| Political Science -- "boring and easy?"
I've been happily taking poli sci classes and planning to major in it, but I just read a few things on the internet about how it's not necessarily a well-respected or prestigious major. Prestige is, of course, not the determining factor when it comes to deciding your major, but it is discouraging to read things about how political science is one of the easiest majors to get a good GPA in. I plan to go into law or international relations, so it's a logical thing to study, but I wonder if/how/why the major appears to have this reputation? I love reading academic political essays and writing papers about international politics, but I wouldn't call it "easy"...I guess the grading can be more subjective than, say, math or economics, but... |