'Woke' college majors threatened under controversial Florida bill

. . . And? So what? UX = User experience, if you want to look into it at some point. Very lucrative career path, regardless of your lack of familiarity with it. Sorry.

 

The idea that the main value of a university education is employability is a relatively new one. Don't people contribute to society in all sorts of ways apart from how they are employed?

 

Department of Labor certainly can present a list of what majors are likely to create a middle class or better income. A lot of smart kids are better off learning a skill throughout the job training.

Kids get it drummed into their heads that you need college to succeed. If you have the interest and the aptitude for the right field, yes. If the loan underwriters had any faith in what they were selling, they wouldn't make it bankruptcy proof.

 

Don't forget Beyonce. There's a college, and I'm serious, that offers a course on Beyonce. Also, all those race baiting courses need to go, they shouldn't even be an option because they shouldn't be there.

 

Where majors aren't remunerative enough in a job-competative environment, enrollment fixes itself.

Not everyone is best served by going to college, but in general, college grads get much higher earnings. And that includes Arts and Humanities grads!

 

Nope, sounds to me like they are quite free to still go for the major's that they want. Just that if its not on the approved list then they have to pay for it themselves rather than getting it paid through the tax payers.

BTW, depending on what is on their "list" I may or may not disagree with it. I have previously advocated that if the State is going to pay for higher education then it should ONLY be for STEM related fields and psychology. Social sciences (excepting psychology) and liberal arts should NOT be paid for with taxpayer dollars.

 

:shrugs: Government dictating where money goes happens all the time. It's actually part of the job description.

 

Do you think a degree in economics should be included?

 

Humanities has the highest acceptance rate of all majors into med school.

 

You can't answer my question? Please try.

Once again ... why not just study the field in which you will ultimately work? What is the point in putting yourself further down the list of candidates by having an unrelated degree (because sure as eggs, others will have a relevant degree)?

The only explanation is that your chosen degree was recreational. You did it because it was personally fascinating, like a hobby. You didn't do it for the purposes of securing work. If securing work was your goal, you would have chosen the field in which you would work - obviously.

 

We don't do medicine that way in this country. It's undergrad here - and seven years of straight medicine.

Which is why our medicine program is so well regarded internationally. We don't get halfwits who shuffle in sideways from sociology.

 

What in hell does it even mean? Weasel Speak, is what it sounds like. Probably marketing or similar, at a guess.

More importantly, they are not employed as Psychologists. Why not just study marketing?

 

There are very, very few colleges that even offer non-grad degrees in UX. When we hire people with undergrad degrees, we're looking for people with psychology or anthropology degrees (if we want someone more research focused), English/Comms/Journalism (if we want someone more content focused) or something more graphics-focused if we want a designer. I've hired for roles like this. None of these degrees put any of these candidates further down the line. Much to the contrary. Maybe stop commenting on stuff that you know nothing about?

 

Because it isn't a marketing role. And your ignorance regarding the industry won't change the fact that it exists, it's a rather large and lucrative industry, and that every major tech company is hiring for it.

 

You can't tell me every kid who majors in Psychology is wanting to do that very particular job, because that's incredibly unlikely. I'll wager the majority choose Psych because it seems less 'boring' than science and because it's easy to get in to. They probably think it makes them seem 'compassionate', as well. It's a soft degree, no matter how you cut it. It turns out marketers and salespeople, not healers.

 

Takes the woketard route of a critical race gender studies degree -> four years later has a degree no one outside of woketard 'academia' regards as useful and also has a ton of debt -> whines on social media about how 'rich people' are keeping them down and should pay their debt however still has enough money to afford round trip airline tickets, hotel accommodations, and gallons of booze, for spring break.

 

UX is to broad of a degree. "I create meaningful interactions between people and the products and services they encounter" WTF does that mean? From Santa Monica College. The user experience (UX or UE) is how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system or service. It includes a person's perceptions of utility, ease of use, and efficiency. From Wikiepedia. That tells me that this is a degree that can easily be replaced with computer models.
it reads like a General Studies degree

 

There are few things more privilege-minded than believing yourself entitled to take the enormous risk of a useless degree. Unless your family are so rich that they can support you for life, you've declared yourself too special to have to do boring things - like the plebs who'll support you when you can't find work.

It's repulsive.

 

It's weasel speak for sales & marketing.

 

For running a business sure. Just like psychology is an exception there are others. I'm not unreasonable.

 

Post of the day award!

 

LOL.. what toss... What government is saying is the same thing folks like you demand all the time which are outcome based incentives that produce a desired result, meaning, more folks who are capable of entering the work force in this case. And why not? I recently watched a woman with over $350K dollars worth of debt having gone through a post graduate school degree in diversity studies and was complaining that she could not find employment sufficient to overcome or pay for her debt. Seems like great policy for a change.

 

I read your link but didn't see the list of majors/degrees which will be affected. Can anyone else help me?

 

That will come when consensus is reached as to allowing someone to rack up a quarter mill bill in "worm psychology".