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It's great when they move sociologists into the realm of the web, they're great for understanding the dynamics of web communities such as this. :)
Sparker-you make some good points. I majored in Advertising in college, focused on creative and interactive work. When I'd be in graphics classes or doing indipendant study stuff with Flash, I'd see these students that were the straight Fine Arts path, that couldn't rationalize a single decision about their design. No focus on what their work was about really other than the look of it.
I'm not saying that everything has to have some huge theme behind it, but I saw too many people lost in what they were doing.
I would always reccomend taking some courses in Advertising if you're studying graphic design. Not advertising graphic courses, but communication courses, courses that deal with marketing, branding, legal aspects, etc. Gives you quite a nice perspective on what you're creating in that you start to see how it's going to relate to people, how it's going to be perceived.
CreateOnline had an article about this in one of their first issues, about how web design firms were looking for designers with advertising degrees and backgrounds because they had a much different perspective on the work as opposed to flying around through Photoshop doing what they were told to do by someone else.
disclaimer: don't worry, this isn't a must. there's plenty of stuff out there that is excellent by people who didn't study a second of advertising :) but it is helpful.