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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd is a freshman and an international relations major with a minor in Spanish. She loves it, but is very concern about employment prospects. She is considering switching to a different major like accounting or even nursing which she has zero desire to do. She says she really wants stability and financial security and is very worried. It doesn't help that everyone she's close to is pre-health or engineering. What advice would you give her? She does not want to go to law school, perhaps business school but she'd like good employment prospects post college.[/quote]

One possible strategy to be an employable humanities or social sciences major:

If the students can handle math, they should emphasize that by taking statistics and data analysis courses and, ideally, getting a math or statistics minor.

They should be active in student organizations, and they should have student organization positions, work-study jobs and internships that show that they have useful work skills.

One reason that humanities and social sciences classes are a little easier than physics or biology is that the students with those majors are supposed to be out running a fraternity, a school newspaper or a community service group.

The students should recognize that humanities and social sciences majors started off as pre-law, pre-theology, pre-public affairs, pre-journalism and pre-teaching majors. They need to go into single majoring in the humanities or social sciences understanding that, unless they get very lucky, they might have to get a graduate degree in one of those areas or something similar to be employable. That’s simply how the humanities and the social sciences work.  [/quote]

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