Another Curriculum Conspiracy Debunked

[SMU 86]

Wasn't a requirement recently passed requiring all Student to have a foreign language before they graduate from SMU? Also Stallion, what about athlete friendly majors?

[Junior]

They count dead languages, I took Latin in HS. One question, I noticed that my neice took sign language to fulfill her HS foreign language requirement in Virginia. Is that now considered a foreign language by SMU?

was it spanish sign language?

[BigT3x]

I don't think anyone on our football team has any experience using hand signals...

[PK]

I don't think anyone on our football team has any experience using hand signals...

A+

...but our fans do.

[ender3]

Ha! Yeah Pal-SMU's big obstacle to a strong athletic program is that they have to take a foreign language just like Texas High School students. Ha! Wow! SMU students have always had to take a foreign language(or place out based on test in first year). You know why I know that? Because my mom was the Head of the Foreign Language Department at SMU. That has always been a requirement at SMU even in the Pony Express days. I took the test and placed out the entire requirement. Let me repeat-SMU's foreign language requirement is no more an obstacle to a successful athletic department than any other required curiculum.

Actually, not true.

I graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics, and I neither took, nor placed out, of any foreign language. I did take a great deal of Spanish throughout middle and high school. One of the "arms" of the core curriculum was HEAVILY populated with foreign languages, but there ARE ways to avoid it. I, for instance, took anthropology, and that fulfilled the requirement.

That said, I'm not quite sure why we're discussing this here. It doesn't affect admissions, and I refuse to believe that any athlete is making decisions based on what classes will be required WHILE attending university.

[Topper]

When SMU offers the same degree plans in phys ed and other sports related degrees offered at the big state schools then we will be on their academic level. Fortunately, we are graduating our kids unlike Saint Mack Brown.