I have graduated!

[trdbglr]

I had to do a tower defense to get my BA in tower fornification

[GamerMON]

Whoo graduation. All I have to do is get a C on my final exam and I will be getting my Associates of the liberal arts(two year degree). It only took me 3 and 1/2 years.

[Ack]

Congrats! I'm about three days away from being done with my Master's.

In fact, in the last twenty four hours, I wrote a seven page paper on the management failings of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library over the last decade. I have no words to describe how shocked I was by what all was going on in that county.

[Snickerd00dle]

Go watch the Graduate!

but seriously, congrats!

[Anubis]

Whoo, I should be graduating in spring, but I dicked off last semester.

I'll be here to summer at least, possible next fall. I should really figure that out.

[RCBH928]

What is Social communication?
What jobs can you do?

and what is defending have to do with college?

congrats

[jfrost]

Congrats! I'm about three days away from being done with my Master's.

In fact, in the last twenty four hours, I wrote a seven page paper on the management failings of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library over the last decade. I have no words to describe how shocked I was by what all was going on in that county.

That's great. On what area are you getting your Master's?

[jfrost]

Congrats man!

Now go get your masters!

I'm thinking about it. Well, everyone is telling me to do that. Maybe if I can do my Master's on another country... it would be way more fun.

[jfrost]

What is Social communication?
What jobs can you do?

and what is defending have to do with college?

congrats

Social Communication is... social communication. You learn about communicating. In my case, I studied Journalism -- the name of the course is "Social Communication with habilitation in Journalism", or something to that effect (I don't know the proper translation in English). Likewise, in my university, there are also social communication courses with habilitation in Radio & TV and Publicity. However, they're still the same course, just with different focuses.

Having graduated, I can be a journalist, work as spokesman, in corporate communications, whatever. Anything related to the area. To be sure, graduating is not necessary to work as a journalist, but it's a big plus.

About defending, you are required to "defend" your final work on the university (at least here, but I suppose it's similar around the world). You do, say, a monograph, or an essay, or (in journalism) a magazine, a website, whatever.

After you're done, you have to present your work before three professors (the bureaucracy of choosing which professors is kind of intricate, but I won't delve into that here). After that, they comment on your work and ask questions. Then you have to defend your work. If you do so successfully, you're awarded your Bachelor's degree.

[Limewater]

Social Communication is... social communication. You learn about communicating. In my case, I studied Journalism -- the name of the course is "Social Communication with habilitation in Journalism", or something to that effect (I don't know the proper translation in English).

Heh. I took a Communication course, but it was all a bunch of Fourier Transforms and error correction codes and modulation schemes.