Best university degree for an aspiring archeologist?

TTNsimmer

What is the best degree if someone wants to explore the jungle in selvadorada and become an archeologist. What educational background could benefit such a person?

Mariefoxprice83

I gave one archaeologist Art history as it seemed appropriate, and he took the Selvadorada and Archaeology related electives when they came up.

TTNsimmer

Mariefoxprice83 wrote: »

I gave one archaeologist Art history as it seemed appropriate, and he took the Selvadorada and Archaeology related electives when they came up.

I can see why you you thought that was fitting but in the jungle he would benefit from high logic skill..it helps with the jungle dangers.

Mariefoxprice83

kostasmpi wrote: »

Mariefoxprice83 wrote: »

I gave one archaeologist Art history as it seemed appropriate, and he took the Selvadorada and Archaeology related electives when they came up.

I can see why you you thought that was fitting but in the jungle he would benefit from high logic skill..it helps with the jungle dangers.

Hmm, never thought of that.

TTNsimmer

Yep
, it helps avoid the bats:)

annaliese39

History of course! It is both fitting and focuses on charisma and logic, as well as the research and debate skill which can be useful for any student. Biology seems like a good choice too if you want something less obvious as logic, handiness and gardening can all be helpful in the jungle. If like my sim your sim wants to do archaeology more as a hobby though, then any degree that suits their character could be useful. They could also study electives in archaeology, Selvadoradian culture, handiness etc. and work on fitness or join the sports team.

BlkBarbiegal

Nice to know.

EnkiSchmidt

From a gameplay viewpoint I have no idea, but for roleplaying do not underestimate the importance of painting, writing and photography, perhaps also handyness in addition to logic. There's a good amount of measuring, describing, drawing, comparing and laboratory work in that career.

asimbsim

I've literally just done this with my sim I went for History because it builds logic and charisma, and spread it out over 4 terms so I could take more electives - and tried to do electives in Salvadoradan culture and dance, and handiness, and I had him join the sports team too to build his athletic skill. By the time he graduated his skills were really high, and his ability to deal with all of the jungle issues, chance cards and traps, was really good and he didnt really need anything other than a machete to explore. From a storytelling perspective, I thought History would be a good one because I though he could be exploring which part of history he found most interesting, and he would discover a love of ancient history and focus his life choices from there.

MadameLee

shouldn't this be under "EPs" and not game pack?

Gorand

Jungle is Game pack, so valid here

MadameLee

Gorand wrote: »

Jungle is Game pack, so valid here

but DEGREE is university so it should go in EP?

Chazzzy

Such a bummer they didn’t create a career to go with that pack

Amapola76

Chazzzy wrote: »

Such a bummer they didn’t create a career to go with that pack

I actually prefer that they didn’t. It’s easy enough to register as a self-employed “Archaelogist” which leaves you with a more flexible schedule to actually go to the jungle.

As for the original question, my main archaeologist is currently working on a history degree. Since you can go back for multiple degrees, my head canon for all my sims is that the first degree is an undergrad degree, and every subsequent degree is grad school. So I’m going to have him go back later for an education degree, as most archaeologists IRL are also professors. (For comparison, I’m also going to try to make sure that most of my doctors and lawyers and scientists also get at least two degrees.)

But, I have another archaeologist who is art history all the way (degree plus art critic as a career, with archaeology as a hobby basically) plus another one who I may or may not even send to university, and she’s going to stay self-employed as an archaeologist.

Simmerville

Probably a silly question: Do any degree make a difference if being an Archealogist? I understand thatr certain skills come in handy in the jungle, but would there be any difference between a sim taking a degree (including those useful skills) and a sim just reading up on those skills on his own?

Can relics sell for more if you have a degree? Do you find them more easily? Or do you get a bonus?

Thetford

Aside from these mentioned, Psychology gives you a head start as a professor if you want to do the Dr Jones route.