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An SDR or DDS question?
Brian Reay wrote:
Roger Hayter wrote: snip Well that's yet another difference. Until the great dumbing-down of university courses in the UK in recent years,[1] first degrees tended not to be modular, and the department of the primary subject arranged lecturers in necessary ancillary subjects as part of the main course. [1] which doesn't apply to all universities. A stunningly inaccurate statement. It was possible to take different modules in top rated Universities (from a selected list) to get a degree 40 years ago. Including Oxbridge. Things like PPE, or PPP you mean? Whatever the theory, in practice you couldn't dream up your own combination, there were some established ones It still is. True, you couldn't mix, say, engineering and tourism That of course is what I meant. You couldn't do a Keele style degree of knitting, Serbo-Croat, media studies and physics. I wasn't trying to imply that their was no choice of modules in a subject. The point I was making, of course, that things like computer programming for chemists, while taught by the subject experts, was part of the Chemistry degree, not a separately credited module. but different modules in engineering (for example) were perfectly normal. Typically, the first year was fixed but after that you could specialise in, say, digital electronics and computing or electrical engineering and electronics. -- Roger Hayter |
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