Let's talk about your college/general schooling thoughts and experiences. [View All]

[More Than A Feeling]

(people who didn't go to college are most welcome to share their schooling experiences as well!:-))

I'm a political science/economics major, but I really wish I had been sociology instead of poli-sci. It now seems to me like political science is just a subsection of sociology, an application of sociological theory specifically to political systems. I have this awesome sociology professor right now, and his classes are really mind-expanding (I just got out of it in fact). He does a great job of teaching the unspoken assumptions and assumptions of society, and helping you to analyze them as a bigger picture.

For example, the class I am in right now is social policy and social problems, and we just finished learning about the social pathology approach, which treats things like poverty and mental illness as diseases that are paradoxically caused by faulty transmission of morality, or else that society itself is sick, and its values are ruining individuals. It definitely appears to be characteristic of a conservative mindset to use this approach to analyzing society and the world (which is appropriate, because we are told it is the oldest). You just have to listen to the squawking of the fundies for examples galore, particularly regarding gays.

What was your major in college, and what has it done for you? This is a thread for college/other school musing and/or reminiscing.