Try-to-see-if-we-can-help-save-the-world Major

I freaking love my major.

You know when I was in high school I was so worried. I was a jack of all trades but a master of none. I was interested in everything but not interested enough in one thing. Choosing a major seemed so restrictive. Even when I ended up deciding on International Relations, I was really worried. I felt like I was closing myself off to other things, but I guessed that's how it worked.

But Peace and Conflict Studies? It introduced me to this beautiful thing called, "interdisciplinary majors."

I'm choosing classes right now and I have such a huge variety of classes to choose from, from Economics, Political Science, and Business classes to Philosophy, Ethnic Studies, and Geography classes.

I plan on taking:

Political Science 126A
International Political Economy
Description: Economic concepts in the study of international political behavior. Political concepts influencing the choice of economic policies.

German c109/Letters and Science C180T
Language and Power
Description: Multidisciplinary explorations into the origins, nature, and exercise of language as social symbolic power, drawing on readings taken from anthropology, social and cultural theory, and critical discourse analysis. Topics include language and myth, the meaning of meaning, the economy of verbal exchanges, perspective and ideology in language, institutional discourse, gender and discourse, and linguistic imperialism.

If I can't get into one of these, I want to get into:

Anthropology 139P
Controlling Processes
Description:This course will discuss key theoretical concepts related to power and control and examine indirect mechanisms and processes by which direct control becomes hidden, voluntary, and unconscious in industrialized societies. Readings will cover language, law, politics, religion, medicine, sex, and gender.

Like, freaking a, doesn't that sound totally rad? And all these clases fulfill my major requirements. Organic Chemistry? Physics? Linear Algebra? Um, how about War!, Politics of a Divided Korea, Bioethics, International Human Rights, and Introduction to International Business?

By the way, my classes that I'm taking now - Global Poverty: Hopes and Challenges in the New Millenium and Korean 10AX - are also classes for my major.

Language classes, classes about current events, people, politics, economics, behavior, war, conflicts, peace, trade, business, corporations, society, and about how we can literally, concretely, immediately and in the coming future actually solve the problems and situations we face in the world today.

:D
I'm the only Berkeley student actually exciting about Tele-Bears (signing up for classes) right now.