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<font size=3>At 08:11 AM 3/23/2004, Page Stephens wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>101 no doubt stems from academic
usage in terms of the designation of the<br>
first course in any subject but in my memory before for whatever reason
all<br>
too many colleges/universities designated beginning courses by adding the
10<br>
as a prefix to 1 we used to call beginning courses as 1, i.e. Physics
1,<br>
Chemistry 1, English 1, etc. The second courses in the subject would then
be<br>
entitled 2, 3, etc.<br><br>
If anyone out there has any idea where or when 101 replaced 1 I would
love<br>
to learn about it.<br><br>
Page Stephens<br><br>
PS. why not 1 as opposed to 101.<br>
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Even stranger, I found when I arrived at Wayne State University that
courses here had grown an additional digit, so that Freshman English is
now 1010. This change happened several years ago--recent enough
that some of my colleagues still call courses by their three-digit names
(so 2720 is still 272). Since this changes the morphology
considerably I have to stop and do arithmetic to figure out which course
they are talking about.<br><br>
Geoff</font></body>
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