Sugarflower wrote:Gah thats a toughy! I chose the Archaeology / Anthropology but my second choice would be Art history / Art studies.
What she said. Exactly
Oh, but yes, as a useful field for the mundane purposes of, say, feeding oneself... international banking and whatnot definitely beats out my personal preferences!
Folklore (my actual discipline) is immensely popular with students and is increasingly important in public policy-making. One of my colleagues was deeply involved in the response to the AIDS pandemic by health and police services in a Canadian province that is strongly supportive of her university and her work (because of its role in promoting tourism). Alas, in the States, it's often seen as a junk discipline, kinda like "cultural studies," and its popularity is routinely discounted. At one university, the powers that be actually tried to penalize the teachers of popular folklore courses, because they were taking students away from "real" courses because they were "easier."
Mmmm ... anything is easy (including science) if you don't think too hard about it.
I can't think of anything. You think of something.
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
-I, Robot (Asimov)
My BA was in Animation, and many of the requirements were tedious art history and art studies classes which frankly, bored me to tears and called for some extremely complicated exams. If it weren't for my love of Animation and the amount of time it's courses and requirements sucked up in my schedule, I would have loved to study something like Archaeology and/or Anthropology, so that is what I chose in the poll. I also would have loved to study Parapsychology, but very few Universities offer majors and/or classes for it.