Mickey Mouse degrees

Mickey Mouse degrees (or Mickey Mouse courses) is a term for university degree courses regarded as worthless or irrelevant. The term is a dysphemism, originating in the common usage of "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative. It came to prominence in the UK after use by the country's national tabloids.

In Canada bird courses refer to courses "requiring little work or intellectual ability", but the Canadian term has no connotations of irrelevance. Also, any specific course can be a bird course for some but not a bird course for others. So the Canadian term is not equivalent to the British term.