Usually, when your rich uncle mansplains how to become a successful lawyer/banker/doctor/midlife-crisis-haver at Thanksgiving dinner every year, he will counsel you, “Don’t major in underwater basket-weaving or English, whatever you do.”
Well, there might be a new joke major in town, joining the Communicationses and Philosophies and Anthropologies before it: social media, BetaBeat reports.
Yes, several colleges are now developing social media programs, USA Today reports. [1] Southern New Hampshire University offers a social media marketing MBA, while Excelsior College offers an MBA in social media management, and other schools like Ohio University are offering a few social media classes.
Never mind the fact that kids these days are practically born tweeting. It’s a viable career field and everything–but doesn’t majoring in social media in 2013 sound a lot like majoring in 8-track engineering in 1982?
Twitter and Facebook could be extinct relics in 10 years or less, for all we know. One professor points out to USA Today [1] that the media landscape changes quickly, and students need to be on the cutting edge–something nobody has ever learned how to do in a college classroom.
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