Which majors make someone seem sophisticated?

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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

Lol no. I actually have a STEM degree. They are good at getting good solid jobs and become part of the middle class. Not for someone who wants to signal sophistication at all.

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Would a minor in art history seem sophisticated? DD is majoring in visual effects and is required to take 5 art history classes in order to graduate. She feels it’s too much given that 6 art history classes are needed for a minor in art history.

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Anonymous wrote:Would a minor in art history seem sophisticated? DD is majoring in visual effects and is required to take 5 art history classes in order to graduate. She feels it’s too much given that 6 art history classes are needed for a minor in art history.

One is plenty sophisticated enough for me!

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Anonymous wrote:Would a minor in art history seem sophisticated? DD is majoring in visual effects and is required to take 5 art history classes in order to graduate. She feels it’s too much given that 6 art history classes are needed for a minor in art history.

Don't do it. PPs were joking about art history.

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Physics and math.

And I'm not just saying that because they were my majors

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It's not the major, it's the school.

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Hands down, BS in Prestige sophistication.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics and math.

And I'm not just saying that because they were my majors

Smart ? Yes
Sophisticated ? It depends

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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.

Don't expect too much from an ambulance chaser.

Don't expect too much from someone who thinks everyone with a law degree is an ambulance chaser. Why do people make dumb comments like this? Not the pp by the way.

NP and another lawyer. The PP wasn’t asserting all lawyers are ambulance chaser. PP was asserting that any attorney who uses his law degree as a reason for us to trust his analysis that philosophy majors must not have career planning skills must be an ambulance chaser. You proved PP’s point that not all lawyers are educated. Many are, but many are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Lol no. I actually have a STEM degree. They are good at getting good solid jobs and become part of the middle class. Not for someone who wants to signal sophistication at all.

I agree with this. I’m an Engineer. It’s very practical, not my idea of sophisticated.

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Anonymous wrote:Puppetry

https://admissions.wvu.edu/academics/majors/puppetry

Not sure if this was posted facetiously, but I had a friend who did her senior thesis on puppetry and ended up working for Julie Taymor. My friend was very sophisticated.

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Political science, linguistics

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Accounting

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Journalism.

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Anonymous wrote:Accounting

Not at all. I say that as someone whose child is majoring in that.