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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:59:01 CST
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- From: Irvin Peckham <peckham@CWIS.UNOMAHA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Composition Digest" at Jan 4, 93 7:00 pm
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- > As an undergrad I had to take 12 hrs of required German language (the
- > specific language was mandated by ones major which for me began as
- > Chemistry). I had to take history, and a few electives from a very
- > constrained range. Even at the senior level there was one required
- > (non-English) "elective" which I hated to have to take.
- >
- > I assumed that most colleges had some required core courses. Is this just
- > naive?
- >
- > -- Robert Royar (RobertRoyar@Delphi.com) New York Institute of Technology
- > "If the Russians can get rid of the Communists, the Americans can get rid
- > of the Republicans." - Rudy Rucker
- >
- > ------------------------------
- >
- Robert:
- The following is a casual inquiry: are these other required courses
- taught by adjuncts and ta's? I assume it goes without saying that
- lower status courses are taught by lower status people--people without
- degrees.
-
- On another plane: are these required courses more common in state
- colleges and universities than in the elite ivy league schools? One may
- argue that students who attend the ivies are better prepared (and of course
- they are) than the generally working class students--the ones who go to
- the cheaper schools, but I wonder if another social imperative is at
- work here?
- Irv
-
- --
- Irvin Peckham
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- peckham@unomaha.edu
-