Mickey Mouse degrees at Mickey Mouse universities?

Should people who do Mickey Mouse degrees, such as those in windsurfing, fast food management, rugby studies, golf course management, flower arranging and the rest, have to pay higher fees than those doing proper degrees?

Mickey Mouse degrees at Mickey Mouse universities?
Well, just to put a smile on your face, I graduated with a law degree in July. At the ceremony someone recieved a PhD for research into carparks and carparking.





And you call media studies a waste of time?
Reply:ouch! well here it goes: i am a student doing a media arts degree and i believe that courses like windsurfing, rugby studies, flower arranging, david beckham studies should be rid of. i think they irrelevant and perposterous, seeing as unlike cultural and media studies they do not make any proper use of academic/cultural work or theory, in relation to those courses.





but also i think that people shouldn't lump media studies into this group as well. i've studied media for 4 or 5 years already particuarly at access and now at degree level- and speaking from experience, it is more than just watching tv, film, reading newspapers and magazines and discussing about them. there are elements of philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, linguistics and cultural studies embedded in the study of media and of which are applied, utilised and linked to great effect. people seem to have this misconception that all media studies does is talk and discuss about tv, film, newspapers, celebrities etc in a way that people do in their everyday lives. but as a student of media studies, that's not true. likewise, i have studied people like theodore adorno, roland barthes, antonio gramci, pierre bourdieu, immanuel kant, claude levi strauss during my 4 years of studying media - and yet these are all philosophers or aka as key thinkers we come across in philosophy.





so therefore, i agree with you that mickey mouse degrees are pointless and trivial and of which should be axed, but in regards to cultural and media studies, i beg to differ.
Reply:Never agreed to the derogatory use of the Mickey Mouse name. I hope you reconsider
Reply:It makes the Government look good though.





Just how many jobs are there for TV presenters with media degrees?