Degree subjects in the USA?
I´m a university student from Argentina, and I have noticed that some people in my country often do a second degree after their first one in only two years , as the second degree is related to the first one and they don´t have to sit for certain subjects because they have already done so in their first degree. For example, if you study Law you can, once you´ve finished your degree , study to be a public translator in a foreign language and you just focus on the linguistic part of the degree and are exempted from the Law subjects, since you already studied them in your Law degree. When two degrees have the same subject, we call them "correlative subjects". E g :" European History is a correlative subject in Sociology and Literature" ...is it the same in the States? Do you also call them "correlative " subjects?
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We don't call them "correlative subjects" in the US, but it is possible, after completing a bachelors degree in the US, to get a second bachelors in another subject - be it in a related subject or not. In the US, bachelors degrees take four years to complete. If you got your bachelors, and went back for a second bachelors, the second bachelors would only take you two years or less, because you'd have already completed a lot of your "non-major" general requirements (math, English, history, etc.) as part of your first degree. In your second bachelors, you'd only focus on your major subjects.
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Not really. We have the term "cognate discipline" to mean a related subject, e.g. history and political science. But there is very little tradition of taking a second undergraduate degree. Regulations from university to university would differ widely. In the worst case you would have to start over entirely. At best you would receive maybe up to half credit, i.e. the first two years of a four year degree. Or you might be able to get credit for some introductory-level requirements.
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