Which majors make someone seem sophisticated?

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

LMAO

Is a future career plan the best way to examine your Being and Time? Are you sure you are actualizing Dasein? Hhmmm

Sophisticated people do both at the same time
They are capable of planning for the future and examine their being and time
It's not mutually exclusive.

Sophisticated people realize that "time," of course, is simply a spinning of the earth.

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

I was a philosophy major. Most of the people who graduated with me ended up either on Wall Street or at law school. We did have one go to med school the year before I graduated.

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STEM and med degrees are utilitarian, difficult to get for sure, but they do not scream sophisticated... the opposite actually.

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Anonymous wrote:STEM and med degrees are utilitarian, difficult to get for sure, but they do not scream sophisticated... the opposite actually.

You are probably confused them with plumbing or auto mechanic

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Anonymous wrote:STEM and med degrees are utilitarian, difficult to get for sure, but they do not scream sophisticated... the opposite actually.

You are probably confused them with plumbing or auto mechanic

No, I agree with pp.

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

+100 Economics

Economics at T25ish schools

Well that changes the discussion then, as you could say that about all majors (or none).

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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.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Are you serious? Have you read Heidegger? Hegel?

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At good schools: Humanities degrees

At bad schools: Physics, Pure mathematics, philosophy

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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.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Are you serious? Have you read Heidegger? Hegel?

Yes. I double majored in philosophy. I guess my strengths are in reading and analysis, though, as I am also a lawyer. I found calculus and physics to be difficult.

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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.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Are you serious? Have you read Heidegger? Hegel?

Yes. I double majored in philosophy. I guess my strengths are in reading and analysis, though, as I am also a lawyer. I found calculus and physics to be difficult.

I read lit, philosophy, history for fun, interest, curiousity. I would not dive into calculus or physics texts for fun. It did not occur to me that people would find philosophy to e "sophisticated." I though it more of a nerdy interest of mine. Shrug.

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Art History, yes. It is erudite. Because it deals with something that is not functional or necessary. A hobby pursued on the part of those with leisure time and surplus cash.

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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.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Exactly my question. Is sophisticated even a thing anymore?

Basically it seems like the youngs are now mostly focused on Snapchat and tik tok, so....

Yes, and tik tok is all about mass appeal . . . kind of the opposite of sophistication, right?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I agree with this.

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Anonymous wrote:Art History, yes. It is erudite. Because it deals with something that is not functional or necessary. A hobby pursued on the part of those with leisure time and surplus cash.

Spoken like someone who read Thorstein Veblen in a philosophy or economics class.

Also, +1 to puppetry.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't think of a more basic, sheepish major than economics.....

I think a PhD in economics makes me think someone is smart but you're right about undergrad economics.