{"id":6535,"date":"2024-02-19T20:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2024-02-18T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:07:17","slug":"acronym-majors-on-the-rise-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/19\/acronym-majors-on-the-rise-new-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronym Majors on the Rise, New Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UChicago Office of Communications has recently released a memo warning of unprecedented levels of intended \u201cacronym majors\u201d in the class of 2028. \u201cMore and more students are declaring majors in LLSO, HIPS, NELC, MENG, MADD, BORP, FUMP, VONK, JOKE, and TAPS than ever before,\u201d said Dean of Admitted Student Affairs, Jim Nondorf, \u201cWe at the University of Chicago are proud to provide such robust education in important acronyms for our modern world. We feel confident that our majors with all kinds of acronyms will prepare students for the rigorous job market of the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some students have expressed concerns about the trend towards acronymization. Second-year Kate Winslet said, \u201cI thought I was declaring a major in PHYS, and accidentally declared one in PHSC\u2014now I have a bunch of requirements where I have to keep a moon journal and learn Physics for Future Presidents! All these acronyms are too confusing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third-year Elena Cooperington agreed: \u201cI told employers at job interviews that I was majoring in REES and SALC with minors in CMST, CRES and CEGU and they had the gall to question my credentials for a job in making environmental movies about Russian-South Asian diasporic communities\u2014-as if it wasn\u2019t obvious from my majors! In real life, a UChicago degree clearly means nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To other students, the increasing number of acronym majors offered at UChicago provides an opportunity for a previously unimaginable level of irrelevance. \u201cI thought that Fundamentals, Issues and Texts was the ultimate pure academic major, &#8221; said second-year S\u00f8ren Wichtenstein Kierkegaard. But now that I&#8217;ve learned about the rich world of acronym majors, I\u2019m debating switching majors to LLSO, or maybe even IRHUM! I guarantee you no employer will have heard of that\u2014and what could be more intellectually pretentious!\u201d Math majors, too, have been excited to learn about the more practical (and less recognizable) major of CAM, which offers three capital letters on top of its supposed greater employability than pure math.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever the perspective on acronym majors, this is a new normal that future generations at UChicago will have to get used to. What\u2019s next\u2013ELL (English Language and Literature) or HR (Human Rights) or even MAAAD (Masters in Acronyms, Alliteration, Assonance and Discourse)? Only time will tell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-year Elena Cooperington agreed: \u201cI told employers at job interviews that I was majoring in REES and SALC with minors in CMST, CRES and CEGU and they had the gall to question my credentials for a job in making environmental movies about Russian-South Asian diasporic communities\u2014-as if it wasn\u2019t obvious from my majors! In real life, a UChicago degree clearly means nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2080,"featured_media":6538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}