The MOST Useless College Degree: Gender Studies
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Hey Shane video idea 💡
Can you make a video for those who have bad degrees like myself and explore the option of getting a good degree.
For example the oregon state online post baccalaureate degree program is a great way to obtain a b.a in computer science . Takes only 2 years can be done all remote. No extra fees for out of state tuition. Requires to have an existing degree and college level English and math. Theoretically you could bypass all the hard math requirements needed for comp sci this way.
If you study in gender studies your best bet at using your degree is to become a professor for gender studies
Lol
or use it as prelaw since it will be a free high gpa
It's a scam!
@@toxicdubz3841 Only if you can stand doing gender studies.
So you're recruited to recruit more people? Isn't that a pyramid scheme?
It's ironic that gender studies often talks about the "wage gap", while being a cause of it 😂
Lol😂
hate to be that guy... but the wage gap is talking about differences between pay between men and women of similar qualifications with similar jobs. So your premise is false good sir
@@garrisonboehl258 Which doesn't exist. Someone did the math already.
@@garrisonboehl258 Yeah, doesnt exist. The ladies I work with make the same as me.
@@garrisonboehl258 nah once you account for several obvious factors (like job selection) wage gap doesn't exist anymore. Go back to gender studies 😂
My college offers that degree and on the bulletin they say "Think this degree isn't practical? Think again" and it lists the jobs you can do with this degree. Including medicine, journalism, LGBTQIA activism, and a few other things. If you have to explain why your degree is good, it probably isn't good.
Lol the fact that they HAVE to preface it with "you don't think this is practical?" should just say enough 🤣
Though I feel stupid because my masters is in Educational Admin but it at least has some sort of practical use which is to work in colleges! Gender studies is a glorified concentration!
@@onmas909 as he mentioned, you don't need a gender studies degree to do those careers either
@@jamie91995 Activism is more so an interest than a career I thought. For journalism just do communications or business, medicine just do public health, nursing, pharmacy, or literally anything else in that sector. Trying to do gender studies and medicine sounds like such a hard sell!
@@onmas909 I mean, do gender studies and then you need to take an extra 8-12 med school prerequisites. Or just do biology, chemistry, neuroscience, biochemistry (like me), healthcare administration, etc. like everyone else.
Bro my college doesn't even tell you the careers you can get into with gender studies on the website while other degrees have a section for career possibilities 😂
This made Art History look like a STEM degree
Art history at least lets you see some neat pottery and illustrations lol
Remember art history
I decided that if I end up going to a college that gives me a huge scholarship next year I will double major in either international relations or political science along with art history because I find art history really fun 😭. If I get into Cornell next month I’m not doing this though because this isn’t even an option with the school I applied to there but I will still take a lot of art history classes
Gender studies is use(less)ful for finding out why do people go into debt, after all surely it is not this degree, right...... right? Surely this degree will land me a nice paying job......
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Makes me feel better that I got an actual history degree, and not an arts history degree.
From an employer perspective, a Gender Studies degree on a resume might be considered as worse than useless or having no degree at all. Many employers may perceive it as a red flag marking the jobseeker as a potential troublemaker and toss the resume immediately into the trash. Why spend thousands of dollars on a degree that actually reduces your employment prospects by turning you into a walking liability?
I remember back in 2007 in Canada, shops used to hire stockboys without high school diploma. I was in high school at the time, and I got hired. Then, a few years later the same store would not accept anyone who had less than a Bachelor's degree. Supply vs demand I guess. I worked with many people who had Bachelor's Degrees, and learned a lot from them. My coworkers came from Ukraine, Nigeria, Sudan (the northern one), Ethiopia, and other African countries. My manager never hired people with gender studies degrees. He realized 20 years ago then that they will be too toxic in the workplace.
Not true. An undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is actually a big plus in today's more diverse and inclusive workplaces.
@@JooJoooJoooo In your dreams. If I run a business I won't hire someone who forget about working for my business rather creates nuisance around the workplace
Everyone has a gender. I mean yes, we can't define "gender" or "man or woman" but that's why you need our degree... FOR 80 THOUSAND DOLLARS
He makes a great point about having a "well-rounded" education, becoming a jack of all trades is least beneficial when it comes to college, I never thought about that, and it just makes me wonder why we still have electives.
@@df27d hey don't pin the bs on us
It’s not really like you can define what a man or woman is either
@@DarthCookieKS Man = XY Chromosomes
Women = XX Chromosomes
@@millcreekmilitia2777 intersex men who have XX (De La Chappelle Syndrome) and XXY (Kleinfelter syndrome) chromosomes and intersex women who have one X XY chromosomes (Swyer syndrome): allow us to introduce ourselves
My younger sister jokingly said she wants to study gender studies. I jokingly replied that she wants to be a housewife after she graduates😂.
After doing that degree she won't be able to do that either
Ironically, i got a Burger King ad during this ☠️
Jesus christ why does this exist. And who would be dumb enough to spend 10s of thousands of dollars for it
To be honest, you could learn this degree on Courses for much cheaper.
coursera wont have a professor that mentors you, motivates you, and provides challenging assignments that nurturs CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING, the no no nasty words that this channel severely undervalues.
@@thebeatles9 It wouldnt be a difference with a Gender Studies degree as those things could be learned anywhere.
@@Coinz8 negative, dont compare a youtube video or textbook to a classroom experience. and employers don't care if you took a coursera, they will however look for letters after your name.
@@thebeatles9 Employers also don't care if you have a gender studies degree, so I guess there's no difference?
@@thebeatles9 Such a useless degree exploiting some money to the clueless kids to spend some thousand dollars that is fuckin useless
Rather than spend thousands of dollars on a Women's studies degree, instead go on a date with one. You'll probably learn more in one evening than the entire course 🤷♂️
Only women goes to Women's studies degree.
I recall someone once saying on here that when they worked in HR they actively avoided hiring anyone with "Gender studies" in their resume.
thats discriminatory n they should be evaluated by their higher up
@@kimora69 Is a college degree a protected class? No. Gender studies is bullshit.
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@@kimora69 is not u probably have a degree in gender studies
@@diegolopesme nah bio pre med but thanks for assuming
These people are unemployable. Unfortunately they frequently end up in local government and school boards.
I want more of them in local government and school boards.
I believe these degrees shouldn't exist in Academia, if they do, they should combining with other useful degrees like business or tech. Thank you, bro 😊
Welcome!
yea they should only be available as a minor
@@aether3697 Not even as a minor. They should be offered as continuing education classes. Until college tuition is brought under control, subjects like this need to be seriously scrutinized. The only purpose they serve is for the college to make money on students who may not have decided on a major by the time they leave H.S.
agreed! the major creates whiners complainers and entitled brats
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I totally agree on this. Hopefully I have received like 4 or 5 job "offers" in the course of the last month with my language and linguistics degree (all related to teaching and translation), but I definitely would say that this social sciences degrees should include something related to tech, data analytics (cause yeah, supposedly we as scientist are expected to work with that) or other somewhat in demand/more interesting fields. Especially nowadays with AIs being improved at an incredibly high level and being capable of writing essays and summaries of WW2. A friend of mine who's still studying and is majoring in literature just confessed that he wrote an assigment with help of GTP. I have some expertice with corpus, ARS and chatbot design, but obviously I didn't learned that thanks to college but to online programs, cause, like Shane pointed, most colleges give a shit if you can actually make something with your life cause at the end of the day all they want is your money. If they really promoted critical thinking, just as they say, most courses and requirements weren't useless "materias de relleno" like we like to call 'em in Spanish in which you'll only write three essays. Like Shane just said, universities and colleges are the only pyramidal schemed businesses where 18-19 people who have never taken a long term decision in their lifes and don' t know shit about finances can spend tons of money and go into debt cause, hell yeah, they already know what they are doing and they'll receive high quality education that they couldn't receive elsewhere, right? And do unies really do something to show you future possible job areas? Or are they mostly interested in publishing and research?
At least I've heard that it is highly unlikely but not impossible for linguists to land at some tech related job, but I really wonder what can someone do with majors like PS, gender studies and sociology just with what they've learned in uni. Another friend of mine doubled in cultural studies (the hell that even means) and political science, but from what I have recently heard from her we both have the same language related employability cause here in Colombia there aren't job opportunities for political science majors. We Latinos have a weird mindset where you can't criticize nor say something negative about college because if you do you're a dumb complainer and unies are sacred, but if you end up being unemployed with these degrees it is your fault because you chose wrongly and not university's who didn't teach you something useful and appliable to the real world in 5 years though you spent tons of money and you can earn more with a TH-cam channel. And if you couldn't find a job while you were studying somehow it is also your fault though you lacked a master's degree and 3 years of exp.
I'm the kind of person that thinks all degrees are equally important and all that stuff, but I have read somewhere on the Internet that European countries like UK and Hungary are making some efforts to discourage people from studying gender studies.
My Son makes over 100k a year selling a cars with no college degree. And he has as opportunity to make more in Sales management in the future
Imagine how much more he could do with gender studies degree😂
😂😂😂😂😂
It's always possible to make good money without a college degree, but if you make good money in white collar work, having a college degree will open up more doors to allow you to make even more money. While a 'useless' degree is pretty useless by itself, it can still be useful to companies who have a requirement of "must have a bachelors degree to hold this position". It can also be used to negotiate higher wages as they know that if you have a degree, there will be other employers who are more likely to compete for you.
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I make $577,200 a year as a software architect
what did you major in to get to that position?
@@danny.golcman6846 I graduated with my MA degree in computer science
So I’m an MA comp sci grad as an software architect
@@GTS-dh9wj great career
@@GTS-dh9wj And how much do they take in taxes from you?
@@Scharlarntz if he is in California then it is too much
I knew someone who culled the pile of her employers applications to determine who to interview and who not to interview....She (and it was a woman) told me that anyone with a gender studies major or minor would instantly be placed in the "don't interview" stack, as history had shown her that they tended to have a chip on their shoulder, disliked men as a whole and seldom worked well in groups.
And nearly every one eventually filed a harassment suit of some sort.
True story.
Not surprising at all.
I also know a HR person at a fairy large bank once told me that if a person listed their pronouns on a resume, they would not get a call because “there’s just a far greater chance they’ll be annoying and entitled”
How many applications did they receive?
@@zaknelthepony7124 Not sure, she did not tell me and I never asked, but she said she rejected anyone with a gender studies major each and every time her company was looking to hire.
Did she mention which other degrees would immediately result in a rejection?
Bullshit.
Gender studies is the worst joke ever
If someone wants to get a useless degree, that’s on them BUT I don’t believe that they should get a loan for a useless degree.
Much like how banks would not give a business loan for bad business plans, lending institutions should not give out loans to get a useless degree.
Majors should be scored by marketability to guide students and lenders.
Want a useless degree? Let Mom & Dad pay.
Literally any degree is "useless" if you don't have any actual plan other than getting the degree. Bear in mind I'm not neccesarily defending the major the video is talking about, but I also still hate this toxic mentality of degrees being "useless".
A tech company is more likely to hire a History major with a portfolio and good references rather than a CS major with nothing to show on their resumé other than a degree. They need to know that you're actually capable of doing the job you're signing up for, and the fact you earned a piece of paper doesn't tell them that. This goes for basically every other field as well.
Not to say a degree is useless, but you should also have an actual plan beyond the degree. Do things outside the classroom. Internships, build a portfolio, etc.
Comparing business loans (with people who are presumably already experienced in that field and would likely know better) to school loans given to kids who are just figuring out what career path they want to take is also kind of odd.
I have never met a gender studies that can think critically, well i rephrase, if any of them they have the ability it is not used
I always thought Gender Studies was a meme but didn't actually think it was real wtf???
It’s real unfortunately
My Bachelor's Degree is in Health Sciences with a minor in Psychology I just graduated this year in May 2022, it took awhile to find a job but I found one at a nonprofit where I help individuals with disabilities I like what I do because it goes into my future goals in pursing Occupational Therapy, and I know others struggle and it takes time but regardless on what people chooses we just have to make the best of what we have and keep looking and network with others.
Why didn't you jump straight to OT instead of wasting time and money in useless degrees? I graduated with psychology too and it's Shht fr. Looking back I should have taken nursing or engineering or trade school
@@___Anakin.Skywalker I'm going go assume that you don't know all the details to become and that's alright. Becoming an OT is not that easy it requires alot things to even be considered as a candidate for a program and my degree and minor actually helped me with my process rn with my applications some degrees might not help individuals by just studying alone in order to make the best of what you have with your degree or working on is experience with either research, volunteering, internships etc. My degree was not useless I took advantage of any opportunity that came my way and I was able to build up on my networking, and support if needed on my current goals that I am working on. Whatever opinions you may have on what I believe or others that's fine, I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything I'm just telling you how I was able to get to where I am and hopefully wherever you are things go your way into what you want.
@@___Anakin.Skywalker I agree with you how engineering degrees, nursing degrees, and trade school degrees are great degrees to get. There's a lot of jobs in engineering, nursing, and the trades. Engineering and the trades are degrees where you don't need advanced degrees in order to advance in those fields. There's a lot of jobs in nursing, but nursing is a field where you often need a Master's degree in order to advance in the field. Jobs such as Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Anesthesiologist, etc typically require at least a Master's degree or doctorate.
Psychology is not like Gender Studies, Women Studies, Philosophy, etc in the sense of little to no jobs in those fields. Psychology is a lot like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Nursing, any Science kind of major, etc in the sense where you often need at least a Master's degree to advance in those fields. There's a lot of jobs in Psychology, but you often need at least a Master's degree in order to advance in Psychology kinds of jobs. Jobs that people with Psychology degrees get such as psychologist, therapist, counselor, lab director, research director, clinical director, etc require at least a Master's degree. People with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology can get jobs such as lab assistant, clinical assistant, research assistant, mental health assistant, counselor's assistant, an assistant to a psychologist, a therapist's assistant, etc, but in order to get jobs such as lab director, clinical director, research director, lead researcher, psychologist, counselor, therapist, etc you need at least a Master's degree.
Marketing jobs, Community Director jobs, Human Resources jobs, Engagement Director jobs, etc often require a Bachelor's degree in Psychology or a related field, and people with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology are able to work their way up the cooperate ladder in marketing jobs, human resources jobs, community director jobs, etc without a Master's degree.
A person has to have a Master's degree in order to be a Occupational Therapist. People have to get a Bachelor's degree in order to get a Master's degree. Bachelor's degrees in Nursing, Health Sciences, Psychology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Exercise Science, etc often help prepare people for being accepted into graduate programs in Occupational Therapy.
@@julienorellana8292 where are you from? In the Philippines you can just take an entrace test to OT school and if you pass they'd take you in. There's no need to take other routes, just go straight ahead.
It's a cutthroat course though so you have to focus and study or the school would kick you out if you're not upto par
@@julienorellana8292 I agree with you how becoming an Occupational Therapist isn't easy. I agree with you how having an undergraduate degree in Psychology and the Health Sciences can definitely help someone to get accepted into Occupational Therapy graduate programs.
I agree with you how having an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and Psychology is not useless in the sense of little to no jobs in those fields. The reason why undergraduate degrees in Health Sciences and Psychology can get a bad rep is because you often need at least a Master's degree in order to advance in Health Sciences and Psychology kinds of jobs. Having an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences and Psychology is not like having an undergraduate degree in Women Studies, Gender Studies, Philosophy, etc in the sense of little to no jobs in those fields. There's lots of jobs in the Health Sciences and Psychology (with undergraduate and graduate degrees in these fields), but you often need at least a Master's degree to advance in these fields and work your way up the corporate ladder in these fields. A person can't be a psychologist, therapist, counselor, research director, lead researcher, clinical director, etc unless they have at least a Master's degree. People with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology can get jobs such as counselor's assistant, lab assistant, research assistant, mental health assistant, etc but they can't get jobs such as psychologist, therapist, research director, etc unless they have at least a Master's degree. People can't have jobs such as nurse practitioner, nurse anesthesiologist, etc unless they have a graduate degree.
People with Bachelor's degrees in Psychology can work their way up the corporate ladder in marketing jobs, human resources jobs, community director jobs, engagement director jobs, etc without getting a Master's degree (human resources jobs, marketing jobs, etc often require a Bachelor's degree in Psychology or a related field), but someone can't be a psychologist, therapist, counselor, etc unless they have at least a Master's degree.
Engineering, computer science, accounting, finance, business administration, sports management, construction management, communications, etc are fields where you don't need a Master's degree to advance in these fields.
I 100% agree with you how volunteering, interning, networking, etc definitely helps in landing jobs. I know lots of people that have degrees in marketable fields like engineering, computer science, accounting, finance, etc that struggled with finding a job in their degree/field. Having a degree in a relevant field and the interview going well isn't enough to land a job for most jobs that require a college degree. In addition to having a degree in a relevant field and the interview going well, a person often needs relevant experience and relevant professional connections in order to land the job. Job openings for engineering jobs, computer science jobs, accounting jobs, finance jobs, psychology jobs, business jobs, marketing jobs, etc are jobs that typically involve 10-15 people being interviewed for the job and 1 person out of the 10-15 people interviewed being chosen for the job, and even if you meet the general criteria for the job, have degrees in relevant fields, have a lot of relevant experience, are highly qualified for the job, etc, there's still a strong chance that you won't be the selected candidate for the job. The selected candidate for the job is often someone that's highly qualified for the job that the hiring manager knows, someone that's highly qualified for the job that the hiring manager received a referral, recommendation letter, etc from a trusted relevant professional reference, etc.
Congratulations on having a job helping people with disabilities. It's great to have a job where you help people and make a positive difference in other people's lives. I wish you the best in regards to your Occupational Therapist career goals.
One main problem I have with interdisciplinary studies is that it's too broad since you're taking different types of classes.
Depends on the subject. industrial engineering, logistics, business Informatics etc. Are fields that connect very important field with one another.
We've had this conversation on other videos Shane produced. Everybody *likes* things like art, music, philosophy, and yea even gender studies if one were to carve out the delusional Marxist cancer from it. I mean studying gender in general? That's an enormously fascinating topic. How much better would the world work if males and females understood each other better? And how miserable would the world be without art and painting and poetry and music et. al.? But the problem is that when you're just starting out in life, the absolute top priority is CAREER AND INCOME because what good is painting if you're a homeless hobo living on the streets begging for food? Those other things are great but first you need to generate revenue.
@@TSOTL-0302😮 Yo! I'm also from the UK and Mechatronics is what I want to do in uni next year. Which uni are you studying in? Is the staff great at teaching you?
Think hard about the degree you are choosing. The era 1960's where any college degree can lead to a job while supporting kids is long gone. What you study is far more important than where you study (not including for-profit colleges lol).
Exactly someone with a finance degree from UNLV is going to do better than a English major from Harvard
@@bolt7047 Correct.
@@bolt7047 oh why is english bad i heard that one was ok?
@@juice3287 because of the large amount of people that get it every year you need to get a masters or PhD to be competitive
I got lucky. I got a BA in ancient history in 1991, and have been working for auction houses which sell ancient coins since 1996. I'm very lucky as I'm at the top of my game and make decent money, but I could just as easily have wound up with a job as a bank teller or as used car salesman, etc.
If you take a BS or BA at a college they don't benefit from the University you will subsequently go to to do an MA or Doctorate. The college isn't intentionally undereducating you at BS / BA level so they can sell a higher degree. A PhD can also make you less employable because you are too specific at that point as opposed to an MA or MS which is more advanced but not overly specialized. A PhD may send you back to work in academia. The MA/MS may shorten or eliminate the experience requirement for BS/BA. There are for profit BA programs that knowingly sell a degree as a financial product and the whole thing is an upsell. But a good grade in most degrees from a good college can mean opportunities where those without degrees reach an advancement ceiling.
The world is competitive. This degree reduces the rate of competition.
"It teaches critical thinking skills"
I believe this is ideal, since anyone who chooses such degree probably doesn't have much skill in that department
And won't get it.
I totally agree on your critical thinking point. Most times you'll only see things from a single perspective and if you say something different to what your teacher thinks or says you won't propably get the grade you expect. I had to do an international German exam in order to graduate but the thing got cancelled in my country for almost a year and, though the university had the resources to offer an in-house exam and 10 students needed to graduate, they didn't want to help us because "the rules said we must take an International exam and we can't change the rules though we create them". And thanks to that kind of thinking we had to wait till november.
$80,000 to be concretely indoctrinated, sign me up!!
This video makes me feel better about majoring in HR
At least basket weaving is a marketable skill. It can _finally_ stop getting flak for this
A computer science degree doesn't tell you how to code any more than a mechanical engineering degree teaches you CAD. They both teach you how to understand and design those systems from a fundamentals perspective. CS grads are working at systems levels on Oracle etc. CS is the science of how computers work not how to code. It is about algorithms not Python lists.
I think he should've specified it teaches you to "code well" whether than simply "code". I can completely imagine a non CS grad who would do mistakes such as using a vector instead of a stack, who would use an array instead of a linked list, when those other data structures would be more optimal for that particular situation. Thus they might end up doing a O(n^2) algorithm for something that could be done in O(n)
Also he doesn't differentiate between coding and programming
Yeah fr especially would you said about auto cad my guy I’m a mis major and basically in the same boat as you
i’m graduating in a few weeks with my b.a. in organizational leadership. i know i know, sounds bad lol but honestly this was extremely useful and applicable to the job i’ve been at the past three years. and i was even promoted a few weeks ago. interdisciplinary degrees aren’t for everyone, but i believe i was blessed in my case.
Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! I'm just starting my journey now.
@@mason4966 thank you so much!! and i’m sending well wishes. what are you pursuing?
I'm about to end my third semester and going into my last of my second year then just two years left till I get my political science degree with a minor in creative writing and history.
From what people say, cybersecurity is a pretty hot topic.
Both great fields. Majoring and minoring in either together is a solid foundation for your opportunities.
@@shyjy6241 CS or EE all the way. I would not get a cyber security degree. If I was going into cyber security I would go the cert path
@@shyjy6241 Those are both solid fields and you won't go wrong with electrical engineering.
Cyber security is definitely the growing thing to master but electrical engineering goes hand in hand. IMO you can take either of those into industrial automation and become a necessary force in the world.
Any college degrees with the word “studies” in it is useless. I am an HR Manager by the way.
What about engineering studies?
at 1:00, I just realize that bro you an comedian too
Thanks for appreciating the humor!
Hey Shane, what is your opinion on being a student-athlete in college?
I was a student athlete. It was good for me to have something physical to do. I majored in mathematics and minored in computer science, religion, and humanities. I also worked part time. Some people need a physical outlet to compensate for all that studying.
It is really sad that students can get themselves into debt to major in stuff like this.
I'm an employer and if I see an applicant with a Gender Studies major or minor, that application will automatically go into the garbage. Most of them are unbearable to work with from my point of view. Even my female staff without Gender Studies degrees find their colleagues (who have a Gender Studies major or minor) to be very annoying.
Agreed, I can't think of a business owner I know that would want to hire someone with a gender studies degree.
Thank you for your service. They would just be looking for temp work until they can land a teaching position anyway.. I have a theory those people learn early on that normal folks won't tolerate their behavior, so they think if they can get in the door teaching classes of children.. the children will be much more open to listening to those people as they foam at the mouth to regurgitate all that they learned from gender studies.
If you think someone with a degree like that isn't qualified for a job, that's perfectly fair. However, you're making a generalization when you say "they're insufferable to work with" when you don't even know the people at all.
Do you think this because of actual experience, or did you conclude this from watching SJW owned compilations on TH-cam or Facebook?
Letting propaganda influence your job that other people depend on for a living is nothing short of shameful.
Do you think you're someone who should be in the position you're in?
Well, that women gender studies thing is like feminist who run wild. If you focuses on your gender only, you will think your gender are oppressed thousands of years by all man, when its only few man who oppressed all other women and man, just that man was not sexual abused. And hey, some of your female ancestors willing let the powerful man abuse!
@@StartsWithACee This comment section seems to be a right-wing echo chamber, so I'd wager the latter is more likely.
I will be studying a degree in animation. I am a former computer science student and realized that after trying so hard, programming just isn't for me.
I would argue that animation or any art degrees (those relating to visual arts or music) are far more valuable than an ultra weird degree like gender studies. Also, I live in a 3rd world country and my family are well off.
Besides, many jobs out there for programming don't even require degrees anymore. Yet we still recommend people to go for a computer science degree in college. I am mostly for what I can learn out of animation and art in general especially since it can be a challenge to only do self learning.
I’m a current animation student who is about to drop out. It’s nothing to do with the degree, I just realised that I don’t actually want a creative arts career. However, I can assure you that doing a degree in animation is really good. My uni at least had amazing facilities and staff with tons of industry experience. It also gives you the opportunity to build up a portfolio, make industry connections, have work placement in animation studios, and form creative connections with classmates. If you want a career in animation, going to a good uni course in it is absolutely worth it and is a great pathway in.
As an computer engineering student I'll make sure not to follow your steps and end up like you.
@@Determinator21 you make it sound like my decision is a bad one.
@@akizaizayoi4763 you gave up on the major you first selected, you choosed arts instead, friends who have chosen art majors are always suffering financially and even worse you live in a third world country and I know a friend with a trashy Mexican girlfriend with an art degree and she earns like 7 dollars a day
@@akizaizayoi4763 in my eyes you're a very good example of what to avoid in a student's path
Another question is: Which kind of professor would teach gender studies lectures?
History, English, international studies, etc. They always need English professors as it’s a requirement at most colleges.
The gender studies phenomena has poked through all universities, unfortunately the benefits have just become a political agenda, I prefer just sticking to strictly business, that's why I enjoy Shane's channel. Colleges nowadays have to provide these all encompassing diverse programs for access to the general public, producing more social workers, when it used to produce skilled workers, this is why we have a labor shortage.
well ill just do wgs major n a business minor
Is there any value in a degree like this for people who already know they want to go to graduate school and want an easy major that will boost their GPA to help get into say medical school?
Yes, you could do what you mentioned. Also, most employers don’t care that much about what your degree is as long as you can do basic technical stuff. Just supplement a cluster of business or technical courses.
An easy undergraduate degree will not help you get into medicine, medicine is very competitive. Do chemistry or biomedical science if you want to study medicine as a graduate.
Shane about to get cancelled for this one🤣
Honestly, as someone who has hired people, it's a shame universities even offer these types of degrees to young people. Its difficult for us to judge anything you know. And, they don't seem to be any more bright or enlighten than the avg info systems, engineering or finance major. Focus on a degree that teaches applicable skills!
Bingo, me and 99% of business owners I know wouldn't hire someone with a useless degree like this. It shows poor judgement and critical thinking skills etc.
@@ShaneHummus hmm. Why is it that investment banking hires so many arts graduates.
I knew someone who culled the pile of her employers applications to determine who to interview and who not to interview....She (and it was a woman) told me that anyone with a gender studies major or minor would instantly be placed in the "don't interview" stack, as history had shown her that they tended to have a chip on their shoulder, disliked men as a whole and seldom worked well in groups.
And nearly every one eventually filed a harassment suit of some sort.
True story.
@@hellogoodbye4061 may be some are like that. But I’ve seen plenty of people with “useless” degrees who are successful.
@@pranavpillai7778 And I've seen MORE than plenty of people with useless (no parentheses necessary) degrees who are quite unsuccessful and in loads of debt because of it. Now begone and go practice that lesbian dance theory move.
What do you think of an MPA degree? Thank you
Why does your video look like 480p while you have 2160p? Looks like a channel the size of mine, sometimes I wonder why some people have so much reach, and deliver crap quality on their channels SMH
Shane's presumption is that one goes to a college or university in order to earn more money. Is this truly what education means?
If you want to study simply for the sake of gaining knowledge, don't you think paying a lot to go to college would be stupid then? I mean, it's just investing and getting no returns. Pointless, imo.
@@sandhanitizerrYour assumption appears to be that the college you choose will not offer brains, scholarship, or expertise superior to your own. If this is the case, then, yes, spending money for such a mediocre school would be silly. On the other hand, as one who has studied and taught at several top universities I have had the good fortune to know some of the most amazing interpreters of the human condition.
@@jeremykeller211 are you saying that people go for education first, and then use it to earn money, while the creator of the video is saying that people want to earn money which is the reason they go to college, instead of being driven by the desire to seek knowledge and gain more skills?
Well then why not learn about gender from youtube or buy some books if you are that interested. Whats the point of taking huge loans just to be jobless after graduation? It is a scam to generate more profit by univeristies
18 year old's aren't financially stable enough to spend 50k on college not to get a career out of it. Nobody's worried about the financially stable 40 year old's who go back to college to get a degree in history.
People that sell this gender study degree should be suied and pay every penny of anyone they ever scammed. They are the worse than a Nigerian prince who want to give me million of dollars in my junk email honestly😂
I totally regret majoring in industrial engineering now lol. It sucks so bad designing and managing quality management systems and audit them.
While I do think certain courses related to the degree could be nice to take as an elective or for personal/moral interest, to push it as a degree or major is completely wrong and a cash grab as most degrees. It's just not practical. All of the information that you can learn from this degree can easily be learned online for free. I would only take those courses as electives, never as a major choice.
Agree - I believe gender is something which must be studied, especially since it’s such a topical issue these days. However, I would never pick it as my major. Maybe I’ll take some electives or do my own learning online but I don’t want it to be my main thing. I feel like it could be okay if you have it as a minor or double major combined with a more practical skill however
@cz Yes I completely agree
They should rename this Grievance Studies, since that's all that they do.
This is terrible I’m watching advice for college to procrastinate my college work
Liberal Arts degrees aren't as popular anymore, but they can be really useful. Especially for people wanting to attend graduate school. Writing/Research skills are becoming exceedingly rare, particularly among those in STEM.
As someone who grades undergraduate writing on a daily basis, trust me...many 18-20 year old STEM majors have little to no writing/editing/critical thinking ability that can be expressed through writing.
I also think the argument "you can learn all of that online" is hilariously bad. Getting feedback is one of the primary ways to learn writing skills and hardly anyone actually learns to write on their own time.
Well they are many folks in STEM Degrees that can write better than in Liberal Arts degrees shocking right????
@@audiesancio2495 Not on average. STEM majors consistently score much lower on writing tests like the GRE. It's not hard to believe, they have much less practice than students who study topics that require more reading/writing for coursework.
@@michaeldillman1660 liberal arts degrees can be augmented if you supplement a cluster of business or technical courses.
Using grades based on 18-20 year olds seems pointless. Being a STEM major, you have to learn how to research and communicate very technical fields to various audiences as well as understand and write research papers and lab reports. Running experiments requires you to know how to safely operate equipment which also requires you to comprehend SOPs. That’s extremely rich to l mention how STEM majors lack critical thinking skills. They probably just didn’t care enough to put more effort in your class.
I'm a masters student in chemical engineering who could not agree more.
Hello Shane, I wanted to get more information about the major Public Administration, it’s more of a lowkey major and it is broad but I would love if u made a video about it please
Thank u Shane
Thank you for this video. Could you please do an analysis on microbiology as an undergraduate degree?
You're welcome! Maybe in the future
You're better off doing biochemistry. You could still get any job a BSc in microbiology could get, but it opens up way more other opportunities.
@@jonclarke8397 Funny you should say this, since I ended up double-majoring in biochemistry and genetics.
@@daynebose5721 great choice! I doubled in chemistry and Microbiology. I love microbiology but the job prospects at the bachelor's level are basically zero and people without microbiology degrees end up filling them anyway from my experience in industry.
@@jonclarke8397 Agreed!
2:39 Couldn’t say it any better. Many Colleges have become the place of group think with no room for debate.
What’s your doctorate in?
It's sad people actually take these.
Hater
@@CreativeUsernameEh gender studies is useless, prove me wrong.
Bro STEM contribute to society way more lol gender study is actually useless.
@@CreativeUsernameEh
Yes, I hate anything that has to do with feminists.
Josh's IT-Support course sounds a little better for employment than gender-studies.
It's night and day
Would you say that digital marketing is more important than sales or vice versa?
Depends really
This degree, is how to explain to outreach philosophers, that they're queer, for getting in your face. Just because you don't take the course, to make someone queer for getting in your face, or take the major, because you saw someone get pigged, doesn't mean that speaking lies to assumed sexual trauma (from losing an argument related to a recording house argument, the common rape victim), is useless.
I have done B.A in English. So now um looking to read a programme for MASTERS, so cn u mention the worth MASTERS PROGRAMMES for high salary job??
This is why I follow this channel
This is what I would recommend for my children in the future: Do science as a profession, do art as a hobby. Even a mediocre person with a scientific profession can create value, but if you are an artist you have to be the very best otherwise you are screwed.
She says everybody has a "gender". Honestly, I don't. Or at least I think I don't... I mean I know that I'm a man because I have a male body, meaning i belong to the category of the male sex. And i definately feel comfortable with my body. Meaning I am psychologically healthy in the sense that I have no dysphoria. But i don't know what "gender" is. Never heard anyone providing a sensible definition of that term which is not circular and not purely subjective.
I agree with you that not everyone ascribes to a gender. An easy way to define gender (though some may disagree with this one) is that we associate certain archetypes to the female and male sex (a woman is kind and nurturing, a man strong and blah blah blah). Gender is often used to refer to these archetypes in a way separate from biological sex. The idea of a woman and man, rather than the chromosomes.
There are multiple ways in which we experience gender. A lot of people feel the need to perform as a gender. It sounds like you don't have this, which is probably for the best. We also experience gender socially. When people see you, they will often attribute a gender to you and associate certain expectations to it.
I hope this helps. Gender has a bit more of a social context (though some argue it is part biological) than sex which is meant to be purely biological. This separation is useful because it allows us to distinguish between biological and social effects. In your case, you identify that you are of the male sex, while also recognizing that you do not feel the pressure to perform according to the gender, the societal expectations that come with that.
The principal issue I have with your channel is that University is a place of curiosity, learning, and personal growth. Our capitalistic society (yes I went there) are the ones that put pressure on the individual to monetize everything. Not anything wrong with that, but god bless the few remaining bastions of Knowledge and Learning and Curiosity that remain in our world. God bless the university!
Gender Studies a bastion of Knowledge?
Yeah spend 80 thousand dolllars for something bullshit
Pressure that monetize everything???? Is this degree free???
You must be privileged (yeah I went there) if you don’t have to think about how much that degree costs and how you have to pay it back somehow
@@Laura-Yu That money is useless if you've killed yourself over realizing a meaningless existence because you never had a chance to find out why you are alive to begin with. Survival is not living.
Next person to be cancelled 😂
What was the Reddit channel?
University and free-online-xyz are not equivalent, in the slightest. Anyone can read a book from the library or listen to a lecture from harvard. It's not the same dear. Having that relationship with your classmates and professors is what helps to nurture your growth and intellect, and to help ultimately guide you toward your point in life. Watching a youtube video on astrophysics wont do that.
I'm all for following your passion, but I think the most important point you made here is that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to do that. I can't think of any job that requires a degree specifically in gender studies, and you can learn about it from any free online course without having to spend money on an "official" degree, those people saying "you don't only go to college just to make money" I agree, but you don't need to SPEND money to learn either.
No job training, no certification, no job. Better off getting a Bachelors in Social Work and get into a one year Social work Masters.
i work in the government, i know a variety of people who work in different government agencies and they have a degree in gender studies
Hi Shane, can you make a review about BS in Professional Studies?
Any one have a link to that reddit?
I’m doing Elbow studies. Why not, everyone has it
Hi, humus, if the major ended with studies are not recommendable, (i agree with this x studies that you mentioned in this videos).
And i found another x studies major such as, oriental studies, library and information studies, performance studies, theater studies, how about those majors
I would argue my degree is on the same level as useless as this one. Sociology. Like … what was i thinking ?
rip
You can use SS as a pre law Bachelors degree. Not all degrees can claim that.
"Here we go now, a sociology lecture with a bit of neurology and bit of fuckology...No Fun"
It's a popular pre-law degree- go to law school my guy
Just start brainstorming some practical applications for Sociology or maybe an extension of Sociology into graduate school.
Hey Shane how useful is a BA majoring in Politics and economics with management as a minor
Hey I’m a double major in finance and Econ, I know a thing or two about Econ. So a lot of what you learn in econ is super theoretical, you can go two routes, one where you focus on theory (Philsophy, hostory etc.) and the other where you focus on the quantitative side. I highly recommend the quantitive courses like econometrics, business forecasting, banking courses etc. these courses give you skills that can be applied to a plethora of rolls like being business analyst, financial analyst, data scientist etc. Being an Econ major your up against Finance/accounting majors, comp sci majors, and data science majors for jobs; landing your first job can be very difficult, but when you do land a job/internship, it will only be up from there. Hope this helps!
@@ukasxm8245 thank you so much this helps a lot
As a potential employer, I would never hire someone with a gender studies degree. Folks, let get real.....a gender studies degree screams HR nightmare.
If I hire you with your gender studies degree I have to factor in the copious time and resources drain that you will be on the HR department. 😂
Yup basically if you are planning to go to grad school to become a lawyer or something to the like you can just choose any major and if you want to get a job that doesn't require a degree don't even bother. There's no need to get a gender studies degree because it doesn't give you any benefit that you can't gain just as easily another way.
Bachelors usually helps in most cases. Also, supplementing business or technical courses can help augment a useless degree. Other jobs don’t absolutely care what your degree is. No degree is useless.
@@pranavpillai7778 Well like you've said they don't care what degree you have so you can pick anything, it doesn't have to be gender studies.
@@Laz3rCat95 true. Most employers don’t really care too much about what you degree is as long as you can do basic technical stuff. If they ask why should I hire you as an arts graduate? Respond by explaining the value of your arts degree.
@@pranavpillai7778Might as well get a STEM degree then.
@@Laura-Yu you should follow your passion.
These degrees are easy to get you just have to read feminist books and reviews and with just that you can have a PhD.
Die your hair pink, have a lot of tattoos, pierce your nose and insert a ring, wear a pyjama, say you hate men and you have the adequate look for the exams.
No pain and huge gains. Easy-peasy.
they don't accept critical thinking when it questions the assumptions and foundations of the study itself. they only encourage yes-women group think.
I almost choose this degree the instructor for the senior level class for the major said something about once you go and get your masters, so you were expected to get a master's degree. People that probably from this major come from the city and applies to them more but if you are from a small town that's very republican and conservative than that degree definitely won't work. If you get a business degree, its employers will look and think same old shit different day and go in the trash.
0:38 BUT... What is a woman?
Matt Walsh vibes
This degree program teaches the essentials: what short, tall, grande, venti, and trenta means.
So gender makes up a huge part of civilization. We should definitely study it. Misunderstandings arise when people do not see that women’s studies is a multidisciplinary degree.
I have one.
I now work in home for IDD women, some who are able to work, and I make them meals from the Women’s Home Companion Recipe book.
What were women like back then? I’ve got some mainstream movies, a book from English class in high school, biological depictions of sexual parts, psychology of man and woman in a specific framework central to building upon high school knowledge, some fashion excerpts and my grandma. Human beings deserve a closer study than that.
Did the microwave help or harm women? Technology and women have a very unique relationship, as technology provided for women usually is related directly to meeting basic needs, or managing a home. Yet, microwaves are also dangerous, they take us away from cooking fresh food and connecting over the meal preparation, they sort of make recipes moot, and yet people idolize these 50s women. Look at the football player and his graduation speech. To him, men were made men from TV dinners. Why? Because focusing on women’s work and using technology to make her life easier and more expedient makes men feel good, and men want to protect the women, it’s just another knight and stranded princess story. And the microwave is also the dragon.
See you next time on reality checks for people who think real degrees are in business in rooms full of students no one bothered to insure were diversified because business heads shouldn’t practice from the get go how to mass market except from a textbook at best.
This channel derides college degrees and accuses colleges of down grading and upselling and "marketing" their learning programs that they have not taken or attended while promoting the debatable digital marketing learning platforms and programs they push market to people in the comments. Essentially digitally marketing digital marketing courses by deriding college level courses with a broad brush. Gender studies may not make bank or interest everyone. Just like Physics. So why not NOT study either of these anymore. Digital marketing does and can be made to sound as bunk and BS as Gender Studies to a good number of people. The people who try a digital marketing course also likely lack the critical thinking skills mentioned in the video and that is why they are trying the next fad buzzword "no degree required" career experiment - digital marketing.
Shane, at the University of Louisville, we value everyone’s opinion equally, including yours. However, we believe your thoughts on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as on other liberal arts degrees, is too narrow.
It is our mission to provide education options and empower our students to go on and build a society and a world where people lift each other up, not tear each other apart. This is a degree with a personal connection that aims to prepare students to advocate for themselves and other vulnerable populations that have been historically excluded and discriminated against or subjected to physical and emotional abuse or violence. It is not for everyone, and that’s okay. For many of our students, this degree provides an opportunity to build a strong foundation in traditional educational fields while gaining a deeper, and sometimes different, perspective on issues that affect them and those around them.
UofL offers outstanding degrees in areas such as medicine, law and engineering, which I think you would agree are “useful.” But there is plenty of room in this world - as well as job opportunities - for people who graduate with degrees in programs such as women’s and gender studies.
John Drees
University of Louisville
Can you do a video on sports psychology ??
The purpose of a gender studies degree is not to add value to companies but to extract value from companies using blackmail.
I graduated with a masters degree in gender studies at 2 years old!
As soon as I could say Mommy and Daddy!
I am only here after seeing a video of Candace Owens talk about how useless Gender Studies is
PhD here, university is useless most of the time. Especially at the higher levels, experience is king
Hello seth. I hope you can reply me. Kind of off topic to this video. But, will it be okay if I pursue MIS in bachelor's and post Diploma on HR...! PLEASE REPLY 🤲🤲🤲
The weenus degree would actually be 4x more valuable than gender studies
lol
Any idea which college offers this? seems like a great one to get for $80,000, everyone has a weenus!
@@joememmott6765 most have two weenuses!
Gender studies was my major and I work for immigration services under refugee/asylum so I’m very useful. All of my peers have relevant work if not doing post bachelors degree. No barista, no fast food, no minimum wage, etc after college degree. A lot of peers work in West Virginia where the average median income for one person ~26k a year so income can be subjective and not all of my peers choose high paying job. Also, $0 in student loans as my parents paid in full and saved ahead of time.
@ChrisReynolds-yn5rs That’s just for the average median income for West Virginia regardless of job. But yeah it’s quite low for the poor state. Even some tech majors or similar majors above $26k but under $30k. My peers do not make that low but what they make would not fully work in California, Hawaii, etc.
I still don’t think it’s worth all those money to major in though. I don’t have daddies money, so I rather major in something like STEM instead of gender studies.
@@tcg-astral So many stem majors I know don’t have relevant work and not because it’s a useless stem major. Biology is a subjective major. I already know people who switched out of stem just for a relevant job and it worked. I have friends who doubled majored in deemed useless major and stem just to find work in deemed useless major. Stem major was just to make parents happy. My gender studies peers aren’t struggling if they choose to find work and not study post bachelors.
We need to create more jobs for gender studies graduates! I'm a masters student in chemical engineering and based on my job search experience, most engineering hiring managers don't have the critical reading skills to read a resume.