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MEANINGFUL MAJORS
By Jo Calhoun
“What are you majoring in?” is the first question college students hear wherever they go.
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The major is the academic area that
they focus on during college. Students take courses of increasing difficulty and specialization in their major, sometimes culminating in a thesis or capstone project senior year.
All schools, large and small, offer a wide range of majors. Majors may be very specific, with the goal of preparing students for a certain profession — for example, hospitality management, elementary education or aerospace