Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

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.

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