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There are immense opportunities for an English and literature graduate in government as well as private sector. A graduate in English and Literature can pursue MA in English and Literature and appear for UGC NET exam and apply for Assistant professor in various universities across India. One can also appear for various government exams like SSC, Bank PO, State PSC and Civil Services. Apart from teaching and government services a graduate in English and Literature can go in reporting and Media, Content writing, Sales, Front Office, Advertising and Promotions, Public Relations, Customer Service and Airlines. A management degree after graduation will enhance scope and opportunities.

Sociology covers human behavior, cultures, trends and phenomenon. The scope ends at individual human behavior, psyche and personalities. That's where psychology takes over.
I once had a sociology professor tell me I couldn't put in my research that a participant was upset at my research question, because I wasn't qualified to know if they were angry. As a double major in psychology it was clear the participant was angry. In psychology I could make this distinction, but sociology avoids explaining how the human brain works in social explanations.
Sociologist (also psychologist) George Herbert Mede made an analogy once about studying the trees or the forest to compare sociology and individual human behavior. Although sociology does explain human behavior and the environments influence, psychology tends to focus more on how the brain is affected by these interactions.
In the end, my personal opinion is that sociology has a very large scope and psychology tends to narrow it down a bit.

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Through history subjects, a student can go for teaching line. In geography, a student can join the weather forecasting department, journalism, teaching line, work in the survey department. Further, Masters study in geography gives more job opportunities to aspirants. Overall, both these subject have a huge scope. Both history, and geography are equally relevant. History teaches you about wise people, their thoughts, their actions that lead to victory or failure, and the development of the human race, its thinking, etc. Geography, on the other hand, can help you know about the earth. These courses always comes up with a subject specialisation and each subject offers different prospective and career outcome. Not just pursuing the course will help, but choosing right academic partner also matters. Choosing right academic partner is always a challenge. There are many universities that offer this course, but from my own personal experience, I would suggest Lovely Professional University. LPU proves to be the best academic partner for many students. B.A. From LPU is always talk in town. LPU School of Social Sciences and Languages is among the best language colleges in Punjab and India. Recognizing liberal arts education as the crying need of the global education system, the school exposes its students to theoretical rigour, fieldwork and research, along with social sensitization through opportunities to interact with and learn from the outside world. School of Education, LPU is a leading teacher education institution in northern India. The school offers courses from undergraduate to doctorate level. The courses are recognised by the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) and the state government. The School has an enriched library with a huge stock of books, reference materials and journals (print as well as online), and modern lab facilities to support teaching, learning and research. The school is a life-long member of Global Educational Research Association (GERA), All India Association of Educational Research (AIAER) and Indian Association of Teacher Education (IATE). The School follows the NCTE model curriculum in its academic programmes. It also holds seminars and conferences at national and international levels. After graduating from B.A. Honours from LPU, there are a lot of job opportunities in various industries. I hope this helps. All the Best.

In order to become an IFS Officer, you must to be excel in the most prestigious exam on India I.e., UPSE Exam. There is no specific criteria that about the stream at graduation level. You can pursue any course (Arts, Commerce, or Science). What you just need is to be dedicated about your studies. IFS (Indian Foreign Service) is one of the group A service , whose exam is conducted by UPSC every year . It is the second most preferred service in Civil Service exam after IAS. Your preparation strategy should be foolproof. Keep an eye on the previous years Prelims and Mains papers, like initially read and analyse the previous papers once in 23 days, they will nourish your strategy for pattern of exam and would help you out in understanding the content of questions. Hope you find this helpful.
Best of Luck.

There are many streams within psychology. For studying Psychology at degree level, you should compulsorily choose two subjects at HSC level that is at 11th and 12th level and they are chemistry and biology. These two subjects are mandatory to study a Bachelor's degree in psychology and without them colleges wouldn't often accept students on this program. Therefore, please choose chemistry and biology at school level. This is the first step to get you qualify for a psychology degree.
Secondly, you can choose for colleges that offers you a BA/ B.Sc psychology degree. As part of the psychology degree, there are many internal options that colleges often offer to students and they are counselling psychology, clinical psychology, experimental psychology, environmental psychology, organizational behavior/ organizational psychology, child psychology, education psychology, adult psychology, developmental psychology, forensic psychology, social psychology, marketing psychology and consumer behavior. Depending on the college and their syllabus structure, you may be offered some of the specializations indicated above. This also says you need to find what specialization you like the most and choose only those colleges that offer the specialization.

Teacher is a personality which is highly respective after father and mother in India but due to our weak management many candidate does not want to join this field by their wish they choose this filed when they see that all the other field is closed for them.
Our teacher get less paid salary job is the first reason that they didn't want to came in this field just think One Ph.d candidate are getting 50k per month salary then how this person get motivation who has study more than 35 year and still he or she is getting the job of 50k.
Second is freedom Teacher are tied from different rule by government or by institution in which they are teaching so this make demotivated that they are not free to teach in their own way.
So In India due to less salary, no freedom, more work time even they work on holiday and these teacher are not allowed to teach in outside the campus as tuition bring their motivation down. Less salary and more rule make Teaching not as profession but as a choice.
When our education management system of India change then candidate take teaching as a default career option.

Psychiatrists are doctors who graduate from medical school, they have a year of medical internship, and have 3 years of residency in the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders.
Psychologists have a doctoral degree in an area of psychology, the study of the mind and human behavior. They are not medical doctors. A psychologist can have a PhD in philosophy or a PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology. They do 1-2 years of internship. Unlike psychiatrists, psychologists are also trained in giving psychological tests such as IQ tests or personality tests. Psychiatrists can prescribe medication but psychologist can't.
Both the fields may look alike but are very different from each other and you should pursue a course according to your area of interest.

Political science is a field which deals mostly with practical and empirical aspects (except few topics in political science like classical political theory).
Whereas philosophy is more abstract, normative and prescriptive in orientation.
Philosophy seeks to find answers behind why factor, like why particular phenomenon whether social, political or economic is happening and its roots and origins and endeavors to bring it closer to ideal situation.
Whereas Political Science is the field where one is supposed to engage into disinterested research refraining from any personal prejudices and preferences to explain ongoing political phenomenon.
In terms of wideness and expanse, Philosophy is much broader stream than political science. Philosophy has broad contours touching all fields of humanities right from history, sociology, and economics to culture.

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Arts, Humanity and Commerce are very different branches as Science. Yes, it is difficult to get into Science and Engineering if one doesn't have a pre base. There are lot of examples of people switching from science to arts but not vice versa. This is because the complexity cannot be understood by self.
A person should be sure of what to do while choosing streams. The longer the correct career clicks, the more difficult it is.
Long story short, yes, one can say so that it is difficult to start career in Science when there is no proper background.
But having said this, nothing is impossible, if a person has good mathematics skills it can be easier. But yes, a person should have a basic knowledge of Science and what, why and how a person is going to do should be very clear.
All the best.

The humanities and arts basically consists of subjects like commercial arts, Philosophy, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, statistics, literature and languages, etc. The junior college generally consists anew introduction to all these subjects wherein you can select your choice of major for the next three years of graduation. I will try to expand the career opportunities you can have by choosing any of the subjects.
1. Economics: Data analyst, several options in the banking sector where they have special posts for eco graduates. Basically a corporate 9-5 job would be tailor made for you.
2. Psychology: A therapist, counsellor, advisor etc.
3. Philosophy: Human resource management actually need people from philosophy background. Areas which includes ethics and logical thinking would be great as a career for a philosophy major student.
4. Political science: Get into hardcore politics. It's high time we have seen people who actually know the science and philosophy of politics, practice it.
5. Sociology: A career in government sector which includes family planning, development seems apt for a sociology major.
6. Language and literature: A knack and skill for writing along with passion for it, will take you places with this chosen field.

My dear candidate, Some of the most fascinating and sought-after careers on the market can be found in the humanities. The humanities employment list includes a variety of positions, including: editor Multimedia expert strategist for online marketing archivistanalyst psychologist linguistlawyer data expert in international relations specialist in a foreign language specialist in a foreign language a hospitality expert the social worker artist, director, and graphic designer occasion manager government employee, writer, travel agent educator, technical writer, and human resource professional manager of public relations like an archaeologist.