Mata, aoi tsuki

[fionnidhke]

I have made a preemptive New Year's resolution to actually write in my lj at least occasionally

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[foxfour]

:waves:

i can't answer your question, but i though i'd at least say hi.

[fionnidhke]

Hi! :)

[orewashinanai]

I don't know about "approved", but it's convenient and accurate.

http://bin.yale.edu/~skf5/cgi-bin/morse/gpacalc.php

[orewashinanai]

Oh never mind that. I should read more carefully. I think the safest thing to do is just use courses listed with your major's designation, LING XXX, and then anything else that's interpreted as part of the major they tend to have a section for, no?

[fionnidhke]

Yep, that site makes life a lot easier. And yeah, the tricky bit is in what gets interpreted as part of the major... anyway, thanks for the advice.

[fionnidhke]

Shi de!
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[stolen_tea]

I think I counted anything in Ling, or cross-listed as Ling. But I had a rather standard concentration (phonology), so I didn't have any weirdness there...

[fionnidhke]

Hey! I don't have that much weirdness! In this regard, anyway. Mostly, I'm not sure whether to count all the language classes. I was required to take some (smallish) number of them, and it seems arbitrary to pick and choose how I fill that requirement, but most of them aren't technically in Ling.
Anyway, thanks -- I'll probably include everything in Ling plus all languages, then at least it will be sort of logically defensible and I won't feel guilty.

[holmes_iv]

My major was pretty cut-and-dried (with one minor quibble over MB&B 301), so I didn't have this problem, but I think the approach you're outlining here makes pretty good sense. The dicey question is whether you count the in-department (or in-language) prerequisites: if I read it right, Ling110/117 and intro foreign language courses aren't technically part of the 14-course major requirement, so they might warrant exclusion-but then, unlike the prereqs for Chemistry (Math 120 and Physics) they're part of the logical course sequence that leads to completing that requirement, so I just don't know what their status should be.

[emilymorgan]

I think you're safe if you count all the courses in a program that satisfies the major requirements, plus all ling and cross-listed ling classes that you didn't need, if any. That is to say, if you took extra courses outside your major that you could have counted toward it, you can pick and choose, I think. That's just what my instinct would be, though.

It's great to hear from you!!!

[fionnidhke]

Good to hear from you too, and thanks for the advice!