it's like all those degrees that only prepare you to ... teach other people to get that degree

probably why so many X studies/geographers/language arts/Anglo-Saxon Old English historians go through so much radical posturing about how medieval Scotland was brimming with queer Moorish Muslims, they're scrambling to distinguish themselves: the science departments invent industrial or medical goos, historians can rabidly debunk common myths about the history of goo over time, artists paint or animate with goo and also live off of goo--with those fields there's a tradeoff