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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major. [/quote]

I have a Poli Sci undergrad and a gender studies/policy graduate degree. I think they were incredibly useful, and weirdly my graduate degree might be more helpful. I currently run a consulting agency and both have helped me be a very strategic thinker, able to explore outside viewpoints, and generally understand the world around me. They are both super versatile as well. If my kids were interested, I wouldn't have an issue with these as majors.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major. [/quote]

One of my nieces was a gender studies major. Went to med school, and is currently at Harvard.[/quote]

That's the point. These majors are worthless by themselves, and require going onto advanced degrees to have any point.

The problem is, the vast majority of students taking these majors are not going to medical school or graduate school, not least because they cannot afford it. So they are in-debting themselves for a degree that is unemployable and worthless.

No one fails in these courses. Colleges love them because the cost of instruction is very little (no lab equipment, etc.) and it gives them guaranteed income since students who dropped out of more difficult and worthwhile majors stay at the school instead of dropping out altogether.

They also happen to be the most popular majors, so colleges are graduating boatloads of these majors with no future prospects. Look at the distribution of majors in post universities - these useless majors largely dominate. Meanwhile STEM degrees cull students due to lack of professors.

Public universities should focus on the public utility, not activist struggle sessions and ego-stroking for professors (who themselves went to SLACs and private universities). A single STEM professor hired is worth the investment in 10 professors in these worthless majors.

Note that I didn't list out degrees in Education, Psychology etc., because while they tend to also be on the easy side, they provide valuable training for society. Psychology majors go into counseling and Education majors go into K-12 teaching (although these days they need to get masters and certification in many states).

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Now the right wants to censor entire fields. Freedom![/quote]

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