Higher education in America has undergone a huge transformation since its early days. I think we could all agree that our Founders would screech at what Universities are offering their students. Let’s take a look at some of the most worthless courses that your child could be taking on your dime:
The worst college majors are fields of study that leave the student with relatively few job opportunities and often a distorted or ultra-liberal view of the world. Students incur an average debt in excess of $25,000 for attending college, and these college majors can leave such students without the ability to pay off their loans, which are typically not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Adding insult to injury, many public colleges have begun charging students more if they decline one of the Worst College Majors, and study something of value instead.[1] Incidentally, a study by USA Todayand the non-profit Education Sector showed that 514 colleges are more likely to produce defaults in student loans than graduates.[2]
In addition, college matters less and less to employers. The number of degree-less hires is trending way up at Google.[3] President of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Many liberal-arts graduates, even from the best schools, aren’t getting jobs in part because they didn’t learn much in school.”[4]
In addition to having horrible majors, students are also offered these horrible courses:
Courses
- U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness. – Arizona State University [23]
- The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media. – Skidmore College [24]
- Politicizing Beyoncé: Rutgers University class from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. [25]
- Contemporary American Culture: The Fifty Shades Trilogy – American University [26]
- The Colbert Report: American Satire Writing Seminar – Boston University [27]
- Understanding Obama – Harvard Law School [28]
- Revolutionary Marxism – Portland State University [29]
- Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance – New York University [30]
- Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement – Columbia University [31]
- Football Culture
- Queer Musicology – UCLA
- The Science of Harry Potter – Frostburg University [32]
- Native American Feminism – University of Michigan
- Cyber Feminism – Cornell University
- Feminist New Black Man – Occidental College [33]
- Philosophy and Star Trek – Georgetown University in Washington [34]
- The Sociology of Hip-Hop: The Odyssey of Jay-Z – Georgetown University [35]
- Emotional Literacy[36]
- Media Genres, the study of zombies – University of Baltimore [37]
- The Science of Superheroes – UC Irvine [38]
- Field Equipment Operation (tractor driving) – UC Davis
- Hip Hop: The Politics of Culture – UC San Diego
- History of Surfing – UC Santa Barbara
- Labor Studies – UM Saint Louis & UM Kansas City [39]
- Arguing with Judge Judy – UC Berkeley
- Self-Esteem – Cal State Fresno
- Gaga for Lady Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity- University of Virginia-Charlottesville[40]
- Pilot Brewery (brewmaster) – UC Davis
- Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence – UC Berkeley
- Ecology of Renewable Natural Resources – Texas Tech University [41]
- Introduction to social networking
- The Mythology of Harry Potter-UCLA
- History of Weaving-UC Berkeley
- The Simpsons and the American Family-Hampshire College
- From DNA to Homosapiens – MCLA
- Getting dressed-Princeton University [42]
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