I generally tell high school students that if they want to learn to think they need to take the hard sciences: math,physics, biology,chemistry. If they want to learn to write they they need to take history or english. If they want to learn to neither think or write then they should take the soft sciences: political science, sociology, psychology.

My major was political science. It grieves me to think how that degree made me utterly incompetent to deal with life and yet how long it took for me to get that junk out of my system.