What do you consider a "mickey mouse" degree?

I have a friend who wants to read Vocal and Choral Studies at Winchester and another who wants to do Performing Arts at Anglia Ruskin? I wish to take LLB Law with Criminology at Keele and they think it is pathetic and I should have some fun and not do such a serious subject Would you consider their degrees to be worthless?
Layla

All this "mickey mouse" degree talk annoys me I don't know why. Maybe because I'm going to be doing Psychology in sept '10 and some people disregard this degree as "mickey mouse" degree, but becoming an Educational or Clinical Psychologist are not "micky mouse" careers.

Most people I know who disregard other degrees are only studying there current degree to get a job and not to enjoy it. By enjoy I don't mean in the respect of doing as little work as possible to allow more drinking time. I mean in the respect you will suceed in a career path you will enjoy rather than brain washed into studying a degree you don't actually want to do.

Not necessarily.

To fulfill my criteria of whether it is MM or not, please answer the three questions:

*Is it a BSc?
*Is it from a respectable university?
*Are you predicted/aiming for at least a 2:1?

If yes to all three - then I don't consider your degree MM.

Lol, all of those degrees a Mickey Mouse.

(Please, don't bang on about how Law isn't Mickey Mouse - it is for me at the "bad" unis).

Basically, anything that isn't a

*traditional humanities/arts subjects (Classics, English Literature, History/Law etc)
*modern foriegn language that is commonly used (French, Spanish, German etc)
*the big three medical/health courses (Medicine, Veterinary Science, Dentistry)
*an engineering branch (Civil, Mechanical, Aeronautical etc)
*a respectable science degree (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics)
*an earth sciences degree that is BSc/MSci level as opposed to a BA (Geology, Geography, Geophysics etc)
*an Economics related degree - providing it is a BSc.

And I think that's it, though this is open to editing.

HOWEVER - if it's not at a "good" university, it automatically becomes Mickey Mouse.
Likewise, if it is not at least a 2:1 or a 1st level, it automatically becomes Mickey Mouse.

In conclusion, a non-Mickey Mouse degree must fulfill the three conditions:

*Must be one of the subjects above - including the specific details.
*Must be at a "good" university OVERALL - and "good" is open to interpretation, but to an unlimited extent.
*Must be at a 2:1 or a 1st level



NOTE: Major/minor and joint honours is (personally) frowned upon. So, depending on the individual degree, place and classification, whether it is Mickey Mouse or not is defined by me.

Lol, all of those degrees a Mickey Mouse.

(Please, don't bang on about how Law isn't Mickey Mouse - it is for me at the "bad" unis).

Basically, anything that isn't a

*traditional humanities/arts subjects (Classics, English Literature, History/Law etc)
*modern foriegn language that is commonly used (French, Spanish, German etc)
*the big three medical/health courses (Medicine, Veterinary Science, Dentistry)
*an engineering branch (Civil, Mechanical, Aeronautical etc)
*a respectable science degree (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics)
*an earth sciences degree that is BSc/MSci level as opposed to a BA (Geology, Geography, Geophysics etc)
*an Economics related degree - providing it is a BSc.

And I think that's it, though this is open to editing.

HOWEVER - if it's not at a "good" university, it automatically becomes Mickey Mouse.
Likewise, if it is not at least a 2:1 or a 1st level, it automatically becomes Mickey Mouse.

In conclusion, a non-Mickey Mouse degree must fulfill the three conditions:

*Must be one of the subjects above - including the specific details.
*Must be at a "good" university OVERALL - and "good" is open to interpretation, but to an unlimited extent.
*Must be at a 2:1 or a 1st level



NOTE: Major/minor and joint honours is (personally) frowned upon. So, depending on the individual degree, place and classification, whether it is Mickey Mouse or not is defined by me.

All this "mickey mouse" degree talk annoys me I don't know why. Maybe because I'm going to be doing Psychology in sept '10 and some people disregard this degree as "mickey mouse" degree, but becoming an Educational or Clinical Psychologist are not "micky mouse" careers.

Most people I know who disregard other degrees are only studying there current degree to get a job and not to enjoy it. By enjoy I don't mean in the respect of doing as little work as possible to allow more drinking time. I mean in the respect you will suceed in a career path you will enjoy rather than brain washed into studying a degree you don't actually want to do.

I have a friend who wants to read Vocal and Choral Studies at Winchester and another who wants to do Performing Arts at Anglia Ruskin? I wish to take LLB Law with Criminology at Keele and they think it is pathetic and I should have some fun and not do such a serious subject Would you consider their degrees to be worthless?
Layla

The only people who truly believe Psychology is a Micky Mouse subject are the people who believe that Derren Brown is a psychologist, that there are actually core modules in dream interpretation and mind-reading, and that "psychology" is synonymous with "psychic".

Pity the fools.

What, that a Micky Mouse degree will give you cancer?