Mickey Mouse English
September 5th 2006 00:30
Coffee Lover has a brilliant rant on Media Studies and other so-called “Mickey Mouse degrees”. The thing is, as far as I could ever tell, Media Studies is exactly the same as English, except that it uses film and television instead of books. Yet Media Studies is a Mickey Mouse course, while if fewer people take English it’s the end of civilisation as we know it?! What is it if you pass an English degree anyway? Proof that you like reading novels? A-woo hoo for you!
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#1 MatGB
September 5th 2006 03:11
Well, yes, Media Studies is just English but aimed more at non-written stuff. But , well. Ah, fuck it. You know English students, I’ve no doubt, you know they arent’a bunch of wasters.
CompSci, that’s the real waste of space degree. Find me a CompSci who can do techie stuff better than what most have taught themselves anyway.
#2 doctorvee
September 5th 2006 14:42
Oh dear, that’s both my brother and his girlfriend targeted now. I’m in trouble when they get back.
#3 MatGB
September 5th 2006 17:22
Well, you dug the grave on English students, two of my former housemates, at different times, did English, and a different friend is half way through her Phd. As a discipline, I’ve more time for it that I have for certain other BA; it’s certainly more rigorous than politics and history, which is what I studied.
And my best friend is/was CompSci…
#4 Jon
September 6th 2006 03:01
Being a Computing Science student, it’s important to realise that we’re not learning how to fix computers. We’re learning the science behind computers. So really, it’s not surprising that we can’t do techie stuff as well as someone who’s interested in learning techie stuff.
#5 George
September 8th 2006 16:47
If English degrees focused on reading magazines rather than novels, the comparison with it and Media Studies would be more accurate, me thinks.
Also, I’ll agree with Jon. If you think a CompSci degree has any substantial relation to what a “techie” learns through their geekery, then you are just ignorant to what Computer Science is.
#6 MatGB
September 8th 2006 22:50
Given my best friend is a CompSci grad, I can assure you I’m not, and I know what it covers. I was taking the piss (obviously), but also mean that a fair amount of what a CompSci learns, others just teach themselves. Yes, better these days to do the degree, but after that, you still need to bed in in employment.
Recommend not doing what my friend did and post degree take a job specialising in an obscure and dying language (PICK basic anyone?)
[Techie=Mat shorthand for anything slightly beyond him vaguely IT related, which includes any kind of coding that he can't find a tutorial for]