Date:  Sun, 24 Sep 1995 23:26:40 -0700

From:  Rima & Kim McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>

Subject: Linguistics as GE



At 1:24 PM 9/24/95, Barbara Need wrote:

>Well, for starters, Linguistics is NOT an English course (unless it

>happens to be taught in an English Dept). It has value for persons

>studying ANY language. It teaches you not how to use language, but

>to understand how language is used: what its buidling blocks are,

>how it changes, how society and societies use it to shape their

>being.

A suggestion: consider "Linguistics for the non-major." Do any of you word

types remember having to take physics/calculus/chemistry courses designed

for majors-and having to compete with pre-med majors?  Profs in those

areas were challenged to create courses around the question, "What about

your subject does ANY Educated Person need to know?"



kim