Too many choices!

[sanantone]

Liberal Studies and Humanities are almost on the same level. Even though Humanities is more focused, I actually think a Liberal Studies degree could be more flexible. Just think of yourself at a job interview. With a liberal arts degree, you can say that you took this or that course in science, math, history, social science, etc. With a humanities degree, all you can say is that you studied music, art, philosophy, and a bunch of other subjects that aren't really useful outside of academia and the arts. You can study communications and journalism in a humanities program, but you might as well just get a degree in those since the other humanities subjects aren't useful. I think that Communications is a huge step up from liberal studies and humanities. I've seen plenty of marketing, public relations, and journalism-type job openings asking for a degree in communications. I did a search on Indeed for job ads mentioning "humanities" in my area. Only one page came up and most of the jobs on that page mentioned "serving humanity" and didn't ask for a humanities degree. I did a search for "liberal arts" and only got two pages of results. Most of the jobs were for deans of liberal arts colleges and "liberal arts" was only mentioned because the dean would oversee liberal arts programs. Then, I did a search for "communications." Well, I got a ton of results for job ads asking for "communication skills;" but, after going through a few pages, I was able to pick out quite a few jobs that asked for communications degrees. Actually, it's best to just search for jobs asking for "journalism" degrees and you'll usually find that "communications" is listed, too.

I could have gotten a degree in psychology or criminal justice, but I opted for social science. It was a little too difficult to quickly fill the requirements for the criminal justice degree and I didn't want to take statistics or research methods for psychology. So yeah, I was lazy and just combined the criminal justice, sociology, and psychology credits I had into a social science degree. I think it'll all work out because most social service and criminal justice jobs ask for all of those subjects or something that is social/behavioral science related.