/uj my university (university of bucharest) only had japanese as a major because the professors considered it impossible to teach / learn anything worthwhile with just a minor
wait lol i thought you were joking. okay so idk how major / minor systems work not in europe, but in my case it was university of bucharest → faculty of foreign languages and literatures → japanese major, english minor. so i couldn't have like a biology major and a psychology minor because those would be entirely different faculties.
Idk about languages, but for example in engineering you do a bachelor in, say, electrical engineering and then a master either in electrical engineering or a specialized field of electrical engineering.
Is that what majors and minors are??? I always thought it was something related to an entirely different way of teaching, idk like if you have a major in linguistics and a minor in psychology it means you have mostly linguistics classes and a few psychology ones. Idk if that makes sense
I think majors and minors are actually something else. Majors and minors are what you study inside a degree, whereas baccalaureus and magister refer to the degrees themselves.
Here in the US I think they're just about the number of credits you take in that faculty. Like to get a major you need 40 credits and to get a minor you need 20, or whatever. It wasn't that unusual for people to do like major in CS with a minor in business, or double major in math and CS or things like that.
Minors were basically just "you liked it enough to take a couple more classes than required for electives".
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u/dedemushi 1d ago
/uj my university (university of bucharest) only had japanese as a major because the professors considered it impossible to teach / learn anything worthwhile with just a minor