MedievalMadness Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 (Disclaimer: I am in no way making fun of any degree programs.) While we're all waiting and anxiously clawing our eyes out, let's play 'Degrees You Never Knew Existed'! In other words, please share the unusual and interesting degree programs you see popping up on the results board. For example, maybe I'm just ignorant, but I've never heard of "Innovation Strategy Organization". Cambridge has a MA in it, whatever it is. Also, I do believe I saw a 'Landscape Design' PhD in New Mexico...
astroyogi Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 It feels close-minded, but I did not know you could get a PhD in geography. I had to look into what geography actually meant. Turns out it's not just where Little Country #47 is located, go figure!
MedievalMadness Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 It feels close-minded, but I did not know you could get a PhD in geography. I had to look into what geography actually meant. Turns out it's not just where Little Country #47 is located, go figure! I hear you. I once proofread a PhD student's dissertation for a geography program. It was definitely very different from what I would have imagined.
ExponentialDecay Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 It feels close-minded, but I did not know you could get a PhD in geography. I had to look into what geography actually meant. Turns out it's not just where Little Country #47 is located, go figure! You can get a BA and an MA in it as well. They're quite popular and useful degrees everywhere except the US, where some Harvard fuck said that Geography is useless and everybody listened to him. My college has a Landscape Studies program for undergraduates. It's like critical theory of space with some architecture thrown in. And don't do an MPhil at Cambridge in anything. They need that money to pay their adjuncts. Speaking of Cambridge, it offers a BA and D Phil in Land Economy, which is a mixture of economics, geography, and law. It's really cool and I was gonna do it for undergrad. wreckofthehope 1
hj2012 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Hey! I think there was a similar thread to this floating around about a month ago. ^^ I am fascinated by UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness PhD program. Also, I know someone doing an MFA in Puppetry at U Conn. That's pretty badass.
iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Hey! I think there was a similar thread to this floating around about a month ago. ^^ I am fascinated by UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness PhD program. Also, I know someone doing an MFA in Puppetry at U Conn. That's pretty badass. I had a run in with a puppet professor at my current uni... it was strange. I felt that either her or the puppet were coming onto me. rhetoricus aesalon and Kamisha 2
moorea12 Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Clemson University has a B.S. in Turfgrass. They also have a Masters in Packaging Science (designing packaging for stuff).
wreckofthehope Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 You can get a BA and an MA in it as well. They're quite popular and useful degrees everywhere except the US, where some Harvard fuck said that Geography is useless and everybody listened to him. My college has a Landscape Studies program for undergraduates. It's like critical theory of space with some architecture thrown in. And don't do an MPhil at Cambridge in anything. They need that money to pay their adjuncts. Speaking of Cambridge, it offers a BA and D Phil in Land Economy, which is a mixture of economics, geography, and law. It's really cool and I was gonna do it for undergrad. There are a few exceptionally strong geography programs left in the US: UCLA and Kentucky, to name a couple of the best, but almost all top private schools closed their departments a long time ago, like you said. (Hilariously, the QS world rankings had a geography ranking a few years back that was topped by a bunch of US schools that don't have geography departments...just goes to show what a crock of shit rankings are!). Not being from the US (and being a geographically inclined lit student) , I was a little taken aback by the two geography posts above!
iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Clemson University has a B.S. in Turfgrass. They also have a Masters in Packaging Science (designing packaging for stuff). Packaging Science is fascinating! You have to take a flat medium and create something in 3 dimensions that'll stand out, be sturdy, be economical, fit the shelves/exisiting freight boxes, while trying to fit as many as possible out of a large sheet of cardstock. THEN! you have to have a machine that'll cut, fold, and glue in all of the right places. How exciting!
Kamisha Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California is the proud home of the nation’s first “Cannabis College." Also, Indiana University offers a PhD in “Decision Sciences.”
ExponentialDecay Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Also, Indiana University offers a PhD in “Decision Sciences.” What I wonder is whether it's a sociological or AI approach. Eternal Optimist 1
Katia_chan Posted February 25, 2014 Posted February 25, 2014 Hey! I think there was a similar thread to this floating around about a month ago. ^^ I am fascinated by UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness PhD program. Also, I know someone doing an MFA in Puppetry at U Conn. That's pretty badass. Initially read that as Muppetry. Started reevaluating what I wanted to do with my life. Ozymandias Melancholia 1
cheeks Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Man, you geography doubters have got to read David Harvey and Neil Smith. Really awesome stuff on the relationships between capitalism and cities and how we conceive "nature", etc etc. Eternal Optimist 1
purpleperson Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 I saw something called "Fishing and Wharfaries" (the Wharfaries part is almost certainly inaccurate, but it was something that started with a "W" and sounded kinda like that.)
LexHex Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 ETSU has an M.A. in storytelling, which is pretty neat-o. MTSU has an M.A. in Equestrian Sciences, which makes sense when you consider the fact that TN is under KY.
MedievalMadness Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 There is apparently a Columbian Mailman School of Public Health...
2Naqiy Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 My Bachelor's is in Packaging, only 5 schools in the US with the degree (mine from Rochester Institute of Technology) and it is so much more than cardboard (corrugated) boxes.
KyCountry Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 My Bachelor's is in Packaging, only 5 schools in the US with the degree (mine from Rochester Institute of Technology) and it is so much more than cardboard (corrugated) boxes. Baggies too?
Eternal Optimist Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 WashU offers a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation & Participation Science.
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