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Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List

Examples please. How does this course of [expensive] study benifit either the student or society. I'm sure it does...but my neice couldn't find it. For the average Joe, and Hiring Joes everywhere, such a degree really reads "please hire me so I sue you as soon as I can"

Activist as a degree. That's what I'm getting at.
 
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if someone blacked it off the list because of their personal convictions. I hope they cherish their personal convictions when they get sacked for it.
 
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if someone blacked it off the list because of their personal convictions. I hope they cherish their personal convictions when they get sacked for it.

That's what I suspect. I also suspect a cascading data-deletion common to most enterprise databases such that simply re-entering the 'name' of the major will is not enough. It will be fixed but at much expense. Hopefully, the culprit will be found and dealt with. Probably a civil servant so I expect nothing less than a "please don't do that again" reprimand.
 
I've always wondered, what exactly does one with a degree in Women's Studies do after graduating? My neice has a BA in it but returned to college for another BA in communciations. She pretty much had to start all over.

Any clues, anyone?

Why would she have to start all over? Degree concentration only takes two years or less. She doesn't have to re-take the two years of General Education classes she took for her first BA. No one would ever ask her to take English 111, or Math 110 again, for instance.

I do know what I'm talking about. I'm doing it myself, right now. My second BA in communications is only going to take me 1.5 years to earn, and possibly less.

People with a degree can take many jobs unrelated to their degree concentration, usually a professional position. Very often, it's not what you studied, but the fact that you had the tenacity to start something big, do it well, and see it through. Believe it or not, that alone is a highly marketable skill.
 
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I've always wondered, what exactly does one with a degree in Women's Studies do after graduating? My neice has a BA in it but returned to college for another BA in communciations. She pretty much had to start all over.

Any clues, anyone?

Ha. I missed this the first time around. What's your neice going to do for her third degree once she discovers that a degree in "communications" gets her on the fast track to nowhere?

Sorry. It's just that from the graduates I've met I have the distinct impression that "communications" is one of those majors designed for college football players who couldn't hack it in "hard" programs like Sociology or Education.
 
Well, I asked honestly. perhaps you can answer the question. What does one with a degree in Women's Studies do for a living?


A historian who specializes in women's history perhaps?

Maybe some kind of author?

A philosopher?



As far as a Women's Studies major is concerned, I don't see it being applicable to many fields.
 
Examples please. How does this course of [expensive] study benifit either the student or society. I'm sure it does...but my neice couldn't find it. For the average Joe, and Hiring Joes everywhere, such a degree really reads "please hire me so I sue you as soon as I can"

Activist as a degree. That's what I'm getting at.

Until the activists came along, women didn't have a vote.
 
Ha. I missed this the first time around. What's your neice going to do for her third degree once she discovers that a degree in "communications" gets her on the fast track to nowhere?

Sorry. It's just that from the graduates I've met I have the distinct impression that "communications" is one of those majors designed for college football players who couldn't hack it in "hard" programs like Sociology or Education.

I live in a starter market. The newscasters at bigger stations around the country got started here, or in other such starter markets. I'm not used to that--I'm used to the same old guys and gals being on the same old local news for years and years. But here, the faces change regularly. I think I might have a chance at some kind of good job in mass comm.

Anyway, I've only been in communications three days. Don't scare me like that. ;)
 
It honestly wouldn't surprise me if someone blacked it off the list because of their personal convictions. I hope they cherish their personal convictions when they get sacked for it.

I suspect that your right, this will only become really worrying if the parties involved are allowed to get away with it- which would imply some degree of official sanction.

That's what I suspect. I also suspect a cascading data-deletion common to most enterprise databases such that simply re-entering the 'name' of the major will is not enough. It will be fixed but at much expense. Hopefully, the culprit will be found and dealt with. Probably a civil servant so I expect nothing less than a "please don't do that again" reprimand.
That would be enough to prosecute a Civil Servant here- deliberately damaging official data systems is a pretty serious offence.
 
A historian who specializes in women's history perhaps?

Maybe some kind of author?

A philosopher?



As far as a Women's Studies major is concerned, I don't see it being applicable to many fields.
How about a prof to teach other people who take womens studies as a major ....

Charlie (studied them for years, they still confuse me) Monoxide
 
Well, I asked honestly. perhaps you can answer the question. What does one with a degree in Women's Studies do for a living?
A historian who specializes in women's history perhaps?

Maybe some kind of author?

A philosopher?



As far as a Women's Studies major is concerned, I don't see it being applicable to many fields.
From Rob's earlier link to the website, the "bisexuality and how to use it" link:
Annalee Newitz is a freelance writer and a graduate student in the English Department at UC-Berkeley. Currently she is at work on a series of
articles about sex and class in mass culture, and a dissertation on representations of monsters and psychopaths in American pop culture.

Jillian Sandell is a graduate student in the English Department at UC-Berkeley. Her most recent article on John Woo and Hong Kong cinema can be found in _Bright Lights Film Journal_.
Emphases mine. You'd think a grad student in the English department would be writing papers on literature or something like that. I suppose that, as an English major, if you really had an urgent need to write something scholarly about bisexuality, you could try something along the lines of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd: Homosexual and Bisexual Imagery in Herman Melville. But then you'd have to read and digest some really long books, and I suppose not every English grad student is cut out for that.
 
From Rob's earlier link to the website, the "bisexuality and how to use it" link:
Emphases mine. You'd think a grad student in the English department would be writing papers on literature or something like that. I suppose that, as an English major, if you really had an urgent need to write something scholarly about bisexuality, you could try something along the lines of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd: Homosexual and Bisexual Imagery in Herman Melville. But then you'd have to read and digest some really long books, and I suppose not every English grad student is cut out for that.
Hey she wrote in in English, so obviously it's an appropriate topic for an English post-grad. ;)
 
How about a prof to teach other people who take womens studies as a major ....

Charlie (studied them for years, they still confuse me) Monoxide
Actually I have to challenge a little of this, maybe it's because I'm the product of an education system where specialisation begins at 13, narrows to around 3 subjects at 16, and is very tightly focused at 18. My degree subjects (I was unusual in that I did a combined degree, most UK students just take a single subject at university) have very little relevance to my career, and outside of vocational degrees (such as law) I know of very few people who actually use the knowledge they got from an arts degree in their jobs. They do however use the skills. So a degree in "woman's studies" may, in theory, be no more or less useful than a degree in English.
 
Why would she have to start all over? Degree concentration only takes two years or less. She doesn't have to re-take the two years of General Education classes she took for her first BA. No one would ever ask her to take English 111, or Math 110 again, for instance.

Not in physics. There where classes I had to take over at least 3 years becuase of prerequists and trying to take all the 300 level courses you need in one year would be very very hard.
 
Not in physics. There where classes I had to take over at least 3 years becuase of prerequists and trying to take all the 300 level courses you need in one year would be very very hard.
I going to go out on a limb here and guess that very few people with "Women's Studies" degrees are going to return to Cal Berkeley to get their advanced degree in physics.
 
I going to go out on a limb here and guess that very few people with "Women's Studies" degrees are going to return to Cal Berkeley to get their advanced degree in physics.
Yeah- but that's only because physics is designed to subjugate womyn, for example E=MC^2 is a sexist equation, as it elevates C above all other possible speeds. [/po-mo feminist BS]
 
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