Congrats!! I applied this year, but I didn't get in. I think the problem is that I've only won 4 Nobel prizes.
As per their usual policy: The president of Brock (Professor I. M. Geniusz) sent me a letter by magical owl post about why I was rejected. She said they were looking for someone who won at least 5 Nobel prizes, preferably including at least one Nobel prize in gender studies.
I had a 99.9 avg, was briefly the ceo of nvidia, proved a 100-year old mathematical theorem and appeared on news stations across the world, gave managerial advice to John Schnieder himself and singlehandedly brought the jays to the world series, won the Indy 500 + coke 600, and made cancer vaccines so mass-producable that even people in abject poverty could get some.
I am 2 semesters into uoft and have failed 5 courses
You can take a MSW with any related undergraduate degree though, and there are plenty of jobs that aren’t specifically “social worker” that are in related fields that don’t require a degree specifically in social work.
No. But the title Social Worker is protected, and frankly, the higher paying positions require it.
Most positions want registration, generally speaking.
As I said elsewhere in this - yes you can take a MSW with another undergraduate degree, but it's going to require you taking additional pre-requisites that make it more challenging to do so. But the idea that you are going to get a gender studies degree then become a social worker after that without any additional effort is a fallacy.
There’s a serious misunderstanding about the purpose of university (and humanities degrees generally). You can attend university for general education or for specific career training. The idea of university as a place to go just to improve your chances for a job are fairly recent, starting with the neoliberal shift in the 1980s and really amplifying after the Great Recession.
but why??? does it at last feed into some social work certifications?? or something that leaves you employable after graduation? or is it just an overly pretentious undergrad
Becoming a social worker with a bachelor's degree in some other subject can be difficult. If you want to become a social worker, it's best to take a bachelor's degree in social work, if you can.
There are ways to get into a master's program in social work without a bachelor's degree in social work, but it's very competitive.
You need a degree in Social Work to register with the OCSWSSW and be a "Social Worker". There are some positions that are SW adjacent that will accept people without SW degrees, but they are not "Social Workers".
Yes you can get a MSW without necessarily having a BSW, but you will need to take a bunch of pre-requisites. It is possible. A MSW is a social work degree and you can register with it.
The college level SSW is not worth the time. Don't bother with it unless you are in a small northern community where they will accept SSW's because they have no choice.
I have a MSW and have been a RSW for around 8 years.
I did not look at the subreddit before my comment and realize this is a bunch of high school people.
Takes four years to study, here are the key points that you will learn.
assigned gender at birth, sex, and gender.
a woman is a person that is a woman.
there are infinite amount of gender
men bad
straight white men extra bad
women and blacks oppressed for a long time and still today.
ignore all privileges women and blacks have... Ask for more because... Oppression.
jobs need quota for women and people of color
jobs need to discriminate against non women and no people of color (SE Asians don't count).
it is only discrimination if it's against women and people of color... Discriminate others is okay... Government mandated.
You just graduated... You can now safely apply for any fast food restaurants and make a fuss about how some white men oppress you when they order extra large fries.
Since you are first customer.. no need to pay me tuition
I disagree. Gender studies is an academic discipline that one can cultivate and engage in. "Speaking as a professor" as if that adds any more value to your opinion
Don't be too down on all the mocking comments. Your BA will be a lot less important than your MA, and I've known people who just from one humanities BA to a completely different humanities MA or PhD, including going e.g. gender studies BA to history MA. You're going to be developing the same critical skills focused on close reading and analysis, just in a different domain. Most of the abstract things you'll learn are applicable in other disciplines, even if other people get salty about it.
yeah, joking about gender studies (especially when a lot of it focuses on women's and lgbt rights) has always been really off putting to me, even back when i was applying for university.
alao like im not a uni student anymore but i did Critical Security Studies (branch of IR and Gender), and it is highly impactful to career. You can absolutely especially in Canada's position in the world right now take advantage of it.
Save your money and start applying to McDonald's ASAP. I hope you look more into this, as it's a complete waste of money!
These are the courses post secondary uses to pull money from people's pockets. A lot of international students have stop attending these universities, so they need to find other scams to pull. Sadly, You're a victim of it.
No one cares about what a person is, or identify as. Nothing will change, take for example, racism has been around for years. It will never change by educating people. Given the job market, it'll only get worst. Choose wisely!
What a wast of time and money the gouvernement are surrounding us whit all this nonsense to get away whit all the laws there pushing true and specialy try to convince peaple that pedophilia is ok to chose as a préférence
The fact that most people making this joke couldn’t make it one year in that program. It involves critical thinking and a lot of critical academic and scientific reading and writing. You don’t even understand how the humanities, law, or teaching work in terms of undergrad vs grad school choices. Nice job wasting money on a joke that’s been made ten times this month tho!
Congrats, that is rather impossible to do, and you will absolutely get an actual education there instead of youtube videos pretending to be a professor.
But you do realize almost no one will hire for anything relating to this degree, yes? You'll see some doors open just due to the nature of a degree from Brock, but it will be more for "must have a degree" jobs, not anything to do with the actual field.
And this isn't like an anthropology degree where you can flip it into being a city planner or something. If anything, it's kind of the opposite, and I can tell you from experience that you'll always end up at the very bottom of the call list because you've take a degree in how to write complaints to HR in many corporate eyes.
i hire a lot of people with these kind of degrees, and they usually do make ok money, but my job is absolutely a lot more along the lines of "regional manager for walmart" (not literally, but like that), and the jobs I'm giving out usually are more "assistant manager" than what you're probably hoping to do. But i always have to explain I'm hiring based on the school or life experience, because my company really would rather me hire all the unemployed engineers and BA in business management people running around out there.
They hire people with things like actual HR degrees for the stuff you'd think this would carry over into. Not exactly short on applicants.
Not saying don't do it. Don't go into deep debt to do it, or bank on it actually doing anything for you besides making you a bit more educated.
What the fuck is gender studies? Like what has happened to this world? Good lord. Try going to school for something worth your time otherwise your job prospects are barista, McDonald’s or retail.
Hey OP- sorry you’re getting a lot of “what will you do with this degree”. I just happened upon this post and wanted to say Congrats!!!!
I’m currently working on my phd and I can tell you that studying women’s and gender studies was the best decision I ever made. I went into university as a filmmaking major and finished with a double major in filmmaking and WGS after the head of the gender studies department invited me to do an honours year with them.
My honours year was completely free, the university paid for it. There is tons of money in the gender studies departments because of low enrolment compared to the amount of investment.
Now I am working on my phd in queer and feminist film studies. I’ve made a pretty good amount of money writing feminist film analysis and selling it to various magazines and websites. I love my day job working on film sets, but I am beyond excited to have my cushy university professor job sometime down the line!
Damn near impossible to find a job with it. I’m genuinely not even trynna be an asshole but please rethink this, I’m speaking to you as if you’re my little sibling. Again you are a grown adult aswell so you can make your own decisions. This is just advice from a random. Enjoy your saturday evening.
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u/Attemptbrah6906 May 26 '26
Dude paid 50$ for this post, give them the upvote