@JBStillFlying I am really puzzled by your association of the word “Studies” with pre-professionalism. I associate it with a near utter lack of practicality, since it usually indicates a bunch of disparate methodologies directed at a somewhat diffuse object of study defined geographically – East Asian Studies, African Studies – or by identity politics – Women’s Studies, African-American Studies. There’s nothing pre-professional about it.
@JHS - couldn’t agree more on that most of what you just listed! What I said was ’ anything with a professional school name followed by “studies”’ (paraphrasing myself here). So Media Studies, Legal Studies, Public Policy Studies, etc. I suppose you can include Film Studies in that as well, but not sure.