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Can people please stop saying majoring and minoring for degrees, this isn't America.

There are some degrees with 'and' and some with 'with'. You do not major and minor in the UK, stop getting your life advice from American TV shows. Take the time to actually research what you want to study instead of paying attention to a system that isn't yours.
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Reply 1
Original post by Glassapple
There are some degrees with 'and' and some with 'with'. You do not major and minor in the UK, stop getting your life advice from American TV shows. Take the time to actually research what you want to study instead of paying attention to a system that isn't yours.


Doesn't effect you, don't get worked up :dontknow:
How is it an issue tho
Original post by Mess.
Doesn't effect you, don't get worked up :dontknow:

Original post by wonderuss
How is it an issue tho

It just really annoys me how ignorant a lot of the student population is. If you're serious about spending 3 or more years of your life studying something you should at least bother to find out what it actually is.
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Reply 4
Original post by wonderuss
How is it an issue tho


Because words are supposed to mean things


There's not much in this world that really f***ing irritates me, but England adopting Americanisms is one of them :angry:
How do you know they’re not American? This site is for everyone to use including Americans.
We voted to take back control, not become the 51st state. The only major and minor we should have at university is the keys of works played by orchestras and bands.

That's obviously either geared towards international students to make the university seem more understandable and attractive, or Leicester has got so sick of people's limited understanding of how degrees work they've given in and copped out. It's really not a standard UK practice.
Original post by Rainfall
How do you know they’re not American? This site is for everyone to use including Americans.

The vast majority of them talk about majoring and minoring at UK universities.
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when i was applying for degrees back in the day i.e. 4 yrs ago aberystwyth had majors and minors i remmeber enquiring what they meant
Reply 11
I don't think I've heard anyone use those words except from Americans.
Original post by It's****ingWOODY
There's not much in this world that really f***ing irritates me, but England adopting Americanisms is one of them :angry:


Interesting that Americanism itself was coined by John Witherspoon, a Founding Father of the United States.
American degree programmes are usually four years long; the extra year is to give them time to let it set in that not focusing on a single specific subject but rather 'majoring in Psychology and minoring in *insert irrelevant and unconnected subject here*' is a bad idea... :biggrin:

Our cousins across the Atlantic need to pick a subject area and specialise rather than spending 2/3 of their 4 years of college essentially sitting on the fence, studying irrelevant modules to their final 'major'.
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Original post by Glassapple
There are some degrees with 'and' and some with 'with'. You do not major and minor in the UK, stop getting your life advice from American TV shows. Take the time to actually research what you want to study instead of paying attention to a system that isn't yours.


... You sure you’re not addressing the American students on this forum?

Ohhhhhh you’re the one who made a thread about how people ask stupid questions. If TSR is too triggering, maybe it’s time to not use it? 🤔
Original post by UWS
I don't think I've heard anyone use those words except from Americans.

Original post by FloralHybrid
... You sure you’re not addressing the American students on this forum?

Ohhhhhh you’re the one who made a thread about how people ask stupid questions. If TSR is too triggering, maybe it’s time to not use it? 🤔

I'm very sure because I know how to read. 90% of the time it's British people talking about going to a British university.
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also people wanting to study at ‘Oxford Law’ - doesn’t exist.
Yeah, but what are the freshmen going to talk about in their dorms when the excitement of their school prom is nothing but a distant memory?
Reply 18
Original post by moonkatt
Yeah, but what are the freshmen going to talk about in their dorms when the excitement of their school prom is nothing but a distant memory?


They'll talk about going greek and their GCSE GPAs.

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I've never heard someone from england saying those words, even on this forum

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