The University of the Philippines has created an elective course about
Taylor Swift.
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/video/2024/03/01/university-offering-taylor-swift-course/
Courses of minimal academic merit are, of course, a well-established >"feature" of university and college curricula with many people
completing degrees in such subjects as Black Studies, Gay Studies, Folk >Dancing, and any number of others. (Most of those graduates will be
paying for those degrees for decades a bit at a time from their
earnings as a Starbucks barrista or burger flipper at McDonald's.)
Let's just call this one more nail in the coffin....
When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick
to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll >wager!
On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:17:50 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
The University of the Philippines has created an elective course about
Taylor Swift.
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/video/2024/03/01/university-offering-taylor-swift-course/
Courses of minimal academic merit are, of course, a well-established
"feature" of university and college curricula with many people
completing degrees in such subjects as Black Studies, Gay Studies, Folk
Dancing, and any number of others. (Most of those graduates will be
paying for those degrees for decades a bit at a time from their
earnings as a Starbucks barrista or burger flipper at McDonald's.)
Let's just call this one more nail in the coffin....
When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick
to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll
wager!
A lot of people look askance at university departments with "Studies"
in their name.
When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick
to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll
wager!
A lot of people look askance at university departments with "Studies"
in their name.
Should they ALL have "Studies" in their names? Aren't they there for
the students to study?
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:42:49 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
I don't see why - I took mostly history (a personal favorite),When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick
to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll >>>> wager!
A lot of people look askance at university departments with "Studies"
in their name.
Should they ALL have "Studies" in their names? Aren't they there for
the students to study?
mathematics, chemistry and physics not things like Womens' Studies,
Black Studies etc where there is typically a "party line" and god help
the student who tries to divert from it.
On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:07:31 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:42:49 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
I don't see why - I took mostly history (a personal favorite),When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick >>>>> to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll >>>>> wager!
A lot of people look askance at university departments with "Studies"
in their name.
Should they ALL have "Studies" in their names? Aren't they there for
the students to study?
mathematics, chemistry and physics not things like Womens' Studies,
Black Studies etc where there is typically a "party line" and god help
the student who tries to divert from it.
Those 'Studies' classes in things like that didn't even exist at the
schools I went to. Mostly because instead of a general University I
went to schools focused on technology. So the closest we got to that
was with the Industrial Management school. Otherwise it was Computers, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace and such. Not
much room for things like Women's Studies or Blacks Studies.
On 3/6/2024 12:30 AM, shawn wrote:
On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:07:31 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:42:49 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
I don't see why - I took mostly history (a personal favorite),When are the universities going to stop teaching this fluff and stick >>>>>> to training serious people for serious careers? Not any time soon, I'll >>>>>> wager!
A lot of people look askance at university departments with "Studies" >>>>> in their name.
Should they ALL have "Studies" in their names? Aren't they there for
the students to study?
mathematics, chemistry and physics not things like Womens' Studies,
Black Studies etc where there is typically a "party line" and god help
the student who tries to divert from it.
Those 'Studies' classes in things like that didn't even exist at the
schools I went to. Mostly because instead of a general University I
went to schools focused on technology. So the closest we got to that
was with the Industrial Management school. Otherwise it was Computers,
Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace and such. Not
much room for things like Women's Studies or Blacks Studies.
But one still studies those subjects, so why are only "social" sciences >termed "studies"?
Those 'Studies' classes in things like that didn't even exist at the
schools I went to. Mostly because instead of a general University I
went to schools focused on technology. So the closest we got to that
was with the Industrial Management school. Otherwise it was Computers, >Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace and such. Not
much room for things like Women's Studies or Blacks Studies.
Because there's more rigor assumed in the hard sciences while the
social sciences are merely studies.
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