"You can't be a writer unless you have a degree in Linguistics"
That's how it sounds to me now when I hear "You can't be a software engineer without a CS degree"
I heard on a podcast a while back state that Comp Sci and Software Engineering are two different things
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Another aspect to this going into linguistics expecting to learn how to write. Or forcing universities to drop parts of linguistics in order to teach more ‘real world’ writing skills.
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Urgh, yes!
As a teacher the outside pressure to drop core, important fundamentals in favour of some 'industry' skills was always on us. I've never made that connection before, but you're right.
If you want CS imagine the dreariness of having to tack web specific stuff on it :(
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This was exactly me as a student. One of the reasons I dropped out of my course - I was chomping at the bit to learn the theory behind computation and programming, but all I got was a bit of substandard theory and a lot of outdated software engineering.
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Easier to be a programmer by day and teach myself the theory on the side. 😅
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Not saying pulling down barriers between academia and industry is bad – there’s a difference between that and becoming job training though. 😢
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Yeah, this quickly becomes a very different conversation!
The motivations of academia and industry are (or should be) different.
Under late stage capitalism, Academia is forced to be more profit driven, and industry has to fill the gap left by funding cuts-with strings attached
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