Why even bother to have studies of or on anything - just pay your $200,000 tuition and get your piece of paper with some sort of Tibetan Poetry PHD.
Yes. Spend a fortune for a worthless diploma. But that’s California for ya.
“Why even bother to have studies of or on anything - just pay your $200,000 tuition and get your piece of paper with some sort of Tibetan Poetry PHD.”
We are there with certain DNA’s and certain IUD’s (Instant Unemployment Degrees)
Tibetan poetry is a pretty darn tough thing to learn.
One has to learn Tibetan (several varieties of Tibetan) enough to “get” the subtleties of poetry, and then one has to learn absolute masses of literature - Tibetan lit is absolutely not a small subject. And then one has to deal with the actual poetry, which tends to be complex in itself and very, very lengthy. A single poetic epic spans 120 volumes.
How useful it is to become an expert in this field I dont know, but its definitely not a field for lightweights and slackers. Speaking as a retired Mech engineer (BSME).
The normal “useless” degree in the US at this point are any of the social sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology; the liberal arts as they exist today; and the usual “business” degree.