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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fifty years ago, University of Maryland, College Park, had a "College of Human Ecology"?  That was a euphemism for "Home Economics".  They still have Family Science and Kinesiology majors in the School of Public Health.  Other universities have them too.

HYP schools do not offer these majors.  IMO, those majors are not appropriate in a publicly subsidized institution of higher learning.  You could split hairs about overlap among humanities departments, or criticize vocational aspects of business education.  But Home Ec and Kinesiology not fundamental scholarly disciplines.  Why the hell do we even have them in universities?[/quote]

There are many majors that HYP schools don't offer because their undergrad programs are essentially liberal arts and sciences... for example you won't see marketing, business, or accounting majors at HYP, instead you if you want to go into one of those fields would you would probably major in economics (and then get relevant internships over the summers). [/quote]

HYP/Ivy don’t offer because they never offered them.  They were all male, except for Cornell, when those were majors were the options for women. [/quote]

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