Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: foreign language requirements for PhDs
Message-ID: <1989Mar14.165213.204@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 16:52:13 GMT

In article <1304@wpi.wpi.edu> lfoard@wpi.wpi.edu (Lawrence C Foard) writes:
>It would be nice to know a foreign langauge but it would also be nice to know
>a computer langauge, relativity, electonics...

Actually, for computer science and electronics-type electrical engineering
it would make sense to require Japanese.  Not just any foreign language,
but specifically Japanese.  (The test of whether the requirement is
there because it makes sense, or just to be another hurdle to jump, is
whether you're allowed to choose a totally useless course to meet it.)

Of course, the faculty should be required to learn it first. :-)
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