RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
Seriously, unless I plan to become a jazz musician as a career, how is taking a course on the history of jazz going to help me make a living in America???
I thought school, at every level, was suppose to teach you how to make a living to prosper and survive, WITHOUT depending on the government or anyone else.
- Posted by tommybrownnc
Again, you take 30-40 classes during college. If you major in one course of study, you take about 10 classes in that field. The stuff you learn in those classes most likely help you the most in your future occupation. That leaves 20-30 courses to broaden your horizons and learn other things that might benefit you down the road whether that be financially/spiritually/emotionally/etc.
What you fail to comprehend is that while you claim to have taken computer science courses (soon to be out or in sourced by people from India BTW, they work for 60% of American pay in my experience) the major might be worth something. Having a major filled with the classes above is completely and positively worthless. Trying to defend it is silly.
The question wasn't whether they deserve to exist as majors. It was whether they deserve to exist at all. I'm defending the fact that a variety of different courses is important. It doesn't mean everyone that enrolls at a college needs to take every class that's offered or that they need to major in every major invented.
Yeah, you have me pegged. I majored in Computer Science so I don't have the ability to find a job because Indian outsourcing has taken away all our jobs. You're as dumb talking about things other than Duke as you are talking about Duke.
There are jobs out there boy! If you would get off these boards and actually put forth some effort you might find one. Lazy azz! I bet Indians arent on the computer like our are all day! Smh..........
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
Again, you take 30-40 classes during college. If you major in one course of study, you take about 10 classes in that field. The stuff you learn in those classes most likely help you the most in your future occupation. That leaves 20-30 courses to broaden your horizons and learn other things that might benefit you down the road whether that be financially/spiritually/emotionally/etc.
- Posted by 903 Rogue G I Joe
What you fail to comprehend is that while you claim to have taken computer science courses (soon to be out or in sourced by people from India BTW, they work for 60% of American pay in my experience) the major might be worth something. Having a major filled with the classes above is completely and positively worthless. Trying to defend it is silly.
The question wasn't whether they deserve to exist as majors. It was whether they deserve to exist at all. I'm defending the fact that a variety of different courses is important. It doesn't mean everyone that enrolls at a college needs to take every class that's offered or that they need to major in every major invented.
Yeah, you have me pegged. I majored in Computer Science so I don't have the ability to find a job because Indian outsourcing has taken away all our jobs. You're as dumb talking about things other than Duke as you are talking about Duke.
There are jobs out there boy! If you would get off these boards and actually put forth some effort you might find one. Lazy azz! I bet Indians arent on the computer like our are all day! Smh..........
Finding work is not a problem. My problem is finding good people to do the work I get - even in such a "down" economy.
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
What you fail to comprehend is that while you claim to have taken computer science courses (soon to be out or in sourced by people from India BTW, they work for 60% of American pay in my experience) the major might be worth something. Having a major filled with the classes above is completely and positively worthless. Trying to defend it is silly.
- Posted by Krzyzewskiectomy
The question wasn't whether they deserve to exist as majors. It was whether they deserve to exist at all. I'm defending the fact that a variety of different courses is important. It doesn't mean everyone that enrolls at a college needs to take every class that's offered or that they need to major in every major invented.
Yeah, you have me pegged. I majored in Computer Science so I don't have the ability to find a job because Indian outsourcing has taken away all our jobs. You're as dumb talking about things other than Duke as you are talking about Duke.
There are jobs out there boy! If you would get off these boards and actually put forth some effort you might find one. Lazy azz! I bet Indians arent on the computer like our are all day! Smh..........
Finding work is not a problem. My problem is finding good people to do the work I get - even in such a "down" economy.
Do you play Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones?
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
Studing and learning about "other things" is part of your growth as a student. The problem seem to be offering these types of classes as majors. Normally I would say African American Studies, Communications, Film Studies, etc. However, if you are going to play pro football, or basketball and these courses require less work, and you're not a very good student, and since football and basketball are not majors, then why not major in these courses? Football and basketball bring in a lot of money for the colleges. They help to fund the non-money making sports that many other students play. No school in the ACC is going back to the days of student first athlete. If they do, they won't last. If the goal is to go to student first then athlete, then it would be best for them to leave the ACC and not focusing on rivalry or athletics but just academics.
- Posted by REDRAGE
This post got me to wondering; did these studies/courses 'evolve' over the years to help keep athletes eligible to play sports? Just thinking out loud.
No Tommy. These "social" courses such as Black Studies (or whatever they choose to call it now), or Womens Studies, were designed and implemented by professors possessing a a particular worldview. They were designed to indoctrinate people toward these same worldviews. If you want to find out for yourself, simply audit one of them. It will amaze you what passes for education in today's universities. The prof gives you his/her beliefs as if they are the gospel, and pity the poor soul who offers a differnt opinion. They did evolve into classes that would be easy grades for athletes, so long as they went along with the agenda, but that was not the intention for the courses.
In my opinion, no course that is used as a political and/or social tool designed to promote the views of a certain group, should be provided by a university funded by the state.
It is courses such as these that leave major employers bewildered by the lack of ability and knowledge many college graduates have these days.
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
Why would I post my real name?
Because posting your "great idea" (to investigate all AA courses nationwide) anonymously to an internet message board won't get you very far. You'll just have a lot of other anonymous ABCers agreeing with you LOL.
And I didn't suggest posting it HERE, but to a major media outlet like the Charlotte Observer, or the N&O, etc. Reading comprehension: not your strong suit.
But hey...if you're scared, you're scared. We get that.
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
If they get rid of AA studies they will just develop another curriculum to keep students academically eligible, or to increase graduation ratios. Anthropological studies, woman studies, exercise science, art history, sociology, political science, classical linguistics and so on and so on....................
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
Many liberal arts universities have a class on Harry Potter. Many lib arts uni's have classes on the Occupy Movement. Seriously ..... the Occupy Movement.
RE: AA studies departments need to be investigated nationwide!
I'm going to create a class about trollers on the internet
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