<div>Dear Professor Spolsky,</div>
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<div>Greetings from Bloomington, Indiana! How about creating at least a minor in Language Policy and Planning? Cross-disciplinary areas of study are fascinating and they are increasing more and more. In my humble opinion, perhaps we need to keep the options open, because what is impossible may become possible in the years to come. </div>
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<div>Kindest regards,</div>
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<div>Serafin</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Bernard Spolsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bspolsky@gmail.com">bspolsky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">There are several related questions. One is what should a PhD be in? I have several students producing important language policy studies; and taught related courses. But I am not convinced one needs to build it as a field of study. If so, it falls into the same problem as other inter- and cross-disciplinary areas: do you expect students to be masters of all the fields involved? Politics? Linguistics? Management? Social psychology? History? Education? Law? Government? etc?
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