A new take on arts degrees

dilbert2

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

• McDonaldsology
• Burger King toilet cleaning theory
• Do you want fries with that?
• Philosophy: to fries or to chips?
• Sociology according to Ronald McDonald

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

• McDonaldsology
• Burger King cleaning theory
• Philosophy of fries
• Philosophy: to fries or to chips?
• Sociology according to Ronald McDonald

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

Art forum -->

Redlion

OP, ya clearly missed the module on originality last semester...

coffeelover

Yet another thread dissing arts :rolleyes:

Turtyturd

You failed funnyology op.

Bueller

Rubbish

Ev84

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

Did anyone else read that line as a few nude models?

El Siglo

I've actually died a little in replying to such a retarded thread. Must be a slow day in AH...

dilbert2

dilbert2 wrote: »

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

Pity.

Piriz

Hi op,
i started out with doing an arts degree...believe it or not it led to a masters in engineering which led to a professional MSc course in health care science which my specific qualification is essentially a passport to any country and job in the world and provides well financially too..
some people who do arts degrees are ambitious, pursue their interests, allow their interests to develop, have the ability and will to change direction and become more successful and satisfied than you....

so next time you see an arts degree and wish to wipe your arse with it...you should wash your face with it after.. so you can be perhaps a tad more presentable...

if you did an arts degree you might become more imaginative than your original post suggests! at least you can use copy and paste, go you!

Helix

people who have the big grin emoticon on their posts usually post the least funny threads

Salty

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

• McDonaldsology
• Burger King toilet cleaning theory
• Do you want fries with that?
• Philosophy: to fries or to chips?
• Sociology according to Ronald McDonald

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

Sorry but you're lousy.
I can't understand where this idea that an arts degree is pointless and is only for people with zero ambition came from.

I'm nearing the end of 6th year and want to do a degree in speech and language therapy, but at the moment, I'm doubting I'll manage to get the points. If (when:() I don't get them, I plan on doing an arts degree and choosing subjects which will be relevant to a post-grad in sp&lang. It's as good a degree as any other, and presents a lot of oppurtunities to people, probably more so than most degrees.

The last thing anybody wants is people like yourself making fun of their degree and belittling their studies and work. For me, if I miss out on my first choice, I don't want people reminding me of that and then rubbishing what I'm doing instead. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Helix

_meehan_ wrote: »

I can't understand where this idea that an arts degree is pointless and is only for people with zero ambition came from.

honestly, its because most people do them coz they dont know what else to do, yet still feel they should go to college. great course for people who actually have an idea how to use it, complete waste of time and resources for the people who are doing it just to do something (which makes up about 80% of people i know who have done arts degrees in college)

happyoutscan

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My name is URL

Oh Dilbert you little scamp you.. whatever will you get up to next

CreepingDeath

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light

I think arts degrees should be printed on soft absorbent paper.

randylonghorn

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

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Recycle Bin -->

Though given how many times this one has already been recycled, probably needs to go to the landfill.

bodice ripper

I think my degree qualified as an "arts degree", and it was 40 odd hours a week.

Redlion

If it helps, I wish to do an arts degree in the hopes that I'll reach a teaching or journalist's position. In those circumstances, I would not call it a waste.

Nuigforce

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

• McDonaldsology
• Burger King toilet cleaning theory
• Do you want fries with that?
• Philosophy: to fries or to chips?
• Sociology according to Ronald McDonald

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

(Current arts student)
I actually can take the wisecracks if their funny, but lord god:mad:

dilbert2

Ok, I've been reading some of the posts here. Maybe some people study arts in the hope of going somewhere in life, but if we are to be honest with ourselves most arts programs are refuges for dossers who want to avoid work for a few years.

Studying a science degree is hard work. While science students are acutally studying, most arts students are out on the piss.

Still though if pays off in the end on the harder courses when jobs comeabout, can't say the same about arts most of the time.

dilbert2

Piriz wrote: »

Hi op,
i started out with doing an arts degree...believe it or not it led to a masters in engineering which led to a professional MSc course in health care science which my specific qualification is essentially a passport to any country and job in the world and provides well financially too..
some people who do arts degrees are ambitious, pursue their interests, allow their interests to develop, have the ability and will to change direction and become more successful and satisfied than you....

so next time you see an arts degree and wish to wipe your arse with it...you should wash your face with it after.. so you can be perhaps a tad more presentable...

if you did an arts degree you might become more imaginative than your original post suggests! at least you can use copy and paste, go you!

I have never heard of engineering been offered as an arts degree, and unless you did an undergrad in engineering there is no way on earth you would make it onto a masters in engineering.

Maybe if you had done physics or mathematics as part of that degree, it would be a slight possibility, but anything else would lead to nothing but a masters in social engineering.

To be honest it sounds like you may have done science subjects as parts of an your arts degree, most people don't. And if you did, then I may believe what you just said.

Naikon

Why the fcuk are Hons arts degrees only three years in length? So an arts grad potentially has a masters by the time I finish my degree? Bull**** I say.

dizzywizlw

Thanks to the UNESCO classification body my BA has led into postgraduate study in an Ms Sc. despite being anti-rationalist.

O-Deazy

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ok, I've been reading some of the posts here. Maybe some people study arts in the hope of going somewhere in life, but if we are to be honest with ourselves most arts programs are refuges for dossers who want to avoid work for a few years.

Studying a science degree is hard work. While science students are acutally studying, most arts students are out on the piss.

Still though if pays off in the end on the harder courses when jobs comeabout, can't say the same about arts most of the time.

You're making some ridiculous generalisations here.. First I'm pretty sure the majority of people that do arts courses aren't just dossers looking to avoid work for a few years. I'd say the majority of people who do arts degrees either plan on going into teaching or aren't sure of what they want to do so an arts degree helps them figure this out!

I'm sure a science degree is hard, but if you want to get a good arts degree as in a first, its no simple task either. And yea, all us arts students do is go on the piss :rolleyes:

Salty

dilbert2 wrote: »

I have never heard of engineering been offered as an arts degree, and unless you did an undergrad in engineering there is no way on earth you would make it onto a masters in engineering.

Maybe if you had done physics or mathematics as part of that degree, it would be a slight possibility, but anything else would lead to nothing but a masters in social engineering.

To be honest it sounds like you may have done science subjects as parts of an your arts degree, most people don't. And if you did, then I may believe what you just said.

In fairness, why would they lie?

randylonghorn

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ok, I've been reading some of the posts here. Maybe some people study arts in the hope of going somewhere in life, but if we are to be honest with ourselves most arts programs are refuges for dossers who want to avoid work for a few years.

Studying a science degree is hard work. While science students are acutally studying, most arts students are out on the piss.

Really?

Odd ...

I did Arts as my first degree because I loved history with a passion (and still do, for that matter). I don't deny for a moment that I had a good social life in college ... and for that matter would recommend that everyone does, you won't be circa 18 - 21 and in college ever again in your life.

I also went to most of my lectures, and did the reading and study necessary to cover my course and get a decent grade. And that meant a hell of a lot of reading ... a 3 page reading list per module was nothing, and while it wasn't expected that you read *everything*, if you wanted a decent grade you certainly needed to make a decent attack on it.

On the other hand, I currently have a younger friend who is doing science in college. He goes to a lot of his labs / practicals all right, damn few of his lectures (after all, as he tells me, they're all on Blackboard!), and to the best of my knowledge has never opened a textbook ... he certainly doesn't possess one! He's seldom out of bed before lunch-time, and while he's not much of a drinker, between sports and online gaming and a girlfriend and other interests, studying seems to be the lowest of his priorities.

A week before the exams, he crams crams crams. And gets away with it, fair play to him, and is currently maintaining a 2H1 average.

But where's the "science students have to work really hard, and all arts students are dossers" there? And tbh, I didn't notice any such thing when I was in college myself either, and I had a fair few friends in the Science faculty.

A higher number of actual contact hours, esp. in terms of labs / practicals, whereas arts students were expected to do more reading etc. independently, that's all the difference I ever saw.

WoollyRedHat

Art degrees are actually highly sought for at the moment, next to science believe it or not by Employers and such.

So you can stick that up your test tube and smoke it.

Naikon

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Art degrees are actually highly sought for at the moment, next to science believe it or not by Employers and such.

So you can stick that up your test tube and smoke it.

-_-

Mind you, all arts courses aren't created equal. I reckon some arts courses are more difficult than others, just like some science courses are harder than others. For example, Engineering is FAR harder than the stuff covered in my area.

WoollyRedHat

Are you talking about the make up of the degree or the actual colleges who provide them?

Naikon

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Are you talking about the make up of the degree or the actual colleges who provide them?

The indivdual courses. No two courses are exactly the same.

TrustedApple

There is noting wrong with arts

I will be hoping to do multimedia in September which is a arts degree in the college but a science degree every where else. But I Will have 31 hour weeks to look forward to then studying on top of that.

But i will come out with a lot of areas i can work in i can go into computers, music,video games and the media from it

I was doing Info systems this year but droped out and i hated it is was post to be computers but it was basicly what i done in in leaving cert business with VB programing i was getting top marks in the test i done eg about 20 % higher then must but i hated it.

Really why do we have to do a degree that might make it easier to get a job then your own degree

Really at the end of the day do what ever you fell is right

Also dont make fun of peoples degrees in boards also there is noting wrong in work in any of those places

Arts is just a continuation of secondary school.

Naikon

Deleted User wrote: »

Arts is just a continuation of secondary school.

Like most degrees these days tbh.

WallyGUFC

dilbert2 wrote: »

Ive been thinking, seen as arts degrees are so light on hours shouldn't they be adding in a few new modules such as

• McDonaldsology
• Burger King toilet cleaning theory
• Do you want fries with that?
• Philosophy: to fries or to chips?
• Sociology according to Ronald McDonald

I'm sorry I couldn't help it.

Jealous that he didn't get enough points so he's had to go for jam making in Carlow.

El Siglo

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Jealous that he didn't get enough points so he's had to go for jam making in Carlow.

Harsh... :pac:

TheZohanS

Nuigforce wrote: »

(Current arts student)
I actually can take the wisecracks if their funny, but lord god:mad:

It's "they're".

Sorry!:P

dr.bollocko

Maybe build a time machine and then go back about 30 years.... Invent boards.ie, make a humour forum and post there.