Hi, I was just wondering, what are posssible career options of a European Studies major?

And an IS major with Euro and Comm as tracks?

How do you minor in something?

What kind of career track are you targeting? Something specific to ES or something more broad like business, for example?

Definitely something related to ES. A career ES majors are most inclined to.

Off the top of my mind, the ones that directly relate to EUS are the foreign service/diplomatic corps and the academe, to name a few. However, being a liberal arts course, EUS can also open possibilities in other fields as diverse as medicine, law, and business, whichever you prefer. Here's a short paragraph I got from the Holy Cross Website, which I had posted in another thread:

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Students interested in careers in business are encouraged to pursue a variety of majors, taking courses across the curriculum. No one major is appropriate for students interested in entering the business world. The business world is filled with graduates of strong liberal arts programs. The greatest advantage of a liberal arts education is that it teaches you how to think. Rather than providing specific "training", your education prepares you for a lifetime of continued learning. If you have taken advantage of your liberal arts program, you have learned to write well, to think critically, to argue and defend a position and to analyze quantitative information. All HC students benefit from taking courses that provide opportunities to think critically. These kinds of courses are especially important for students hoping to succeed in today's competitive economy. Taking challenging courses, working hard and earning good grades makes the transition to the business world much easier. It's also important to get involved in campus or community activities. Today's employers seek candidates with records of academic achievement and campus leadership. It doesn't matter whether you are involved in athletics, volunteer service, campus ministry or student government, it's the passion for your extracurricular activities that is important. Every good liberal arts program should include courses that are writing intensive and courses that involve quantitative analysis.

thanks a lot! that really helped. I've been getting a lot of discouragements lately. My friends, parents and everybody else pressures me to shift out to a more useful and clear-cut course like management. they say that employment opportunities wont be as good for me even with an "ateneo education" in my resume....
What the heLL! Come what may.....

Hi! my two cents worth...
it really depends on your interests. what do you like doing/getting into? EU Studies can be useful for any field - marketing, market research, foreign service as previously mentioned etc. It would help though if you join a european based company or foreign service assigned or focusing on europe. but again, it depends on your interests.

Unless you're planning to get into a professional career track like CPA, there really is no undergrad course requirement to enter a generic management field. What companies want are graduates who are hardworking, creative, and can demonstrate their willingness to get the job done. This can be demonstrated by getting good grades, taking leadership roles in clubs, and/or participating in civic activities to name a few. URC's marketing department, for example, is filled with people from non-business majors such as IS, Political Science, and Psychology. The same is true for investment banks and consulting firms around the world. Somebody even mentioned before that Carly Fiorina, CEO of HP-Compaq was a Philosophy major. What's really important is what you do with your education and how you position yourself in the job market after you graduate.It would probably help if you took an elective or two in accounting if you really want to understand the basic underpinnings of a business.

The critical thinking and wide learning horizon that you can get from your liberal arts/European Studies major will give you the tools you need for a lifetime of learning. That itself should make your degree worthwhile.

European Studies - How does one do a major in it?

I am appalled by this remarked! This is specially one coming from the Ateneo! If the remarked was from a graduate from UP, well that's excusable, but for someone who graduated from the Ateneo, my, oh my, oh my! - O tempora O moris, quam diu etiam furor iste nos eludet!

I wonder where one's mind was when the course History 101 was taught at the Ateneo. Oh my gus! European Studies is nothing else but WESTERN CIVILIZATION - WESTERN CIVILIZATION - JUDEO-CHRISTIAN THOUGHT - THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT - LUX IN DOMINO!

The Pligrims, The Maryland Settlement, The Continental Congress, The Constitution of the United States, The Civil War, The Spanish-American War,
The Treaty of Paris, Jose P. Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, The Barosoain Congress, the Bill of 1902, the Bill of 1916, The Philippine Administrative Code of 1916, The Thomasites, The Philippine Constitution of 1934, The Commonweath of the Philipines.

Fellow Ateneans, I really wander if the educational system in the Philippines, nay even at the Ateneo has so much deteriorated that one from the Ateneo cannot even have a vague idea of what European Studies is all about.

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