for the most part, lots of reading, writing and independent work. Its a place where students talk about ideas outside of class. It is co-ed but skews female and is very strong for women's studies. However, I suspect it isn't so much for public policy -- its focus is more theoretical, so better for political theory.
OP, ignore the people who think every student should just study engineering. Thats just not true. |
Anonymous
Good choice! I know three of the faculty members in that department from grad school. All are very good teachers and really nice/smart/funny people. One of them teaches in Women's Studies as well. |
Anonymous
You have to start somewhere, as my niece did. She just picked a major that would guarantee her a good income. |
Anonymous
| Tufts. Has all the things you mention. |
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Most of these schools do not have women's studies as a major, rather its a concentration within another major. It sounds like thats what OP's DD is looking for.
There is no major that guarantees a good income. In my day, everyone went to law school thinking that was the ticket, and for the most part it was. And now it isn't, and there's a whole generation of law grads who went in thinking what we thought and now can't get jobs. It all has to do with what you do with your education. A good liberal arts degree, with good grades and especially independent work, will show future employers and grad schools -- including med schools -- that you can write, read, analyze, think. You don't get those skills in most undergraduate professional schools. And its very unlikely you will get them later on -- undergrad is the time. |
Anonymous
| GWU is great for Jewish kids and they just got the #1 ranking for internships of any college. |