You probably need to consider the thesis in context to the source of the studies (college of social sciences, education, etc.) as this has a lot to do with doctoral dissertations/theses, I suspect.
If you looked at doctoral candidates from a college of science or engineering I can assure you the subject would be just as obscure and unrecognizable. Was she getting a graduate degree? I ask because where I went to school the doctoral candidates had their own ceremonies where they got "hooded" by their supervising professor. Dan "No tam, thank you" On Dec 20, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Rich Thomas wrote: > You know, last week my daughter (finally) graduated college, we went to the > ceremonies. They had all the PhD candidates and their thesis titles listed > in the program. > > A lot of them seemed like BS to me, but what do I know... One of them stood > out as a major contribution to societal improvement, it was something like > "Gender(queering) and the impacts on society of mainstreaming > gender(queering)" > > Now I don't even know what "gender(queering)" is, and don't really have much > need to know I suppose, and have no idea when that topic was discovered or > whatever. I mentioned this to my daughter, who is up on such things as she > had a housemate for awhile who was "gender queer neutral" (and I just thought > she was a fairly cute young lady), and she explained that this whole topic > was now a significant area of study. Who knew? I still don't know what > "gender queer neutral" is either, though I know the meaning of each word in > that appellation, but that girl was an example of it I guess. > > I'm wondering how writing a thesis on "gender(queering)" will contribute to > the progress of the economy, but I guess that would the topic for another PhD > study. > > --R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
