What do you think is the most useless degree you could ever get?

haha a history degree isn't worthless

I'd have to say women studies ... I know you should go to university with a passion too but come on.... women studies... really?

www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/fssh/humanities-arts-languages/ug/womens-studies.cfm

Haha so which universities rejected you to study history? The massive chip on your shoulder is clearly caused by something
Either you were rejected by a history course or you're massively sexually frustrated so take it out on the internet in the form of a diatribe that few will read and fewer will care about

I'm not even a History student but History teaches analytical skills, how to write to a high standard, how to set out, begin and conclude an argument succinctly and other skills that I would probably remember if it wasn't 2.30! Plus it's fascinating. Sure, History isn't going to mean you're guaranteed a job, but few degrees do nowadays. The skills history students have are valuable, perhaps not in things like engineering (though I may be wrong as I know nooothing!) but in any sort of job where you may have to make applications for money, put forward a presentation for a new project or something similar, what you learn as a history student is definitely useful.

For me, it has to be History without a doubt... Without travelling far and wide to pointlessly study it in university, all you'd really need to do is:

Write essays - I have a pen and paper, and a laptop to type documents
Read books - I'll get those from my local library which is a 5 minute bus journey. If I need extra books, I'll go on Ebay or Amazon
Field trips - Visit a few places related to whatever you're studying

These are all things you can do in your local town without spending a few grand on tuition fees. In an academic sense, why spend years in university accumulating vast amounts of student debt which you'll never pay back because there's no hope of getting a decent job with that degree?
I could get a Ph.D level of knowledge in the Crusades by sitting in my living room/study/bedroom and reading copious amounts of material related to the topic over a few years.
History is a subject for the rich, pompous, middle-class scholars who didn't know what to do with their hefty parental allowance so they blew it all on pointless tuition fees for that pointless degree.
People studying History generally have nothing better to do than to loaf around sipping tea, nibbling crumpets and having senseless arguments about the most pointless and outdated events which have long since been swept under the rug by anyone with an ounce of common sense.

Guy with common sense: Hi, what are you studying?
History student: History, you?
Guy with common sense: Psh... History? Well then, let's hope you're not living in a skip by the time you find out who killed the Princes in the Tower

Edit: (Negged by butt-hurt History students who can't face the truth)

OP has no friends and likes to vent his anger out on tsr.
I negged you and I do Economics and Econometrics.
Your clearly retarded since you think History is more useless than football studies or golf management.

Your argument is completely flawed. Yes, you could teach yourself History, but that is the same for any subject you could study at university. I could go and get textbooks on Biology and go and get my knowledge up to scratch with people whom are actually taking the degree - but I wouldn't want to, why would I want to learn about a subject that I have no interest in? You go to University to study a subject that you enjoy - If everyone was to do 'useful' degrees as you 'claim' then University would be an extremely boring place, not to mention how ridiculous the competition would be, in and out of the academic world.

Geology/Geography

For me, it has to be History without a doubt... Without travelling far and wide to pointlessly study it in university, all you'd really need to do is:

Stop being so patronising. When half of your post comprises correcting someone's grammar, it implies that you don't have any particularly valid arguments rebutting theirs. History isn't a useless degree; it's only by awareness of the mistakes of the past that any hope can be entertained of rectifying our situation in the future. A History degree is conducive to a large number of jobs that perhaps couldn't be obtained without that degree; a degree is only less valid when you can only get jobs that you could've got anyway without that degree.

Can you do a stained glass window? Do you know how to cut the glass, put the pieces together safely and securely? Create patterns and designs using the right colours and inks/paints? Do you know about what time period each stained glass comes from? Thought not. As I said earlier, every degree has a use.

I got negged a gazillion time for highlighting something similiar.

My post- http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=32847848#post32847848

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