Want a Masters degree in Youniverse Studies?

Academia catching up with the modern world? Apparently.

The UK's Birmingham City University is offering a social media course- so if you're fluent in Facebook, turned on to Twitter and know your way around some of the more crazily patterned MySpace pages, you could have just found a Masters degree right up your street. As long as you've got the £4,400 tuition fees for the one year course (assuming the Government doesn't increase that further), you've struck gold.  

New plans to replace history or geography in schools with blogs and Twitter seem a bit laughable when you consider that the generation of kids who will be being 'taught' will be growing up with social media as a given. I'm not convinced that they'll need teaching how to be technologically fluent and I think they'll probably know more than the teachers. Surely that's not going to make for an engaging lesson?

Joking aside, is social media something that really needs to be taught? Is it something you can even teach?