Origin and meaning of 101
Jim
I saw some headings like "Weekend Gardens 101" or "Downloading 101",
etc. I guess that the number "101" is possibly originated from code
numbers of college courses for freshmen. Could someone comment on the
origin of 101?
jim
Robert Lipton
Three digits make possible lots of courses. The lowest number that
clearly has three digits is 101.
Bob
Ken Johnsen
The construction [anything] 101 is an American coinage to refer to the most
basic level of knowledge or understanding about [anything]. The derivation
is from the college course numbering scheme used here in which the "100"
level of courses is the most basic/elementary and 101 is the lowest rung on
that ladder, thus Geography 101 would begin with "The world is round..."
Ken
Chuck Maurer
On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 18:14:23 GMT, ta...@rt66.com (Jim) wrote:
>
>I saw some headings like "Weekend Gardens 101" or "Downloading 101",
>etc. I guess that the number "101" is possibly originated from code
>numbers of college courses for freshmen. Could someone comment on the
>origin of 101?
>
The term as used refers to a first course. It is to introduce someone who knows
nothing about Weekend Gardens or Downloading to the subject. It comes from
course numbers. The first one as a course refers to a first year class. The
'01' is the first class. Hence the first class of the first year.
>jim
Lloyd Zusman
lip...@dorsai.org (Robert Lipton) writes:
> In article <3502df12...@news.rt66.com>, Jim wrote:
> >
> >I saw some headings like "Weekend Gardens 101" or "Downloading 101",
> >etc. I guess that the number "101" is possibly originated from code
> >numbers of college courses for freshmen. Could someone comment on the
> >origin of 101?
>
> Three digits make possible lots of courses. The lowest number that
> clearly has three digits is 101.
Correction: 101 is the second-lowest positive integer with three
digits. Furthermore, some colleges number the lowest-level courses
with 100. However, 101 is indeed more commonly used for this purpose
in the U.S. colleges I'm familiar with.
By the way, does anyone know of a single word meaning "second-lowest"
that serves a parallel function as the word "penultimate"?
--
Lloyd Zusman
l...@asfast.com
Bill Bonde
Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
> Correction: 101 is the second-lowest positive integer with three
> digits. Furthermore, some colleges number the lowest-level courses
> with 100. However, 101 is indeed more commonly used for this purpose
> in the U.S. colleges I'm familiar with.
>
> By the way, does anyone know of a single word meaning "second-lowest"
> that serves a parallel function as the word "penultimate"?
>
>
Steve MacGregor
Robert Lipton <lip...@dorsai.org> wrote in article
<slrn6g5qde...@amanda.dorsai.org>...
<<Three digits make possible lots of courses. The lowest number
that clearly has three digits is 101.>>
Most of us can think of one lower than that.
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Mike Page
On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 23:35:18 GMT, cma...@dhc.net (Chuck Maurer)
wrote:
>On Sun, 08 Mar 1998 18:14:23 GMT, ta...@rt66.com (Jim) wrote:
>
>>
>>I saw some headings like "Weekend Gardens 101" or "Downloading 101",
>>etc. I guess that the number "101" is possibly originated from code
>>numbers of college courses for freshmen. Could someone comment on the
>>origin of 101?
>>
>The term as used refers to a first course. It is to introduce someone who knows
>nothing about Weekend Gardens or Downloading to the subject. It comes from
>course numbers. The first one as a course refers to a first year class. The
>'01' is the first class. Hence the first class of the first year.
Would an introductory course on pet-keeping be 'Dalmatians 101'?
Mike Page
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Eric The Read
lip...@dorsai.org (Robert Lipton) writes:
> In article <3502df12...@news.rt66.com>, Jim wrote:
> >
> >I saw some headings like "Weekend Gardens 101" or "Downloading 101",
> >etc. I guess that the number "101" is possibly originated from code
> >numbers of college courses for freshmen. Could someone comment on the
> >origin of 101?
>
> clearly has three digits is 101.
It should be noted that many universities, among them CU (Colorado, that
is), and UIUC (as I'm led to believe), use four-digit class numbers, for
reasons that totally elude me. Surely none of these institutions have
more than 999 courses in any given department?
-=Eric
Aaron J. Dinkin
> By the way, does anyone know of a single word meaning "second-lowest"
> that serves a parallel function as the word "penultimate"?
Well, following the paradigm of "penultimate" would yield "peniminimal"; I
don't like it but if you want a single word I don't know how much better
you can do.
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom
Maxim Westman
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My school uses 3-digit course codes and 4-digit computer codes for each
classtime the course is available. Possibly those schools are doing something
similar--I can imagine a school teaching more than 999 classes a
semester/quarter/whatever.
M.
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Eric The Read
matan...@starplace.commander (Maxim Westman) writes:
> Look, a Post-It Note© from "Eric The Read" <emsc...@mail.uccs.edu>!
> |is), and UIUC (as I'm led to believe), use four-digit class numbers, for
> |reasons that totally elude me. Surely none of these institutions have
> |more than 999 courses in any given department?
> `-----
>
> My school uses 3-digit course codes and 4-digit computer codes for each
> classtime the course is available. Possibly those schools are doing
> something similar--I can imagine a school teaching more than 999
> classes a semester/quarter/whatever.
So can I-- but this isn't happening here. The course codes are in fact
four digits; for example, the Intro to Computers course might be "CS
1001". They use 6- or 8-digit codes to identify the individual courses
and sections for each to the registration computer system.
-=Eric
Cheryl L Perkins
Eric The Read (emsc...@mail.uccs.edu) wrote:
: It should be noted that many universities, among them CU (Colorado, that
: is), and UIUC (as I'm led to believe), use four-digit class numbers, for
: reasons that totally elude me. Surely none of these institutions have
: more than 999 courses in any given department?
They might not be numbered from 1-999. Some of the digits might indicate
the subject area, the faculty, the year of the program in which the course
is normally taken, whether the course is intended for majors or
non-majors... there are lots of possibilities.
Cheryl
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cper...@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca
Lee Rudolph
CU inflated from 3- to 4-digit integer class designators during the
period when the Family Linguist was on the faculty there. As far as
she knew, the administration's major motivation was the same one that
motivated the manufacturers of pinball machines (over a course of several
decades) to go from scores in the thousands to scores in the millions to
scores in the billions: overnight, students in Introductory Linguistics
for Communications Majors were taking a 1000-level course instead of
a 100-level course! Looking good!! Academics at CU is going to catch
up with Coach Bill's fab football team!!!
Brown and Brandeis Universities are two examples where 2-digit
integer class designators are still used (I think it's reverse
snobbism, myself). And MIT, rationally, continues to use decimal
designators, e.g., 18.002 (a class in Course 18, Mathematics)
or 6.140 (a class in EE, I think).
Lee Rudolph
SLHinton17
Eric The Read (emsc...@mail.uccs.edu) wrote:
>It should be noted that many universities, among them CU (Colorado, that >is),
and UIUC (as I'm led to believe), use four-digit class numbers, for >reasons
that totally elude me. Surely none of these institutions have
>more than 999 courses in any given department?
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FWIW, the University of California, San Diego, uses numbers 1-99 for
lower-division courses, 100-199 for upper-division, and 200s for graduate
courses. Courses that last for more than a quarter have A,B,C added to them,
as in Mathematics 2A, 2B, 2C (Calculus and Analytic Geometry.) For years I
regularly taught Literature 166 (The Forms of Folklore) and 199 ( Special
Studies: undergraduate research projects.) Some of the other UC campuses have
used similar designations; I taught one quarter at UCLA, teaching Biology 12
(for non-majors) and Folklore 155 (The Forms of Folklore.)
Sam Hinton
La Jolla, CA