I don € t think so, but I € m sure others would disagree with me. I have to agree that this seems like it € enough for a course at a community college, but not enough for an entire Masters program to orbit around. A Higher Education in Social Media Forget spending years in grad school toiling away on an advanced marketing degree.

All you social media junkies out there, grab your backpacks and passports. Should we give credence to these experts. Most social media is self-taught, and fairly simple to grasp and master. While the university has expressed that there € lots of support and interest already, students are voicing criticism that the course is too simple and could be self-taught. Birmingham City University in the UK is going to begin offering a MA course in Social Media. Jon Hickman, the course convener, had this to say about the year-long program. Programs like this lend credence to the € social media experts € out there that charge $5000 just to set up a Facebook profile for the uninitiated. It € a great thing to see social media gain such widespread acceptance as to add it to college-level curricula.

But does it really require its own masters degree.