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Re: OT: US university course numbering (was Re: "to be" and not to be in the world's languages)

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Sunday, April 2, 2006, 14:08
On 01/04/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <tristan@...> wrote:

> Hm, that's another one that I think differs. Americans seem to use > "school" to refer to university, whereas in the context of > universities it usually refers to something more specific than a > department (i.e. you'll have the Faculty, then the Department, then a > School, tho not all Departments are divided into Schools (like the > Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at La Trobe), > and some Departments consist of only one School (like the > Department/School of Psychology).
Actually, I got that backwards: Faculty/School/Department. The School of Engineering, Mathematical Sciences, of which the Department of CS&CE is a part never mentions itself in my presence, versus the unsubdivided School of Psychology, which is why I was confused. -- Tristan.

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