Womyn’s Studies, Queer Studies, and Black History are much easier degrees. Why work hard for an education? Obama’s going to take care of you anyway.
I wonder if Savage will chime on this topic. He waxes nostalgic about his plant collecting days in the tropics and they are featured in museums here and in England.
I took botany in college and could barely understand it, but I still have my text books and I still love botanic renderings of the 19th century.
In recent climate change chats on Huffington/Slate/Cheat type sites I’ve noticed that among those who support global warming, those who come from a background of Physics, chemistry, math and real sciences have cogent arguments, even if I don’t agree with them.
But those who invoke environmental science and similar college courses are totally incoherent in their arguments. And those with a background in diversity courses or humanities seem unable to get beyond the ad hominem arguments.
There are probably exceptions. But there does seem to be a pattern.
Maybe if they put botany in with the womyn's studies department and renamed it Vegestudies there would be more interest.
My son is majoring in Accounting and Finance but he works as a researcher at the university Plant Pathology dept(Weeds). Pretty cool job.