Course in Lady Gaga offered at US university

Course in Lady Gaga offered at US university

www.telegraph.co.uk

Mathieu Deflem, a sociology professor at the University of South Carolina, is adding a course title "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame".

The synopsis for the course reads: "The central objective is to unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga".

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Gun please?... Thank you.

BANG!

Brains all over the wall.

Seriously this is really happening? This university has just lost a considerable amount of credibility IMO.

Don't get me wrong I think the idea of studying the sociology, and psychological aspects of fame and public life to be an interesting topic. But one which belongs as a subsection of a greater subject of study. Taking a Gaga-centric view of this is just this professors lame attempt to cash in on a celebrity encounter.

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What are you ranting about here? This is the Untied States of dimwits. What is the difference of sitting your children in from of the television watching endless amount of pointless garbage; then a course about Lady Gaga?

If I had a degree in lady gaga, i might be able to get a job at a strip club. I want to get on this course employment awaits me. This could change everything for me. thanks for the heads up...

reply to post by Big Raging Loner


wow that's pretty pathetic. in all fairness i'm watching a documentary about pete seeger right now for a class. haha. but an entire course about a chick with one vacuous album? its not that music doesn't play a role in society its just....damn. yea, lame.

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


Well for one thing you'd have to pay through the nose for the Gaga course. People use the TV to raise their children because it is easy and they are lazy. There is nothing easy or lazy about sending children to university. Or at least it didn't used to be. For those choosing an academic path through life university is or was a prestigious goal. The courses appear to be becoming more and more of a joke, yet the fees never stop rising.

reply to post by Big Raging Loner


I understand where you're coming from on this subject. I just want you to see where I'm coming from on this subject. Yes! It is ridiculous to have a course on Lady Gaga. 10 more crazy courses Here are 10 more crazy courses. American education is one of the worst in the world. Once you see how bad it is you'll see where I'm coming at here.

ah, whatever happened to the good ole days - you remember - when we had courses like:

Communication in Gender
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Film
Language of Violence
yadda yadda.

Even taught by the femi-nazi Professors at the Uni. I went to, they were still worthy courses in the Lib. Arts. Dept.

But this? Just wow...

Sociology of fame would be interesting to get into, but lady gaga? really? They couldn't think of someone else? 6.8 Billion people on this planet and they chose the one who dresses up like a Christmas tree. ah the insanity!

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


Post Secondary Education in the United States is the envy of the world. The United State's 'education' is only a joke at the highschool level and below. Besides this thread is doing nothing BUT calling this particular class out as a joke. So if you agree that it's a joke then you agree with this thread.

No credit cards?

..check..

No college loans?

..check..

No use for a college diploma?

..check..

Okay son, you're golden now go conquer the world!


Lady Gaga =

reply to post by snusfanatic


Well I agree that class is a joke. Why else would I be commenting for. It's the future of this country which scares me. I always say the death of America would be it's citizens.

Well that's Sociology for you. A totally useless subject.

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


well we both agree that we're screwed. does that warrant a for agreement or a for screwed? oh, i know how about one of these for fear of the future. haha.

A module in a sociology class regarding how people are brought to fame, even if it highlighted "Lady" Gaga, as she is currently popular among young people ( ) would be fine.

A whole course using that name is nothing more than marketing. That's disgusting. Even if the entire course was about how the biggest no-talent idiots become famous and makes all the little gagas cry (which would be amazing!), it's still purely a marketing gimmick.

reply to post by Romantic_Rebel


I have to say oh dear in regards to that link. They are some terrible courses. But American education is only lagging at school level. At university they more than catch up to the rest of the world.

What I wonder is who in their right mind chooses to get further in debt to study such lunacy? Even if the course had some valid points contained within, the instant Gaga is mentioned it will turn to poo. Rightly so.

reply to post by Big Raging Loner

What I wonder is who in their right mind chooses to get further in debt to study such lunacy?

Well, here is where the Univ. credit system gets goofy - with the requirements that undergraduates attain a minimum amount of credits in specific areas - That is how these courses fit in. They are not relevant (most often) to a major or to anything that is actually useful, besides some fun studies, but they do satisfy core course spreads. That is the structure the Univ. has set up and that is where these bizarre courses get their numbers. That 2 years of general credits requirement is the most useless part of Univ. I've ever had the displeasure of wasting my money on. Thank god for Grad. school or all of it would have been mundane and mostly useless in the real world.

reply to post by LadySkadi


Ah I get you, so you can pick and choose modules to make up credits? Or something along those lines. In the UK it's a little more rigid. I suppose if someone was an avid fan of Gaga they might choose to do a 'fun' module to make up a few credits along with their core studies. Kind of like having a break!

reply to post by Big Raging Loner


Yep. There are categories like: cultural studies (x number of minimum credits to take) and science (x number of minimum credits to take) and so on. Within those general categories, you can choose to take any course that fits. This is all within the first 2 years of Univ (considered general credits/electives) and then the last two years are specific to one's chosen major. It's a pretty loony system in my opinion, but based on the idea that a broad knowledge base of many general categories helps expand the mind... I guess. Lol

sign me up! I love learning how to be a TOOL and a ... a... someone who gets paid for felacio... uh.. it'll come to me... but yeah Im down.