New college degrees designed to job-proof graduates

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  NPR.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Ricky Mulvey.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  Case Brown is a senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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  He wants to be a doctor, maybe an anesthesiologist,

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  or maybe an orthopedic surgeon because he used to be a baseball player.

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  I would love to work with athletes as well.

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  But at the end of the day, it's open to whatever I fall in love with in med school.

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  Case entered UT San Antonio as a biology major, but he recently switched majors to something called health sciences.

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  It's a brand new degree that the university launched this year.

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  The idea is to make students more competitive in professional programs for medicine.

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  Dentistry, and other healthcare careers.

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  UT San Antonio isn't the only college that's updating its course catalog for a new generation of students.

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  Dozens of schools have introduced artificial intelligence programs.

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  Arizona State University offers a Bachelor's of Arts in content creation, aka influencing.

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  Have ring light.

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  We'll learn.

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  I think my teen is going to be all over this program.

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  Today on the show, we look at how colleges

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