But students can still get graduate degree in ‘Intersectional Indigeneity’
Just as the reality TV star returns to the White House, the University of Connecticut is shutting down its master’s degree in “Politics and Pop Culture.”
The public Mansfield university announced the graduate degree would be closed due to low enrollment. The school is cutting or consolidating other programs due to low interest, according to a Dec. 10 report.
“The only student currently enrolled is projected to complete the program in May 2025,” the official notice states.
“No teach out plan is therefore needed, as there will be no students completing the program. Applications to the program had already been suspended,” the university announced. “The closure will be effective in the fall 2025 term.”
The school originally projected 10 students per year when it created the program in Oct. 2019.
The degree aimed to teach students “the skills, concepts, and the vocabulary to move fluidly between in-depth study of political science, with all the rigor and specialist knowledge that entails, and popular culture, with all the analytic, creative and communicative possibilities that come with a mass medium.”
Other “planned closures” include a graduate certificate in “global risk management” and one in “obesity prevention and weight management.”
Thirteen other programs will be suspended, according to the university. The university will monitor 65 programs as well, according to student newspaper The Daily Campus.
However, UConn students interested in niche political science degrees still have options, as the school offers both a certificate and master’s degree in “Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.”
“IIREP scholars at UConn study the political identities forged through historical and ongoing struggle by nations of people for whom the Americas were home prior to the 15th century,” the school tells prospective students. “These struggles, while involving responses to being racialized, focus foremost on interrupted and forcibly severed relations to land.”
Yale University, meanwhile, offers a course on political thought and Beyoncé.
“This course centers…Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as the portal through which to rigorously examine key interdisciplinary works of Black radical tradition intellectual thought and grassroots activist politics and practice across the centuries,” The College Fix previously reported.
MORE: Taxpayers should not fund wasteful college funding, Senator Tom Cotton says
IMAGE: IMBD and Twentieth Century Fox
Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter
Please join the conversation about our stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, MeWe, Rumble, Gab, Minds and Gettr.