This is returned by $.get() :
<select class="nmsubject" name="subjectList"><option></option><option>Accounting</option><option>Agriculture
</option><option>Animal Maintenance</option><option>Business</option><option>Diseases</option><option
>Equine</option><option>Fiction</option><option>Films</option><option>Forestry</option><option>Horsemanship
</option><option>Horticulture</option><option>Maps</option><option>Media (Cd)</option><option>Media
(Dvd)</option><option>Physics</option><option>Reptiles</option></select>
var subject = $("select.nmsubject:selected").text();
alert(subject);