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Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 7:14
Tom Wier wrote:
> It has to do with the way in which university classes tend to > be labeled in the United States. Every class is both assigned > a proper name, and a alphanumeric code, to designate the > relative difficulty of the class. For example, the historical > linguistics class I took was called "LIN 345: Language > change and Language variation". Here at the University of > Texas, the first number (the 3) indicates it's worth three > credit hours, while the second two numbers indicate whether > a class is upper division or not (greater than 20, here, indicates > it is). But UT is somewhat strange in that respect; other > universities (or so I've seen) who don't have so baroque a > system, usually just assign a number, the lower, the easier.
In the state of Florida, all Universities have the same system. Classes are given a four digit number, for instance, my Sounds of Human Languages class is LIN 3010. The first digit indicates the year, 1 = freshman, 2 = sophomore, 3 = junior, 4= senior, and above 4 indicates graduate-level, I think. The last three numbers each have a meaning as well, but I forget what they are. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor