I have run into this post of "Post-Apocalyptic Survival Studies (PASS) on the Oakland University website.
which's an April's Fool joke
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It inspires me to wonder what degrees will be more useful during an apocalypse and rebuilding society, which includes but not limited to:
Useful from the Beginning
Spoiler
which's an April's Fool joke
It inspires me to wonder what degrees will be more useful during an apocalypse and rebuilding society, which includes but not limited to:
Useful from the Beginning
- Biology+Botany: For animal behaviors (hunting), finding edible plants and herbs.
- Engineering (Civil, Mechanical & Electrical): Building shelters, water and waste management, dealing with electronics and anything that can move
- Emergency & Disaster Management: Apocalypse is an ongoing emergency & disaster
- Sports Science: To maintain physical fitness so you'll have more survival chance
- Public Health: Diseases has always been a major cause of fatality. The important thing is to prevent anyone from getting ill.
- Geography: Map reading will be useful in an age without GPS. It's important to take account of our physical environment.
- Meteorology: Weather knowledge and prediction for sailors, fisherman, hunter/gatherers and farmers is important.
- Food Science: food preservation, community nutrition & medical nutritional therapy
- Agriculture: We may need to re-invent agriculture revolution.
- History, Political Science & Economics: To learn from our past and rebuild the future
- Law: What rules do we want to have for our new society?
- Education: We want to spread our knowledge to others. Early intervention is especially importance for children with special need.
- Journalism and Communication: Mass Media has returned.
- Nursing: Care for old and ill people, public health
- Social Work & Counselling: For helping people deal with loss and changes.
- Language & Literature: Our link to the world and our past.