Hungary to remove gender studies from university.

[Wokko]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/34412/hu ... benshapiro

[Mugwump]

^ there was a great vogue in the 1980s for "Peace
Studies" at university. It was a kind of amalgam of international relations, history, and lots and lots of "cultural theory", all more or less dedicated to promotiing the idea of unilateral western disarmament. The only subject which probably does belong in peace studies was military history, and that was entirely absent from the curriculum. As soon as the Berlin wall fell, so did peace studies.

These manufactured synthetic subjects on the margins of knowledge have a vogue and then they die. I imagine the same will happen, in time, with this scrapbook from psychology, sociology and literature/media. Meanwhile, spending public money on actual education instead seems a good idea.

[David]

[Mugwump]

[stui magpie]

only 2 universities in the country offered the course to a total of 13 people. Waste of resources.

[Pies4shaw]

[stui magpie]

If there was more of a demand than 13 people in the country, , they may have kept it.

At least a course in advanced theoretical physics has some benefits and if it was done well enough, places could be sold to overseas students.

[Pi]

The reality is a growing number of degrees are likely to be obsolete in the future or will change beyond recognition.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/ca ... 33115d4e97

Gender studies will probably go back to what it used be, a one semester filler subject part of some other degree.

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.

Does anyone actually do Latin in high school anymore?

[HAL]

Suppose they do.

[roar]

Does anyone actually do Latin in high school anymore?

Only a couple of the APS schools, I think, and that's a real tragedy.

Agree with P4s, we need to be careful of cutting departments simply because of small numbers, and I do not believe potential income should be a consideration in any aspect of education.

[Mugwump]

[Nick - Pie Man]

only 2 universities in the country offered the course to a total of 13 people. Waste of resources.

That certainly puts it into perspective.

[Flanker_33]

What's the whole point of gender studies anyways? What does it prepare you professionnally to do... apart from teaching gender studies?

That's why I went into legal studies and then joined the police instead of following my initial passion, history. I don't want to teach, and the other jobs related to that field are way too niche.

[stui magpie]

^

welcome aboard

[Pies4shaw]

I suppose it depends upon whether you see tertiary study as a means of getting vocational training, like a glorified TAFE, or enabling people to learn important critical thinking skills.

That's a response to your general point. I have no interest at all in the specific question whether people should or shouldn't do "gender studies".