[Newsbot]

Title: Canadian woman first to graduate with Beatles degree
Category: Showbiz
Posted By: Guy_Fawkes
Date: 2011-01-27 07:30:11
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

Anyone else think this is a pretty useless course?

[Regina]

Apparently she was a Canadian "Rocker" back in 82.

[GreenTiger]

Yes Guy this is a very useless degree. I think even they would laugh.

[Brenda]

People spend tons of money on stupid shit. Who cares?

[Guy_Fawkes]

You would think for the amount of space this course took you could have had more useful courses being taught. It's just so annoying when you think about all the time and money spend on such a useless pursuit.

[Choban]

I believe she needed some sort of Masters to continue teaching herself and opted for this one, so probably not useless to her.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

The program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," is considered by the university to be the first of its kind.

It involves much more than "just being a Beatles fan and listening to their music all day," Zahalan-Kennedy said.

"It's really about history and genres of music and semiotics, which is the language of music and ... how communities are forged with different identities happening because of the way music is delivered," she said.

Sounds like its Beatles-themed musicology program, rather than a program about the Beatles. Probably just as useful as any other graduate course in musicology.

[ShepherdsDog]

...do you want fries with that?

[BeaverFever]

Well, unless you intend to teach music...I'm sure the recording industry is interested in people like that too. But otherwise, seems there'd be limited demand for that type of expertise.

[Brenda]

It would look AWESOME on your resume...
University degree in "The Beatles".
"so ma'am, what have you done the past few years? I see you attended University to get WHAT degree?? If you spent your time on useless crap like that, what are you going to do in MY time? NEXT!!"