Posted on 04/05/2012 10:08:33 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - You can spend four years earning a degree in “Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies” at the University of Kansas or a degree in "Gender and Women's Studies" at the University of Kentucky.
But the degree will cost you more at Kansas if you are an out-of-state student than it will at Kentucky.
At Kansas, according to the College Board, tuition plus room and board is currently $21,446 per year for an in-state student and $34,832 for an out-of-state student.
At Kentucky, it's $22,142 for an in-state student and $31,754 for an out-of-state student.
That works out to a cool $139,328 for an out-of-state student to earn an undergraduate degree in gender studies at Kansas versus just $127,016 for an out-of-state student at Kentucky. That's assuming the tuition and board and room costs don't increase--and the student finishes in four years.
Why spend so much time and money earning a college degree in gender studies?
KU’s Web site gives a very short explanation of why this is not only a major but a department which grants doctoral degrees (Ph.Ds): “Because much of what people think they know about women, gender, and sex is myth.”
Courses offered in this “myth-bustingl” major at Kansas include but are not limited to:
-- “Gender and Sexuality in Cyberspace” where “Students learn how the Internet helps produce new and alternative modes of expressing and experiencing sexuality and how sexual desires, fantasies, and identities are articulated in this cyberspace,” according to the school’s web site.
-- “History of Women and the Body” which “examines different notions about women and their bodies from a historical perspective.”
-- “Love, Sex and Globalization” where students learn among other things about “mail-order brides, child adoption, sex tourism, commodified romance, and emotional labor.”
If that’s not enough, students can chose from among a number of courses on “Feminist Theory.”
At Kentucky, you can take “Introduction to Feminist Theory.” This class, says the description in the Kentucky course catalog, “will examine what feminist and womanist theories are and the ways in which they analyze and explain the workings of our social world. The course will clarify basic concepts in feminist thought such as gender, difference, patriarchy, and post-colonialism and will provide students with tools to analyze these theories and explore contemporary applications.”
It can be followed by classes in “Feminist Theory,” and “Advanced Feminist Theory.”
Another offering at Kentucky is “Comparative Constructions of Gender and Sexuality.” This course, the catalog says, will “give students an understanding of an array of diversely situated theories and debates about gender and sexuality mainly outside of mainstream U.S. culture. Countries/communities of focus will vary.”
Kentucky also offers a course on “Women and ‘Madness.’” But it is not about the Final Four.
Students at either campus who are hoping for a “well-rounded” education can take some interesting courses outside the gender studies department. At Kansas, there is a grouping of classes in the “Fundamentals of Fiber Forms."
Kansas also offers a course on “Environmental Justice and Public Policy.”
Kentucky has a wide assortment of courses in the field of musicology, including the “History and Sociology of Rock Music.” The rock music course is under the section titled “Music History and Literature courses for non-majors.”
Kentucky also offers a course on “Drugs and Behavior”--which only goes to show that if you play your cards right at UK, you can spend four years studying sex, drugs -- and rock ‘n roll.
Universities are getting rich offering these types of degrees while inept students are taking them and going into debt with student loans and then crying they can't find jobs. This is what happens when you tell every child they need, deserve and must have a college degree.
Those who can't succeed in a real discipline take these invented specialty degrees. Where are the real guidance counselors in the high schools and colleges?
Either way, it’s a hundred grand of debt that will result in no chance at a real job. Even hunting for a job in the college system will fail - there’s folks who plunked down their $250k who are ahead of you in line.
“Man Hatin’ School”.
Like Bill Self.....like University of Kentucky......but calamari can go back to the sea.
-—That works out to a cool $139,328 for an out-of-state student to earn an undergraduate degree in gender studies at Kansas versus just $127,016 for an out-of-state student at Kentucky.——
Lolz. Seriously? Really?
Bwahaha!!!
These people get what they deserve, in spades.
and this degree gets you what kind of job? Gigolo? whore? chief burger flipper at McD’s?
How can a nation NOT be socially, as well as financially bankrupt when people unqualified for anything other than crime or manual labor, can spend obscene amounts obtaining fake, unproductive and otherwise useless education?
"Circling the bowl" is the perfect metaphor..."
Laugh it up fuzzball!
You and I and every productive citizen is paying for it.
With no choice in the matter.
Cruising to an inflated retirement in a public supported system overpopulated by incompetents.
There are people in PRISONS across the United States for swindling the unwary and unknowing for much less money than the TUITION scammed from wide-eyed YUTES.
Is it possible that so many professors have beards because they cannot look themselves in the eye while shaving?
What about the so-called “guidance counselors” in High Schools, urging those innocent seniors to jump of the cliff of financial ruin at the college of their choice?
Another round of “mortgages” We the People will get stuck with....to prop up Institutions of little to no public use.
2008 ...the banks stuck us with the bill...2012 it will be the University’s
“Gender Studies” ? There’s only 2. How hard can it be?
“Gender studies”? What’s that....boys can stand up in the bathroom and girls can’t? I’ve known that for a while even without the benefit of a single college course.
First, there must be Federal and States laws that require universities and colleges to show with a high degree of accuracy what is the expected salary that a student can earn from the major he or she is studying.
Second, the Federal government and States governments should not give any tax payers loans for students who major in stupid liberal arts majors that are not needed in the real world and cannot generate any decent income for those who are studying them.
If these two things happen then the majority of liberal arts majors would cease to exist because most parents would not be willing to pay a fortune for their children to study such meaningless and unproductive majors.
The answer is to stop taxpayer-funded student loans, and abolish state universities.
Tuition for most colleges will drop to a price range that will make working through college possible. When that happens, students will sober up real fast.
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