mick silver
20th March 2016, 02:16 PM
Black College Now Offers Degree in Hip-Hop StudiesMarch 12, 2016| by Brian Anderson (http://downtrend.com/author/71superb)
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College graduates with normal degrees have a hard enough time finding employment so you know anyone with a goofy degree is pretty much screwed. A black college in Maryland wants to ensure its graduates have a lifetime of government dependency by offering a degree in hip-hop studies. It should actually be criminal to take money from someone and give him or her an education this ridiculous.
Historical black college Bowie State is now offering a minor in Hip-Hop and Visual Culture, which promises to be a huge waste of time and money.
From the Bowie State website: (http://www.bowiestate.edu/academics-research/colleges/college-arts-sciences/departments/dfpa/fine-and-performing-arts-progr/visual-communication-and-digit/hiphop/)
The minor focuses on research, critical discourse and creative projects on hip-hop and its elements as expressed through, but not limited to: DJ-ing, MC‐ing, Graffiti, B-Boy-ing (Dance) and most importantly, Knowledge. The minor will also allow opportunities for research on visual culture, technology, contemporary art, pop culture, design and media.
If I’m understanding this correctly, students can earn a degree by making up words so their poetry rhymes, destroying vinyl records, defacing public and private property, and break dancing. That sounds like a pretty challenging education that should prepare people to succeed. Oh wait, no it doesn’t.
The good news is that the college has set the bar very low and only expects students to maintain a C-average to earn this prestigious minor. I say if you can only manage a C in MC class, you are not destined to make anything of yourself.
If someone walked into a McDonalds looking for a job and presented an African American studies degree with a minor in Hip-Hop, the boss is going to look at him or her and say, “I’m sorry, you are just not qualified to cook French fries.”
When young blacks are struggling to achieve any level of success in this country, letting them earn a minor in hip-hop seems counter-productive. A degree in rap music and culture is not a stepping-stone to greater things. It’s not racism that is keeping black people down; it’s stupid shit like this. Deciding to pursue a silly area of study because it’s a “black thing” instead of developing marketable skills all but guarantees failure.
But you know what? Dummies that waste their time with a minor in hip-hop studies will absolutely blame systemic racism and white supremacy when they can’t find employment. As you know personal choices are never responsible for bad things that happen to black people.
If someone wants to take out a student loan and go into debt to learn about rap music, they have no right to be upset when he or she can’t find a decent job to climb out of poverty. Bowie State isn’t just ripping off its students; they are also sticking it to American taxpayers because we will be paying to support these hip-hop scholars for the rest of their lives.
http://downtrend.com/71superb/black-college-now-offers-degree-in-hip-hop-studies
http://3m12dd41gw8bqlgg62dfsvyl.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hhd2.jpg
College graduates with normal degrees have a hard enough time finding employment so you know anyone with a goofy degree is pretty much screwed. A black college in Maryland wants to ensure its graduates have a lifetime of government dependency by offering a degree in hip-hop studies. It should actually be criminal to take money from someone and give him or her an education this ridiculous.
Historical black college Bowie State is now offering a minor in Hip-Hop and Visual Culture, which promises to be a huge waste of time and money.
From the Bowie State website: (http://www.bowiestate.edu/academics-research/colleges/college-arts-sciences/departments/dfpa/fine-and-performing-arts-progr/visual-communication-and-digit/hiphop/)
The minor focuses on research, critical discourse and creative projects on hip-hop and its elements as expressed through, but not limited to: DJ-ing, MC‐ing, Graffiti, B-Boy-ing (Dance) and most importantly, Knowledge. The minor will also allow opportunities for research on visual culture, technology, contemporary art, pop culture, design and media.
If I’m understanding this correctly, students can earn a degree by making up words so their poetry rhymes, destroying vinyl records, defacing public and private property, and break dancing. That sounds like a pretty challenging education that should prepare people to succeed. Oh wait, no it doesn’t.
The good news is that the college has set the bar very low and only expects students to maintain a C-average to earn this prestigious minor. I say if you can only manage a C in MC class, you are not destined to make anything of yourself.
If someone walked into a McDonalds looking for a job and presented an African American studies degree with a minor in Hip-Hop, the boss is going to look at him or her and say, “I’m sorry, you are just not qualified to cook French fries.”
When young blacks are struggling to achieve any level of success in this country, letting them earn a minor in hip-hop seems counter-productive. A degree in rap music and culture is not a stepping-stone to greater things. It’s not racism that is keeping black people down; it’s stupid shit like this. Deciding to pursue a silly area of study because it’s a “black thing” instead of developing marketable skills all but guarantees failure.
But you know what? Dummies that waste their time with a minor in hip-hop studies will absolutely blame systemic racism and white supremacy when they can’t find employment. As you know personal choices are never responsible for bad things that happen to black people.
If someone wants to take out a student loan and go into debt to learn about rap music, they have no right to be upset when he or she can’t find a decent job to climb out of poverty. Bowie State isn’t just ripping off its students; they are also sticking it to American taxpayers because we will be paying to support these hip-hop scholars for the rest of their lives.
http://downtrend.com/71superb/black-college-now-offers-degree-in-hip-hop-studies