An inventory of strange majors
Funeral Management Major
The Funeral Department of Changsha Civil Affairs Vocational and Technical College has two major professional directions, namely modern funeral technology and The management major and the cemetery design major planned to recruit 280 students across the country last year. Among them, the modern funeral technology and management major has three majors, namely, the funeral service major, the funeral equipment major, and the anti-corrosion and plastic surgery major.
"Monday is an introduction to funerals, body collection, plastic surgery, flower arrangement, and Tuesday is bone burning, elegiac couplets, Feng Shui, and infectious diseases. How can I survive with such a full class?" Many netizens shouted horror after seeing the course schedule of the funeral major. , but according to reporters, the usual funeral courses are not supernatural and scary, and students who graduate from this major can generally get a good salary.
Gay Musicology
In order to cater to the rising demand for homosexuality, UCLA has ingeniously integrated musicology with sexuality, feminism, and homosexuality into a separate discipline. It’s gay musicology. According to the Los Angeles Times, the main research topic of this major is "whether melodies written by gay composers can more arouse the sexual excitement of gays."
Grass Science Major
It may sound unbelievable that you can get a degree if you can grow grass. The grassland science undergraduate major of Yunnan Agricultural University is recruiting 32 science students from within the province this year. During the four-year period, students not only learn grass varieties, living conditions, and planting, but also learn the management of grass-related industries, such as grassland science, forage science, and turf science. At present, China Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University and other institutions of higher learning also offer similar majors.
Sericulture
Did you know that "sericulture" is also a major? There is such a major in Southwest University, South China Agricultural University and other universities. This major mainly cultivates people who can study silkworms. Talents engaged in teaching and scientific research in the industry or agricultural sector. You will suddenly realize that you can also get a degree in raising silkworms...
The strange college in the university
Qianjiang Lobster College
Recently, Hubei Jianghan Art The vocational college has been frequently reported by the media for its admission list. It is reported that 86 freshmen were admitted to the "Qianjiang Lobster College" affiliated to the school. Some netizens said with a smile, "To be honest, I can study for a postdoctoral degree in one breath." The school has three general college degree majors: catering management, cooking technology and nutrition (crayfish cooking direction), and marketing (crayfish industry direction). Two years. This is the first and only school in China to offer lobster major.
Although netizens ridiculed that the "Lobster Academy" was established for "foodies", the school said that lobster is the highlight of the curriculum, and there will be some emphasis on it, but it will not be the entire curriculum. Culinary majors need to learn other Hubei specialty cuisines, and marketing and catering management majors also need to learn other theoretical courses.
Wuhan Hot-Dry Noodles Research Institute
On June 10, 2015, Wuhan Business School announced that the school’s School of Culinary and Food Engineering and Wuhan’s time-honored Cai Linji *** jointly established the “Wuhan Hot Dry Noodles” Research Institute. This is the first time that a Wuhan university has established a research institute for Wuhan traditional snacks.
Public information shows that the institute brings together experts, professors from both schools and enterprises, as well as Chinese cooking masters and representative inheritors of the provincial "intangible cultural heritage" hot-dry noodle making techniques. It mainly develops the history of hot-dry noodles. Conduct research on inheritance and cultural development, brand protection, industrial production and product packaging, marketing and product development, and carry out human resources training to promote the development of Chinese snacks.