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    Weird college majors

    When I was in college we joked about folks with meaningless majors like political "science" and social "ecology". Things have gotten a lot weirder since then. Here are some of the more bizarre courses of study one can pursue today.

    Imagining what might be taught in "EcoGastronomy" is downright terrifying. Does the guy who gets a degree in "Amusement Park Engineering" put the letters 'APE' after his name ? Can you imagine the noise at the commencement of the Bagpiping majors ?

    https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/weird-college-majors/

    Biomimicry
    Cannabis Biology
    Puppet Arts
    Viticulture Fermentation Science
    Bicycle Design
    Digital Mapping
    Bakery Science
    EcoGastronomy
    Costume Technology
    Egyptology and Assyriology
    Comic Art
    Popular Music
    Amusement Park Engineering
    Foresight

    https://thecollegepost.com/most-unus...llege-degrees/

    Citrus Science
    Memeology
    Sexuology Studies
    Mortuary Science
    Liesure Studies
    Popular Culture
    Storytelling
    Poultry Science
    Toy Design
    Astrobiology
    Cryptozoology
    Animal Psychology

    https://www.fastweb.com/career-plann...college-majors

    Adventure Education
    Auctioneering
    Bagpiping
    Costume Technology
    Diving Business and Technology
    Exercise and Movement Sciences
    Farrier Science
    Nautical Archaeology
    Turfgrass Science

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    What no postgraduate studies for woke ology, social instragraming, vegan phycology, interactive tic-toc methodology? I'm shocked

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    Bob Denver had a degree in political science. He put it to good use...

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    Quote Originally Posted by IntheGroove View Post
    Bob Denver had a degree in political science. He put it to good use...
    I think that Bob was a lot smarter that most of the idiots we have in in politics these days!!! Smart people, like Bob, acting stupid are not nearly as dangerous as a bunch of stupid people trying to act smart!!


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    A stretch...

    Viticulture Fermentation Science = Enology (wine making studies)

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    Probably would have done better with a forestry degree. Never mind. I thought you said John Denver lol
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    Sme of those might actually get you a real job.

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    Some might get you a real job....while years of loan payments are guaranteed.
    Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs, The Way I Heard It, The Story Behind The Story) has featured examples of high school dropouts, enrolling in trade school, ascending into 6 figure incomes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
    Some might get you a real job....while years of loan payments are guaranteed.
    Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs, The Way I Heard It, The Story Behind The Story) has featured examples of high school dropouts, enrolling in trade school, ascending into 6 figure incomes.
    Cryptozoology is one of my favorites. It's defined as...

    the search for and study of animals whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the Loch Ness monster and the yeti

    Yes folks, you can get a college degree studying "stuff that doesn't exist". As the dumbing down of the population continues and high schools continue to focus on sports and woke-ish agendas, business recruiters realized they have to demand a college degree as some insurance that the individual can sort of read and write.

    The colleges quickly realized they can make really big bucks selling diplomas, not useful, post-graduate job directed, education. Make the courses trivial so any teenage airhead can graduate and any jerk can teach and your profits soar.

    As a bonus, the system is self-sustaining. The only place a cryptozoologist is going to find employment is teaching at a college that does not yet have a cryptozoology department.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    Cryptozoology is one of my favorites.
    The colleges quickly realized they can make really big bucks selling diplomas, not useful, post-graduate job directed, education. Make the courses trivial so any teenage airhead can graduate and any jerk can teach and your profits soar.

    As a bonus, the system is self-sustaining. The only place a cryptozoologist is going to find employment is teaching at a college that does not yet have a cryptozoology department.
    Facet of profit was evident, oh I don't know, in around about infinite number of cases; and singularly limited potentially employment opportunities; the one bright spot of a institution without program 'X' that in their curriculum has happened to me personally.

    After applying to adjunct industrial arts positions locally (they had no program) then dropped it after examining capital costs of building a metals lab. Saw the slope before they did, during interview as panel asked generally 'how important certain processes were' and I answered "where and how do you think all this stuff comes to be?"

    But just weeks ago, hauled almost 40 chem and/ or bio lab cabinets home bought from Habitat-Restore, that a mere community college saw fit to remodel. Very nice oak plywood cases, solid oak faces, sliding door frames (suspended on wheels, running in tracks), others are hinged, all with glass, cabinet locks, adjustable shelving and hardware. Guesstimating they averaged $250+ apiece originally, think I did OK for $10 each?
    Going to ring interior perimeter with them, hung on French cleats; that I learned about in high school shop class.

    I'm resisting urge looking into equipment seen needed in a cryptozoology lab and classroom...........
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