That's where Carl Spackler got his doctorate.
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Dance, Bachelor of Arts Family, Youth and Community Sciences Film and Media Studies Golf and Sports Turf Management Sustainability and the Built Environment Sustainability Studies Women's Studies
Minors:
African-American Studies Landscape Architecture
UF has a Multicultural & Diversity Affairs department.
UF could of not saved the same amount by cutting these useless majors and administrators instead choose one of the few fields where students can actually get a decent job.
Huh?
Silly computers, who needs them?
Gotta have choices of majors for the football and basketball teams, ya know.
That's where Carl Spackler got his doctorate.
Computers???? This is what the marketplace is DEMANDING:
1. “The Phallus”
Occidental College. A seminar in critical theory and social justice, this class examines Sigmund Freud, phallologocentrism and the lesbian phallus.
2. “Queer Musicology”
UCLA. This course welcomes students from all disciplines to study what it calls an “unruly discourse” on the subject, understood through the works of Cole Porter, Pussy Tourette and John Cage.
3. “Taking Marx Seriously”
Amherst College. This advanced seminar for 15 students examines whether Karl Marx still matters despite the countless interpretations and applications of his ideas, or whether the world has entered a post-Marxist era.
4. “Adultery Novel”
University of Pennsylvania. Falling in the newly named “gender, culture and society” major, this course examines novels and films of adultery such as “Madame Bovary” and “The Graduate” through Marxist, Freudian and feminist lenses.
5. “Blackness”
Occidental College. Critical race theory and the idea of “post-blackness” are among the topics covered in this seminar course examining racial identity. A course on whiteness is a prerequisite.
6. “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration”
University of Washington. This women studies department offering takes a new look at recent immigration debates in the U.S., integrating questions of race and gender while also looking at the role of the war on terror.
7. “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism”
Mount Holyoke College. The educational studies department offers this first-year, writing-intensive seminar asking whether whiteness is “an identity, an ideology, a racialized social system,” and how it relates to racism.
8. “Native American Feminisms”
University of Michigan. The women’s studies and American culture departments offer this course on contemporary Native American feminism, including its development and its relation to struggles for land.
9. “’Mail Order Brides?’ Understanding the Philippines in Southeast Asian Context”
Johns Hopkins University. This history course — cross-listed with anthropology, political science and studies of women, gender and sexuality — is limited to 35 students and asks for an anthropology course as a prerequisite.
10. “Cyberfeminism”
Cornell University. Cornell’s art history department offers this seminar looking at art produced under the influence of feminism, post-feminism and the Internet.
11. “American Dreams/American Realities”
Duke University. Part of Duke’s Hart Leadership Program that prepares students for public service, this history course looks at American myths, from “city on the hill” to “foreign devil,” in shaping American history.
12. “Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism”
Swarthmore College. Swarthmore’s “peace and conflict studies” program offers this course that “will deconstruct ‘terrorism’ “ and “study the dynamics of cultural marginalization” while seeking alternatives to violence.
What is wrong with Landscape Architecture? It is not a crip course.
What a stupid choice. It would be better to drop women’s studies, minority studies, black studies, gender studies......good grief these people are idiots.
There’s more to the story than meets the eye:
Sooooooo Basket weaving 101 is what the student loans zer0 will mandate for free will pay for
I wonder what’s going to happen to all the CS majors at that college.
I’m in CS at SFA and i think I can only transfer 60 hours to another school. I’d lose over a year of classes.
The coursework is pretty difficult and some of my classes have maybe 6 kids.
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Forbes Got UF Story Wrong Says Scott
April 24th, 2012 by Mike Vasilinda
Several national news outlets have printed that the University of Florida is cutting its computer science program to the bone while increasing athletic funding.
Athletic funding is going up, but is funded with private donation, and the computer science program is losing graduate teaching assistants, but students, according to the governor, will actually end up with the same number of classes and better teachers in the classroom
“My understanding of that is that they were saving the money by doing the right thing and that is they were having professors teach more classes. The savings was with teaching assistants” says Scott.
I wonder what’s going to happen to all the CS majors at that college.
I’m in CS at SFA and i think I can only transfer 60 hours to another school. I’d lose over a year of classes.
The coursework is pretty difficult and some of my classes have maybe 6 kids.
Sheesh.. dumb move. Oh well, my alma mater, University of Central Florida (UCF), has a dandy top notch Computer Science Dept.
UF is recognized around the world for its turf management program. With the number of golf courses in Florida, it’s no surprise they’re considered the #1 Florida college.
Maybe the vast majority of UF freshmen are too intellectually challenged to work with computers.
Sad. When all those highly-recruited Florida football players are in their thirties and looking for work in the tech field, they will be shocked to see a lot of imported nerd-appearing young people holding all the tech jobs. Sad.
Many of these 30something used up football players will turn bitter and wonder why they played stupid football and why no body in authority prepared them for the real world of work when they got into their 30s.
These forgotten Florida football stars will wonder why they ended up as security guards during the main part of their lives. Sad.
Yes. I have the feeling that prominent tech people like Bill Gates are happy to hear that Florida is shutting down its computer science department so that he can go before Congress and tell Congress that he just can't find good help in the United States, and so he must go overseas, especially to Asia, where they have more computer science graduates than they can find jobs for. Sad.
I hear Bill Gates is going to lead a group of tech leaders to try to save the Florida computer science department, and these leaders will contribute a lot of money to do so.
Yeah, right.
Must be the football coach is hurting for recruitment goodies.
Wow, no one saw this coming. The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million $1.4 million.
The School could have eliminated the entire athletics dept. and had plenty of money left over to not only keep but upgrade the computer science dept.
But you know,Athletics/Sports are so important.NOT.
According to the article, the state has cut university funding by 30% over six years.
Want to create some funding drama?
“Slash” the C.S. department.
Notice that ZERO C.S. faculty have been fired - just “re-assigned.”
And the funding comparison to UF’s athletic department is completely bogus and malicious.
The A.D. is completely self-supporting.
Half the money earned by the football program is used to subsidize other sports programs that don't make a profit.
And the “shortage” of engineers and computer techs?
Tell that to the thousands of white, middle aged programmers here in Seattle who have been replaced by 25 year old H1-B’s from India and China who have USA work visas.
The other side of the story, Forbes is full of it.