robinbloke | Your Degree, a summary.

This is probably what they should have put on the course module explanations.

Mathematics: Learn new and complicated ways to turn ever more complicated formulae into even more complicated solutions. None of this was any real world practical value, but boy is that a big impressive formula.
Philosophy: Before this course you will likely be secure in your understanding of the world, life and the universe. After it your brain will be stuffed and leaking from six dozen new ways to relate to existence using references to mindsets and people that noone else has heard of, you will likely go stark raving mad.
Psychology: Learn new and interesting ways to attempt to classify and understand why people think like they do. In the end you will achieve a Zen-like state whereby you realise that the mystical 'Nod and grin' method basically covers every human interaction method.
Politics: Any political leanings you have at the start of this course will be ruthlessly suppressed by the extreme views of your teacher, more confusingly in your second year we will change your tutor who has diametrically opposed views to your previous tutor. At the end of this course you will realise humanity has a snowballs chance in hell of ever resolving anything.
Software Engineering: This course has two vital components. One, it has the word 'Engineering' in it, so it makes you think that tinkering with a box of flashing lights makes you really important. Two, it completely crushes your social life outside a small cadre of likeminded weirdoes who use Acronyms and words that noone else will ever understand. At the end of this course you will be a geek. Live with it.
History: This course sets you up in life with a full flavoured interesting set of conversation topics, you will be sought out at dinner parties for your company, people will ask you endlessly for information about this or that time period. However this has no practical real world application whatsoever and you will spend the rest of your life burger flipping.
Geography: Learn about how we actually sit on a tiny proportion of the world. Learn about the titanic forces that rip and tear the world to pieces regularly. Learn about the chaotic nature of the worlds weather system and that we have a bats chance in hell to ever understand what really is going on out there. Realise the world is doomed and the only job prospect you now have is weathergirl.
Chemistry: At the start of your chemistry A levels you realised everything you were told in GCSE was a vast simplification and basically useless. At the start of your Degree you will realise everything in your A level was basically useless. By the end of your degree you will realise your ultimate goal is to form a whole new level of chemical understanding that renders everything that anyone ever learns at degree level as useless.
Physics: You have the choice of playing with printed circuits or trying to unify the basic fundamental forces of the universe into a single theory. That’s it. Whichever modules you choose you will wish you had chosen the others. Your arms will be covered in solder burns for the rest of your life.
Accountancy: This carefully structured course will teach you the ins and outs of methods and means to manage accounts efficiently and effectively for real world applications. At the end of your course you will discover that no real world accountancy firm actually wanted you to take this course as they now have to make you forget everything you learnt in your degree and teach you how they manage their accounts. This has no resemblance to anything you've learnt.
Biology: Play with a variety of hapless lifeforms brought in for you to study and dissect. Have organ fights with your colleagues and find new and interesting smells from the waste products of the animals you've pulled apart. By the end of the course you have words you can use that will intimidate even mathematics professors. Your choices of job now include getting lynched for doing animal research (despite whatever it is you really do in that lab) and burger flipping. Have a nice day.
Astrophysics: You thought the world was small and insignificant? You'll really find out how utterly, utterly pointless and futile the whole of existence is in the grand scheme of things. Realise all those interesting black hole and parallel universe theories only get discussed by Stephen Hawking in order to sell more books and noone is going to touch it on your course. Spend six months studying a small star six billion light years away that may not actually exist anymore. Wish you'd taken a different course that gave you more of a psychological crutch.