Choices of new Alberta government will affect the rest of Canada

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kontiki
My point is most great universities are not know for their computer programs. If the significance of a university is lost on you because they don't crank out many IBM interns, then that's an incredibly narrow minded point of view.

The significance of the university is not lost on me, it's just not known to me. How should I know how strong UChicago's sociology program is.

I commented on the computer stuff because that's what I do know, and I prefaced that as such.

You can get off your high horse now.

(I also disagree that "most" great universities are not known for their computer programs, most great universities have strong computer programs)

[GePap]

Chicago has a very weak computer sciences program, but world class physics, mathematics, and chemistry programs- in essence, those fields that make computer science possible.

Chicago generally puts out conservative ideas: Milton Friedman worked for some time at Chicago, Scalia and Ashcroft went to the Law School. In Pol Sci the hard core realists are very strong, and Chicago is part of the movement (which I dislike) of sticking more Math into social sciences.

The school is also conservative in the sense that there is a core curriculum and students are essentially forced to study a wide field of things. Chicago is generally a Gradutate University and Graduate and College students Mix, so Chicago has a higher average age of students than say Harvard or Yale.

It was founded by the Rockefellers, and it also has a Divinity school, and the tallest building by law (or charter, whatever) has to be the huge chapel- which is now non-dinominational.

Finally, it has an immense collection in its library, I think definitelly one of the top 5 collections out of universities in the country.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by GePap
Chicago has a very weak computer sciences program, but world class physics, mathematics, and chemistry programs- in essence, those fields that make computer science possible.

Don't forget though, without computers, none of these fields would have adanced as much as they did.

Originally posted by GePap
The school is also conservative in the sense that there is a core curriculum and students are essentially forced to study a wide field of things.

A lot of old-school schools are like that. Even MIT.

[Tingkai]

Do people refer to the University of Chicago as U of C?

[Ben Kenobi]

Link Byfield?

I prefer Breitkreutz myself.

You should be thankful to have 2 such sterling candidates.

[Ben Kenobi]

Not bad, Betty Unger's a sweet Senator.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Do people refer to the University of Chicago as U of C?

Yep.

[notyoueither]

What about California?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by GePap
Chicago has a very weak computer sciences program, but world class physics, mathematics, and chemistry programs- in essence, those fields that make computer science possible.

Chicago generally puts out conservative ideas: Milton Friedman worked for some time at Chicago, Scalia and Ashcroft went to the Law School. In Pol Sci the hard core realists are very strong, and Chicago is part of the movement (which I dislike) of sticking more Math into social sciences.

The school is also conservative in the sense that there is a core curriculum and students are essentially forced to study a wide field of things. Chicago is generally a Gradutate University and Graduate and College students Mix, so Chicago has a higher average age of students than say Harvard or Yale.

It was founded by the Rockefellers, and it also has a Divinity school, and the tallest building by law (or charter, whatever) has to be the huge chapel- which is now non-dinominational.

Finally, it has an immense collection in its library, I think definitelly one of the top 5 collections out of universities in the country.

Umm, making social sciences more mathematical is making them more scientific. A good thing, although I still wouldn't call the social sciences actual sciences yet.

Jon Miller

[Max Webster]

Will a new Alberta goverment mean less whining.

[Az]

What about California?

There are many state unis in california, so it's not a problem.

UofC is an amazing school, I heard a lot of great things about it.

[notyoueither]

I did a search of UofC on Google and picked groups. Apparently, California, Calgary, and Chicago all share it.

[Az]

well, AFAIK, there is a UoCa in Berkley, LA ( UCLA), and a couple of other places.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Azazel
well, AFAIK, there is a UoCa in Berkley, LA ( UCLA), and a couple of other places.

U of California is huge and got campuses everywhere in the state.

[Az]

So it's actually considered a single university?