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Subject:RE: BA vs. BS degrees From:"walden miller" <wmiller -at- vidiom -dot- com> To:"Harry Bacheler" <hbacheler -at- geo -dot- census -dot- gov>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:32:38 -0700
Actually, most universities will consider "artificial" language courses for
"foreign" language credit. This follows the linguistic research in
artificial language construction. At ISU, I know there was a full
artificial language course set on the MA/PHD level.
I have no problem with it. People who want to learn non-english spoken
languages, will take courses or go live in other countries. This should not
be a barrier to graduation.
Walden
> To all:
>
> I was told that at one time, the University of New Mexico gave language
> credit for "COBOL", FORTRAN", and similar languages.
> (Considering them as
> "foreign languages, indeed, (snort)(chuckle, chuckle))
>
> Harry
>
