NYU's program-formerly-known-as Experimental Psychology had a language requirement as recently as '93. We must not have heard Chris's laughter because I fulfilled the requirement by learning the ever-useful Modula-2 and Ada computer languages :)
Patrick >>> On 10/27/2009 at 12:50 PM, "Christopher D. Green" <chri...@yorku.ca> wrote: > michael sylvester wrote: >> >> >> There used to be some kind of a language requirement as a part of the >> grad requirement. >> I am not sure if it was in lieu of stats.Anyway,what happened to that >> idea? > > Language requirements are still common in the humanities. I had to do > French for my philosophy PhD just a few years back. Sometime after > psychology decided that it was a "natural science" (and therefore, I > suppose, spoke the "language of nature") it dumped its language > requirements most places. (I can remember some students attempting to > argue that learning a computer programing "language" should count. I > think I lost that argument because I was so busy laughing.) > > Chris --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
