Comments on: A more considered approach to Heslington East http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:05:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Steve http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52547 Steve Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:30:27 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52547 What is with the rant for classics? We need to appreciate the demand for subjects and media is much more popular than classics. Why not have a languages dept? Surely a uni like York should have one. Yet, the demand simply isn't there and universities have to play to demand somewhat, because after all, they are businesses. Anthropology I imagine would be ridiculed in the same fashion as sociology is now and considered a soft subject. York not only has the academic expertise for a media, theatre and film dept but through the high numbers of students who applied for writing and performance, there is clearly a demand. Your analysis fails to take into account financial feasibility and rather rudely disregards York's already established reputation as a great media teaching environment. In today's society I think media has to be a priority over classics - the study of which forms the foundation and background for practically all existing courses at York - why separate it into a degree of its own? What is with the rant for classics? We need to appreciate the demand for subjects and media is much more popular than classics. Why not have a languages dept? Surely a uni like York should have one. Yet, the demand simply isn’t there and universities have to play to demand somewhat, because after all, they are businesses. Anthropology I imagine would be ridiculed in the same fashion as sociology is now and considered a soft subject. York not only has the academic expertise for a media, theatre and film dept but through the high numbers of students who applied for writing and performance, there is clearly a demand. Your analysis fails to take into account financial feasibility and rather rudely disregards York’s already established reputation as a great media teaching environment. In today’s society I think media has to be a priority over classics - the study of which forms the foundation and background for practically all existing courses at York - why separate it into a degree of its own?

]]> By: Chris Northwood http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52544 Chris Northwood Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:45:48 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52544 Logic in the classical sense is normally considered a branch of philosophy, so is really not applicable to the black and white worlds of True and False that the computing version of logic deals with, that's handled by something called Boolean algebra which wasn't theorised until the mid-19th century. Any link between classics and Computer Science you could draw would be tedious at best. Logic in the classical sense is normally considered a branch of philosophy, so is really not applicable to the black and white worlds of True and False that the computing version of logic deals with, that’s handled by something called Boolean algebra which wasn’t theorised until the mid-19th century. Any link between classics and Computer Science you could draw would be tedious at best.

]]> By: Anon http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52537 Anon Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:50:38 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52537 I'm not a computer scientist nor an electroneer (or whatever it is they're called), but don't both subject derive quite a lot from the classical studies of logic and mathematics? I’m not a computer scientist nor an electroneer (or whatever it is they’re called), but don’t both subject derive quite a lot from the classical studies of logic and mathematics?

]]> By: Chris Northwood http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52516 Chris Northwood Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:07:04 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/06/19/a-more-considered-approach-to-heslington-east/#comment-52516 >> It’s almost impossible to think of a subject that doesn’t have foundations in the classical period. Computer Science. The earliest you could date that back to is the mid-19th century and George Boole. You could probably count Electronics too! >> It’s almost impossible to think of a subject that doesn’t have foundations in the classical period.

Computer Science. The earliest you could date that back to is the mid-19th century and George Boole. You could probably count Electronics too!

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