Next year, Birmingham City University in the UK will be offering a one-year master’s degree course in social media. Students will learn the ins and outs of social networking applications as public relations, communications and marketing tools. Designed to accessible to anyone, the course takes a scholarly look at services like Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and so on.
Although learning the nuances of social media in the business world may have a place as part of a larger curriculum, it seems like too little to base an entire Master’s program on. Early responses to the class have people scratching their heads at the relevance of a line of study that could essentially be completed for free by just getting hands-on experience with the social media tools out there.
[via Mashable & Nick Burcher]
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This is one of the dumbest ideas ever, especially in the current climate with students facing massive amounts of debt. Crappy universities like Birmingham City University and the University of the West of England are offering “mickey-mouse” degrees in subjects that students will struggle to find jobs in for obscene amounts of money instead of pushing students into real academic degrees in order for them to learn something of use.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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April 15th, 2009 at 9:53 pm