What Does One Do With An AFAM Degree

[BigBlueFanGA]

I can't resist, no offense intended, just being funny.

1. Community Activist - could lead you all the way to president.
2. Black Lives Matter Activist - could lead you to being labeled a terrorist.
3. Professional Protestor/Activist - yep, we need more of those.
4. Host a show on MSNBC - you could get your message out to dozens of people that way.
5. Ivy League Professor - they don't seem to demand standards anymore other than hating white people, police, the military and our country in general.

Huh, way more options than I originally thought.

 

[gjcollins79]

Hate to say it but the majority of undergrad degrees are worthless. Gradute school is really where people learn things they can actually use in a career.

I was a psychology major and I ended up going to business school.

Got a communications degree and wound up with a MBA

 

[PhattyJ4UK_rivals309166]

I think it's to look in magazines and twitter for store ads to point out totally fabricated ways ads are racist

 

[bthaunert]

I'm not sure what you are suggesting about Classics or Romance language degrees (French/Spanish / Portuguese/ Catalonian/Italian/ etc.).These degrees have great value in numerous careers.

I could be mistaken. I could see getting a minor in Greek or Latin, and majoring in international business or something like that. I would love to know (just generally curious) what kind of job a major in Classics will get you?

 

[yoshukai]

Pretty sure that's what Obama majored in . EDIT Sorry, should have read the whole thread before posting.

 

[awf]

They majored in "Eligibility". I think it's no coincidence that AFAM was chosen for their fake class scam; they probably figured no one would have the nerve to question it.

BINGO! The fact remains that it was a good strategy. It worked for them for two decades!

 

[Dore95]

Lots of idiocy in this thread. I doubt some of the people who are disparaging this major even went to college. As someone said, it's a liberal arts degree. I assume its interdisciplinary, and involves African American Literature, History, Sociology and other classes. You get a degree in that and you typically go on to grad school, the same way you would if you majored in History, English, Poli Sci, etc..

 

[Teachable Moe]

Long past the point to move the thread over to the Politics tab.

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

Forgive me but I am very, very old school and we didn't have these degrees when I graduated. So if I had one what would I do with it? What kind of a job would I be looking for? Where would I go for employment? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Banks and liquor stores.

 

[gollumcat]

I believe it qualifies you to indoctrinate young minds on college campuses via some sort of amorphic "diversity" discipllne or department.

 

[John Henry]

Well the next question would be, does the University of Kentucky have such a program or does UNC have all the rights to such classes?

 

[Blueworld_3.0]

Lots of idiocy in this thread. I doubt some of the people who are disparaging this major even went to college. As someone said, it's a liberal arts degree. I assume its interdisciplinary, and involves African American Literature, History, Sociology and other classes. You get a degree in that and you typically go on to grad school, the same way you would if you majored in History, English, Poli Sci, etc..

Yup and most of the time on the taxpayer's dime. Which I'm fine with as long as we pay for fewer liberal arts degrees and more engineers and scientists.

 

[catsfanbgky]

NBA and NFL are a couple careers you could look into. If of course you are pretty athletic, have a specific trade. Even pays pretty damn good. Better than most careers with a lot more education,,, and student loans pay. Let see, go to college 5-8 years, take out $200k in loans, become a professional, make $100-150k per year, or work hard in the gym / field, take easy classes, work hard on your god given talent, leave school after 1-2 years, no loans (not that you really have to pay back,, wink, wink), then make millions in a 5-10 year span, then blow it all on bling, cars, baby mommas, houses, bottle service and jewelry. EASY CHOICE.

 

[starchief]

I actually got, among other things, a degree in African American studies.

I worked in pro sports for a number of years, and then became a teacher.



Not sure if you are looking for a real answer, of course But it is similar to the non-skill related degrees that lead to pre-med and the like

Teaching AFAM studies, no doubt.

 

[crazyqx83_rivals88013]

Hate to say it but the majority of undergrad degrees are worthless. Gradute school is really where people learn things they can actually use in a career.

I was a psychology major and I ended up going to business school.

Universities and their degrees weren't started for people to learn a vocation. They were started for already rich people to get enlightened and refine their understanding of latin, prose and history.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Sue O'Malley: What are you majoring in?

Joel: Russian literature and Slavic languages.

Sue O'Malley: Oh wow, that's pretty interesting. What career track is that?

Joel: Cabby, hot dog vendor, marijuana delivery guy. The world is my oyster.

 

[Blueworld_3.0]

Universities and their degrees weren't started for people to learn a vocation. They were started for already rich people to get enlightened and refine their understanding of latin, prose and history.

Then why do so many jobs require a degree to even be considered? But, that's good to hear. Guess college attendees can do without student loans, Pell Grants and other financial assistance then.

 

[crazyqx83_rivals88013]

Then why do so many jobs require a degree to even be considered? But, that's good to hear. Guess college attendees can do without student loans, Pell Grants and other financial assistance then.

I guess museums, zoos, etc. Can do without grants, public bonds and other financial assistance.

Sounds like you don't know much about grants, universities, etc.

 

[Blueworld_3.0]

I guess museums, zoos, etc. Can do without grants, public bonds and other financial assistance.

Sounds like you don't know much about grants, universities, etc.

You said "Universities and their degrees weren't started for people to learn a vocation. They were started for already rich people to get enlightened and refine their understanding of latin, prose and history."
I inferred that being rich, they wouldn't/shouldn't need taxpayer funded financial assistance.
Seems pretty easy to understand actually but, I see now I should have made an allowance. Maybe there's a liberal arts degree for that too.

 

[starchief]

Then why do so many jobs require a degree to even be considered? But, that's good to hear. Guess college attendees can do without student loans, Pell Grants and other financial assistance then.

Because employers know that you have to graduate college to know as much as you used to know as a high school graduate.

 

[WayneDougan_rivals170043]

Because employers know that you have to graduate college to know as much as you used to know as a high school graduate.

Nah - it's an easy way to quickly separate the dopes from the smarts. Yeah, it's not a perfect system, but it's cheap.

 

[crazyqx83_rivals88013]

You said "Universities and their degrees weren't started for people to learn a vocation. They were started for already rich people to get enlightened and refine their understanding of latin, prose and history."
I inferred that being rich, they wouldn't/shouldn't need taxpayer funded financial assistance.
Seems pretty easy to understand actually but, I see now I should have made an allowance. Maybe there's a liberal arts degree for that too.

University funding from public sources isn't new. Basically all boomers that got a degree at a public university benefited more by public funding than anyone has recently. Go ***** at the boomers.

 

[KingOfBBN]

I don't know what you can do with it but I'll axe somebody.

 

[Ben101er]

"What does one do with an AFAM degree?" Testify at NCAA hearings. :sunglasses:

 

[JohnnyGentle]

It's a liberal arts degree. I got one and worked from the day I graduated in tech. My wife has a liberal arts degree and has had several jobs. Some involving fairly high tech. Ditto our daughter. Almost all of our friends and their children have liberal arts degrees of one kind or another. All are employed. The idea that college is supposed to be a trade school is a recent one.

don't interrupt the white male victimhood party with reality again

 

[JohnnyGentle]

alot of these degrees are to give a person diversity when apply for things like law school, dental school, med school, pa school, etc, helps them look better on paper and helps the university fill a quota

yeah majoring in af am studies means you can apply to grad schools as a black person

that's how it works

 

[TheDude1]

Teaching AFAM studies, no doubt.

Three undergrad degrees... History, religion, and African American studies. Now an elementary school teacher

As a few people have said, unless you are getting a degree with a real specific aim (for example, something for premed) it doesn't really matter. I knew that I wouldn't end up in medicine, so who cares beyond that?

 

[allabouttheUK]

It's my experience that more than not, people with Liberal Arts degrees are just annoying ********. They think they are better than everyone else because they can spout off some historical ******** about a philosopher from centuries ago.
The people who get technical degrees, those are the people you can have a conversation with and not want to slit their throat. They are confident in their abilities and themselves and don't feel a need to show everyone.

Again, just personal experience.

 

[TheDude1]

It's my experience that more than not, people with Liberal Arts degrees are just annoying ********. They think they are better than everyone else because they can spout off some historical ******** about a philosopher from centuries ago.
The people who get technical degrees, those are the people you can have a conversation with and not want to slit their throat. They are confident in their abilities and themselves and don't feel a need to show everyone.

Again, just personal experience.

Hm, that sounds very much like personal experience, as you say. I know dozens and dozens of people with various liberal arts degrees, and they vary as much as just about any other type of people... some fun, some smart, some annoying... it is SUCH a huge swath of people, it feels like as much a generalization as "people with college degrees" or "people who didn't finish high school" or whathaveyou.

 

[allabouttheUK]

Hm, that sounds very much like personal experience, as you say. I know dozens and dozens of people with various liberal arts degrees, and they vary as much as just about any other type of people... some fun, some smart, some annoying... it is SUCH a huge swath of people, it feels like as much a generalization as "people with college degrees" or "people who didn't finish high school" or whathaveyou.

I should have included the few, very few I have come across that aren't as I stated above. I've just found the Liberal Arts crowd to be very pretentious and arrogant. Don't find that as much with the working degrees. (Yes, I know they are all working degrees)

 

[TheDude1]

I should have included the few, very few I have come across that aren't as I stated above. I've just found the Liberal Arts crowd to be very pretentious and arrogant. Don't find that as much with the working degrees. (Yes, I know they are all working degrees)

Yeah, different experience for me. In fact, the two biggest dicks I know of my core group of friends were computer science people

Let me ask... is your social circle mostly college-educated folks? Only college-educated folks? Only some? Just curious, not passing judgement or anything.

 

[allabouttheUK]

Yeah, different experience for me. In fact, the two biggest dicks I know of my core group of friends were computer science people

Let me ask... is your social circle mostly college-educated folks? Only college-educated folks? Only some? Just curious, not passing judgement or anything.

Mine is based mostly on working experience. I've worked around nurses, engineers, techs, military. It's easier and more pleasant for me to have a conversation with an engineer than it is someone with an arts degree. Of course some of my opinion is probably based on my last experience. The dude was a total douche-bag. lol
I admit I have met a few that were ok, and didn't feel the need to act better than everyone else. Mechanical engineers are probably the easiest of the group for me to hold a conversation with.

 

[We-Todd-Did]

Any degree shows that you are a person who can learn easily and complete a very large and complicated task. I know someone who became an energy exec with a degree in Portuguese.

Something that throws a huge red flag with me is a person who tries to ridicule or downplay the value of education. If a person talks about their "common sense", being a graduate of the school of hard knocks, or brags of their street smarts, I know I'm dealing with a moron.

 

[allabouttheUK]

Any degree shows that you are a person who can learn easily and complete a very large and complicated task. I know someone who became an energy exec with a degree in Portuguese.

Something that throws a huge red flag with me is a person who tries to ridicule or downplay the value of education. If a person talks about their "common sense", being a graduate of the school of hard knocks, or brags of their street smarts, I know I'm dealing with a moron.

I'm all for education, so please don't misconstrue what I have said. However I feel that the most productive people have a good balance of both "common sense" and education. Hell, some of the most brilliant business people today are college dropouts. My point is a college degree shouldn't define a persons intelligence.

 

[We-Todd-Did]

I'm all for education, so please don't misconstrue what I have said. However I feel that the most productive people have a good balance of both "common sense" and education. Hell, some of the most brilliant business people today are college dropouts. My point is a college degree shouldn't define a persons intelligence.

It doesn't define it but it is a pretty solid indicator if a person has a degree. I know some people who didn't go to college that are brilliant but I don't know many who have completed a degree that I would call unproductive.

 

[allabouttheUK]

It doesn't define it but it is a pretty solid indicator if a person has a degree. I know some people who didn't go to college that are brilliant but I don't know many who have completed a degree that I would call unproductive.

I never meant to imply they weren't productive individuals...actually my comments were more about the type of degree rather than having or have not.

 

[Big_Blue79]

alot of these degrees are to give a person diversity when apply for things like law school, dental school, med school, pa school, etc, helps them look better on paper and helps the university fill a quota

Aside from maybe engineering, your degree does not come into play for law school admissions. Pure numbers, with a sprinkling of minor plus factors like AA, Native Indian, military service, or Teach for America.

 

[domino79]

By reading the responses, Im guessing there weren't a lot of English majors in this thread either.

 

[allabouttheUK]

Didn't realize we were being graded.

 

[JumperJack]

Actually I think black history is quite an interesting/fascinating field personally. You'd be surprised at how many blacks, women, etc made some major contributions in history/tech behind the scenes.

For example, did you know that like Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson also faced court martial as an Army officer for refusing to give up his seat to a white man, at least a decade or so before Rosa?

Yes and I didn't need a fake class to hear about it...