<p>I want to get into the same line of work that Dan Brown’s epic character is in. What should my major be? Which schools offer the best course to become a symbologist?</p>
<p>Symbology is a fictional academic field. Semiotics is a similar discipline but is still pretty rare(for example, they don’t have Semiotics at Harvard).</p>
<p>You could get the same sort of education by combing courses from history, religion, philosophy, and literature, I imagine.</p>
<p>I’d figure it’d be a lot of history, religion and archaeology.</p>
<p>Well, symbology isn’t exactly fictional. It is, quite simply, the study of symbolism and symbols. It’s fictional in the sense that Langdon studies it, but there are many different things related to symbolism and “symbology” – you could be a linguist, for example, or a cultural anthropologist, an archaeologist, a historian. There’s even a subset of cultural anthropology called “symbolic anthropology.” I think you need to give us a better idea of what it is that attracts you to Langdon’s job, especially those of us who didn’t read The Da Vinci Code or any other Brown novels?</p>
<p>Bigcheese…just go study history at grad school after you complete your undergrad.</p>
<p>I just made this thread to see if it was possible. I’m not really all that interested in being a symbologist (unless I get to embark on cool life-changing adventures that entertain millions of people who read about it/see the movie) ;)</p>
<p>Sorry to all who thought this was for real. I didn’t mean it in the wrong sense :).</p>
<p>if you find the right college, archeology is the way to go</p>
<p>maybe a double major in Art History and Linguistics, and then a Masters in theological studies from Harvard?</p>
<p>SMU is tops for archeology. They even have a 2nd campus in Taos, NM many don’t know about.</p>