All agreed.
But, I feel little sympathy for the kids whoever undergrads in English lit or geography and expect management positions when they graduate. Ppl still expect that university is necessarily a pathway to a career. That started changing 30 years ago. If you wanted the guarantee of a job, you should have taken a vocational degree.
English and geography are IMO two relatively worthwhile majors
for those with the right aptitude to pursue in universities. A good
command of English or a good grasp of principles of urban geography
could be very useful skills. There is this discipline of Sociology namely
Women & Gender Studies that has gained remarkable popularity in
recent years. As irrelevant as the subject is to the job market here is
what UofT indicated as career opportunties for those who aspire to
study victimization of women:
Who employs women and gender studies graduates?
Government and Community Organizations
Universities and Colleges
Non-profit agencies
Religious Organizations
Mental Health Facilities
Community Centres
Behavioral Health Clinics
Residential Care Facilities
Corporate Human Resources Offices
You can also gain experience by volunteering to participate in a faculty member’s research project. To do so, approach the professor with whom you would like to work or apply for UTM’s Research Opportunity Program (ROP).
Aside from promising career opportunity the university also wants you
to know the many useful skills that the students are going to acquire:
Skills developed by women & gender studies majors
Communication skills
Ability to formulate and defend positions
Ability to write detailed research papers and summarize concepts and ideas
Use vocabulary to suit a wide variety of audiences
Read and understand both primary and secondary sources
Explain concepts and strategies well enough in research papers to influence
and persuade the reader
Research skills
Evaluate ideas and research
Gather information and data
Literature reviews using libraries and internet
Interpret research and data
Interpersonal skills
Tolerance of different people and their views
Ability to understand difference and discover the intersections between
racism, homophobia, sexism, classicism, and other forms of oppression
Knowledge about power relationships and injustice
Ability to accept intellectual and personal challenges, take a stand
and support it with evidence
Ability to assess needs
When the ivory tower resort to this kind of propaganda to
sucker high school teens whose fault is it if they are going to
join the generation of the underemployed in the future?