College Home Economics and Kinesiology Majors

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Anonymous wrote:Our state universities should be training out citizens to be productive members of society, not ivory tower nonsense.

Good Will Hunting has the line that the Harvard education is available at any library— so get your kid a library card and send them trade school and presto, productive member of society if think what’s taught at colleges doesn’t do this now. Or tell your kids not to take the classes you won’t pay for. For the rest of the kids, part of college to make their own decisions on what to take.

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With the money being poured into the Wellness industry, Kinesiology is nothing to scoff at.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of kinesiology majors go to Physical therapy school.

Or become personal trainers.

I know one who sent to med school and is now a pediatrician.

Isn’t how the human body works a little bit important?

If you don’t like it, don’t study it.

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Kinesiology major is an excellent precursor for PT school. However, if you don't go onto PT/OT/Med school, it is not a very useful major. The jobs you will get will be low paying and often you could have gotten there with "training" not a 4 year degree. But it is an excellent degree for pre-PT/Med

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Senator Marsha Blackburn was a home economics major. It’s a subject that used to be taught in every school, so it makes sense that state flagships would have had it as a major.

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Anonymous wrote:How would you think kinesiology is not an academic pursuit? What?? The human body is very complex.

But what do you do with that degree?

I know someone that majored in kinesiology from UofM. They had a hard time finding a job, any job. Eventually they went back to school and studied something else. Kinesiology leaves you pretty much a gym teacher, personal trainer, or in prep for getting a masters degree in something somewhat related: PA school, OT, PT

Best person used for painful PT told me their best background for current job was their kinesiology major and for that I am beyond thankful. And why is being gym teacher or trainer being written above as bad?

K is an expensive degree for being a trainer, when you can achieve the same thing (and low paying job) with a much shorter training course. Your kid with a K degree who becomes a trainer will be working alongside others who took the quicker and much cheaper route. Nothing wrong with a Kinesiology degree, but you must know going in that it's a precursor to PT/OT/Medical School/PA. If you don't get into those, the options are not that exciting or well paying.
That being said, it is one of the best degrees for pre-PT as you are learning exactly what you need to

[Anonymous]

C students have to go somewhere. I'd rather they have a college degree.

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(and some truly have a known path forward, with a passion in these majors, and are not C students)

[Anonymous]

Having a college degree is always better.

No matter what you do. Told my kids they can be anything. Be a plumber, tradesmen, artist, anything. But first you get your college degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Having a college degree is always better.

No matter what you do. Told my kids they can be anything. Be a plumber, tradesmen, artist, anything. But first you get your college degree.

Sure, as long as they aren’t incurring debt for it. If Bank of Dad is paying, yes absolutely get a degree. If they are taking out loans, you better have a clear career path that requires and degree and will make you enough money to pay it back and live comfortably

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I think the point about a public university is that it has to offer a broader spectrum of courses, academic AND vocational, whereas the SLACs and Ivy League type colleges can afford to be more academically niche.

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Anonymous wrote:Fifty years ago, University of Maryland, College Park, had a "College of Human Ecology"? That was a euphemism for "Home Economics". They still have Family Science and Kinesiology majors in the School of Public Health. Other universities have them too.

HYP schools do not offer these majors. IMO, those majors are not appropriate in a publicly subsidized institution of higher learning. You could split hairs about overlap among humanities departments, or criticize vocational aspects of business education. But Home Ec and Kinesiology not fundamental scholarly disciplines. Why the hell do we even have them in universities?

Every school should have these as mandatory courses for both genders just like they should make it mandatory to learn CPR, wound dressing, diet balance, taxes, tire change etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Fifty years ago, University of Maryland, College Park, had a "College of Human Ecology"? That was a euphemism for "Home Economics". They still have Family Science and Kinesiology majors in the School of Public Health. Other universities have them too.

HYP schools do not offer these majors. IMO, those majors are not appropriate in a publicly subsidized institution of higher learning. You could split hairs about overlap among humanities departments, or criticize vocational aspects of business education. But Home Ec and Kinesiology not fundamental scholarly disciplines. Why the hell do we even have them in universities?

Every school should have these as mandatory courses for both genders just like they should make it mandatory to learn CPR, wound dressing, diet balance, taxes, tire change etc.

In college?

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Kinesiology is a great undergraduate degree for PT graduate school (which, by the way, is now a PhD program...you can't get a job with a master's anymore)...and I know two med students who majored in kinesiology as well. It's basically anatomy/physiology and can be a great degree, especially if combination with other majors (e.g., psychology).

I'd prefer my kid major in that than in a lot of other disciplines.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of kinesiology majors go to Physical therapy school.

Or become personal trainers.

I know one who sent to med school and is now a pediatrician.

Isn’t how the human body works a little bit important?

If you don’t like it, don’t study it.

+1
Kinesiology major is an excellent precursor for PT school. However, if you don't go onto PT/OT/Med school, it is not a very useful major. The jobs you will get will be low paying and often you could have gotten there with "training" not a 4 year degree. But it is an excellent degree for pre-PT/Med

Good strength and conditioning coaches can make big-time money working for college or pro sports teams--or even with individual athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:Kinesiology leaves you pretty much a gym teacher, personal trainer, or in prep for ... something somewhat related.

That reminds me of an old joke - those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym.

But teachers have educational credentials.

There is a role for home economics and exercise classes in high school, but I would not put them in a Research 1 flagship state university. Nobody forces you to take those classes, but our taxes subsidize it. The winning answer was that C-students need a major where they can get A's and B's.