Exactly! How many job ads have you ever seen for African Studiers, requiring a degree in African Studies?
How many job as have you seen for Women Studiers, requiring a degree in Women’s Studies?
There are some fields, which while they appeal to some people based on their interests, are completely useless in the job market.
If you are interested in Women’s Studies, go study women on your own time, not in a college course. Same with African studies and all the rest of those types of fields.
And don’t have the unrealistic expectation that employers are eager to hire graduates with such degrees. That’s a real downer for this generation, I’m sure.
“Exactly! How many job ads have you ever seen for African Studiers, requiring a degree in African Studies?
How many job as have you seen for Women Studiers, requiring a degree in Women’s Studies?”
You are mistaken. There is plenty of opportunity as a community organizer, man hater, and enviro activist. Our dear leader and his henchmen are evidence of the potential in these areas.
Unfortunately, liberal arts majors are not the only ones with difficulty in this economy. Business students even in finance are struggling. The war on the private sector has worked superbly. This war and the reduced barriers to move work have made life very difficult for new graduates in many fields.
My Nephew is just writing his theses for his PHD in Philosophy. The only thing he’ll be able to do is stay in Academia!
Well, most jobs in which those degrees are directly applicable are in academia, with the exception of a few nonprofits who might hire entry-level workers. Problem is, the vast majority of undergrad liberal arts majors (and I’m an English major myself, so I know of what I speak) don’t have the analytical skills or the discipline to pursue full-time graduate studies. IMHO, programs like African Studies or Women’s Studies should only be offered as minors, or perhaps as components of an interdisciplinary program combined with more marketable skills. If I were a CEO looking to open a branch in Nairobi, for instance, then a business or econ major with coursework in African Studies could be a very useful consultant. But just having African Studies alone isn’t gonna get you very far.
The perfect qualification for Government Work, which soon, ala Greece, will be the ONLY work.
The "African Studies Programs" (Majored in by Michelle Obama at PRINCETON,) are laughable and almost without any academic merit.
In a word, they are the application of a very watered down version of the Marxist dialectic to race relations. I recommend this field be renamed "Obamstudies." This is what Barak Hussein Obama Junior Studied and why he knows absolutely nothing about anything and has mastered only the reading of his masters' words from two teleprompters, twitching his gaze from one to the other, as a boa constrictor viewing his next meal.
Studying women is VERY demanding and challenging, by the time I developed an inkling of understanding of the subject I was too old to benefit from my knowledge and now I don’t even have a sheepskin to show for it.
Exactly, my daughter majored in Physics and minored in Business. She is currently working on her senior thesis and then she will be finished in August. She’s afraid that she won’t be able to find a job. She read this and kept asking me, is my degree a worthless degree? She will be moving to San Diego soon, hopefully she will find something.