To ask if you could study any university degree, what would it be?

[Theda13]

Cost aside, of course. I’d choose to study History and Sociology.

This was my original choice, but my family said it would be useless in terms of job prospects.

If you could choose to study any course, what would it be?

I am genuinely surprised you need a degree for it.

A lot of people don't but it helps that some of the large freight companies and some of the shipping lines have very good graduate schemes.

Yes, I would love to do shipping logistics as well. I still think that, despite how advanced we are, the only way to move big stuff around the world is still by ship.

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/business-partners/partnerships/academic-partnerships/bsc-hons-maritime-business-and-logistics

You can even do a masters.

www.solent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/international-shipping-and-logistics-msc

@Focca well I honestly am surprised.
I had no idea there was so much involved with logistics that would require so much learning (I don't mean this in a rude way... I honestly thought it would be an apprenticeship type job or starting low and moving up).

Right now I'd happily sign up for a Classics degree.

Another curiosity (as I never went to university so it's all a mystery to me)....
what do you actually learn about in "Classics"?
Is it art? literature? music?. language?

Psychology 100% but I did English and loved it and still have a career stemming from it so no regrets.

History.

I have a degree in History and Politics and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nowadays I'd like to do a degree in something like furniture restoration or stained glass.

That's something I would have maybe liked to have done (furniture restoration) but again I am surprised you'd have to go to university for it.
When I was at school there were still the Polytechnics. No one ever explained to me what exactly they were. Were they where you went for learning crafts/trades?

Kind of all of the above, except perhaps music because we have so very little ancient music, but one of the really brilliant things about it is that you can follow an ancient path in art, literature, history, archaeology and of course language, Latin, and my passion, Greek. You learn about humanity 2500 years ago and how some things change and some things appear not to, quite so much - Donald Trump's insistence on grabbing Venezuela and Greenland would have seemed quite familiar to Thucydides, for example!

@VeryQuaintIrene sounds very interesting.
I do like to learn things and in some way study them (I sometimes become obsessed with something for a while and try to find out as much as I can) but I was no good at essays or exams so university would have been terrible for me 😂

@Needmorelego

The great thing is now that you really can do that without taking a more formal approach. There's tons of excellent material on classical literature in translation on the internet that you can enjoy without academic pressure. Try Anya Leonard's newsletter Classical Wisdom.

The university I went to had that option... you could do joint honours or a minor. However it was mainly in arts degrees.
That said in my politics modules in first year there were some who did it out of interest who were doing computer science / geography etc
I went to Queens in Belfast

It's not.
I'm a nurse and I work bank shifts to fund my studies
Hoping to reduce my hours to focus more on my course
Just building up a wee nest egg

This is currently me
The referencing is so different from my day (late 90)
But the librarians are much much more helpful and so is student support nowadays

Midwifery

Thanks 🙂
I frequently find myself researching and reading about random stuff which then sometimes leads me onto another path of different random stuff.
Who knows where I will end up this year...

Linguistics or Philosophy. I did a languages degree and teach languages. I did one module on linguistics and find it fascinating.

I’d do a Masters or Diploma in Translation - I loved that aspect of my German course. If I had a different career I’d love to translate German academic texts into English. I translated a few articles whilst doing my PhD, and really enjoyed the challenge, but it’s such a hard and precarious area to get established in - doubtlessly nowadays not helped by competition from AI.

I did a French degree but would love to do a BSc in dietetics.