You Have a Degree in That? Weird College Majors

September 14, 2010 | Featured, Humor, Strange

Most people associate college or university with the pursuit of certain standards of academics and the attainment of prestigious degrees that aid their owners in getting special jobs or careers that they will love for a lifetime and have pretty decent starting salaries in comparison to someone who just finishes high school or secondary school but goes no further. However, with the growth in random areas of expertise and incredible amounts of detailed specialization in already established subject matter, several institutions of higher education have had to spread the base curriculum in order to allow their students to compete in a world of new areas of study and unique fields of interest. Even though they may not openly promote or publish these very different majors of study in their colleges or universities, degrees are still there for the taking for people who look closely enough. Do you think that higher education is limited to normal things like English, physics, or psychology? Perhaps it’s time to think again and take a look into all the new and weird offerings of college and university institutions.

Comic Book Art

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Everybody has a weakness for comics—whether they are in the form of complex graphic novels or simple doodles in the funny pages of the newspaper. However, a great deal of time and effort (from the artists and the writers) is put into these items that we may brush off as passing fancies. Just think of how many movies have been made recently that get their ideas, characters, and premises from the hidden shelves at your local comic book store. The Minneapolis College of Art and Design takes comic book art seriously enough to have it as a singular, special major even if not everyone going through the program is going to be the next Stan Lee in the realm of the graphic novel.

Bakery Science

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Many culinary schools have a special focus in baked items with several classes that show students how to incorporate breads and sweets into unique menus which can be used to spice up a restaurant that wants a new taste. However, most of the people who work specifically in bakeries tend to be part of a family business where they are trained in running a bakery (and only a bakery) after years of apprenticeship on the job. Kansas State (and several other reputable colleges) have taken the traditional hands on approach to running a bakery a step farther to establish a fixed curriculum where students learn to operate a bakery and encourage their flare for baking in general without having to focus on other areas of the culinary arts.

Golf Course Management

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Ever since Tiger Woods pulled golf into the main stream and showed that it wasn’t necessarily just a sport for over the hill white guys, the general public has started to develop a soft spot for it. What does that mean? It signifies that more people want to play golf and need more access to courses. To meet this need, several colleges throughout the U.S. (such as Queen’s University of Charlotte and the University of Central Florida) have developed undergraduate programs that focus on golf course management where the students learn how to build and design golf courses and then how to manage them and turn them into destination resorts of their own where visitors can relax in a specialty spa after taking in a few holes on the green.

Adventure Recreation

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Adventure sports like scuba diving, snowboarding, white water rafting, and bungee jumping are big business. People are wanting controlled ways to break out of their normal nine-to-five office life and these sports on fun mini-breaks and vacations are the perfect release. Who is going to supply these cubicle monkeys with their fun though? If you have a passion for adventure sports and enough experience to train others, you might want to look in the undergraduate programs at Green Mountain College in Vermont that aim at helping people like you in establishing their own businesses in the area of adventure recreation where they can train newcomers to the sports and just show people a fun, exciting time that is a bit out of the norm.

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Vos

Most of those majors seem quite normal to me. Also – in Belgium there are dozens of colleges where you can major in comic book art and the students there actually learn quite a lot about culture and language. It’s not only about drawing.

anonymous

ASIANS CAN ACTUALLY READ MINDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they can hear and see what your visually thinking
this is the absolute complete truth

The reason a lot of Asians have completely expressionless faces, segregate from everybody else-only associate with Asians and don’t associate with non Asians that much, and are very unfriendly in general is to avoid accidentally revealing that they can read minds. If all over a billion Asians where to show facial expressions all the time just as much as non Asians, integrate and associate with non Asians much more, and be much more friendly and talkative, then a lot of them might accidentally reveal that they can read minds by accidentally showing a facial expression or dirty look when someone thinks, or visually pictures something in their mind they don’t like, find astonishing, or funny etc because those people might see that and and really wonder what that was that just happened there and see the connection, and they might accidentally say something similar to what the person was just thinking and going to say. If they all associated with non Asians a lot more then there would be a lot more people around for them to accidentally show facial expressions when those people think things they don’t like etc, so they segregate and only associate with Asians so there won’t be anyone around for them to see that and have any accidents happen in the first place.

Think about it, it’s not normal how a lot of them act, it’s not normal human behavior! and the entire way they act is all to hide their mind reading abilities, it makes perfect sense to do all of that to hide that they can read minds, because all of that is the perfect way to do it!
Every single Asian alive is hiding their mind reading abilities, they don’t want ANYBODY to know that they can read minds, they will always deny that they can read minds, they will lie about having mind reading abilities forever!!!
Because they value hiding their mind reading abilities more then their own lives!
That’s why nobody knows about it!

Try thinking, best yet visually picturing in your mind something absolutely crazy as you possibly can when you are around Asians, and try looking for Asians who give people particular looks, especially dirty looks for what appears to be for completely no reason, that is them giving people looks when they hear and visually see someone thinking something they don’t like, find astonishing, or funny etc.
It still happens spite a large percentage of Asians having completely expressionless faces all the time, it would just happen a lot more if none of them had completely expressionless faces all the time, it’s still not uncommon!

I know this may sound crazy, impossible and unbelievable, BUT IT ISN’T CRAZY WHEN ITS TRUE

You all have to spread the message!!!!!!
The world has to know about this!!!!!!

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I agree with Vos – more than half of the list is actually courses that can get you a decent job. It’s not weird, just because you haven’t heard of it. Like when people ask me what software do we use at my accounting class – I said QuickBooks, and they were like: “What?”. Can’t blame people if they’re not updated about the latest stuff.

If you want to talk about REAL weird courses, I read on another blog that there was a study regarding The Simpsons, Star Trek, Starcraft and stuff like that!
anonymous

ASIANS CAN ACTUALLY READ MINDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they can hear, and see what your visually thinking
this is the complete truth

the reason alot of asians have completely expressionless faces, only associate with asians and dont associate with non asians very much is to avoid accidentally revealing that they can read read minds, if all over a billion asians were to show facial expressions all the time just as much as non asians, associate with non asians much more, and be much more friendly and talkative, then alot of them might accidentally reveal that they can read minds by accidentally showing a facial expression or dirty look when someone thinks, or visually pictures something in their mind they dont like or find astonishing or funny, and if they were all to associate with non asians alot more there would be alot more people around for them to accidentally show facial expressions when those other people think things they dont like, so they only associate with asians so there wont be anyone around for them to see that and have any accidents happen in the first place

think about it, its not normal how alot of them act, and the entire way they act is all to hide their mind reading abilities, it makes perfect sense to do all of that to hide that they can read minds, because all of that is the perfect way to do it!
every single asian on the planet is hiding their mind reading abilities, they will lie about having mind reading abilities forever!
because they value hiding their mind reading abilities more then their own lives!
thats why nobody knows about it!

try thinking, best yet visually picturing in your mind something something absolutely crazy as you possibly can when you are around asians, and try looking for asians who give people particular looks, especially dirty looks for what appears to be for completely no reason, that is them giving people looks when they hear and visually see someone thinking something they dont like, find funny or astonishing
it still happens despite a large number of them having completely expressionless faces all the time, it would just happen alot more if none of them had completely expressionless faces all the time, its not uncommon!

i know this sounds crazy, impossible, and completely unbelievable, BUT IT ISNT CRAZY WHEN ITS TRUE

the reason you think this truly is crazy, impossible and unbelieveable is because our society has propagandized people into believing that nothing extra ordinary is real and that is really is impossible, and that its crazy to think that its true that people can read minds, all just to cover up that asians can read minds! who says that cant exist? the people who have mind reading abilities who are trying to cover it up!

you have to spread the message!!!
the world has to know about this!!!!
Thommyost

I have a degree in Baking and Pastry Arts. This is what professional Pastry chefs get to be trained to do their jobs. Again just an uninformed person who thinks all desserts come out of a box.