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English translation: Mathematics (For the Department of Humanities)

03:08 Feb 1, 2010
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy
Chinese term or phrase: 文
In an academic transcript, this appears next to one of the listed course names in brackets:

学业成绩单

课程名称

经济学
数学(文)
投资学

I can't figure out what the 文 here refers to, any ideas?

Thanks
David Smith
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:28
English translation:Mathematics (For the Department of Humanities)
Explanation:
As Donglai said, this course is specially arranged for students in the department of humanities.
(文) here means 文科， in China it not only covers department of liberal arts, but also school of law and school of politics and international relationships. When I was a law school student, I took 数学(文) as my core module.
So I think "department of humanities" is more suitable here.
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Henry Zhang
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:28
Grading comment
All 3 answers seem correct, but your seems to be the one for me in this particular context.

Thanks for your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7arts/liberal arts
Donglai Lou (X)
4 +1Mathematics (For the Department of Humanities)
Henry Zhang
3BA curriculum
franksf


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
arts/liberal arts


Explanation:
In Chinese Universities, there are three major streams, respectively liberal arts, science and engineering. Here, the charater "文" indicates that the math couse is a part of liberal arts curriculum and easier than the math course for the other two streams.

Donglai Lou (X)
China
Local time: 07:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Lickorish: http://www.lw23.com/lunwen_256888162/
4 mins
agree  Kathy Huang (X)
31 mins
agree  Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL
1 hr
agree  albertdeng
1 hr
agree  rolfo
7 hrs
agree  Adsion Liu
11 hrs
agree  Grace Liu
1 day 1 hr
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Mathematics (For the Department of Humanities)


Explanation:
As Donglai said, this course is specially arranged for students in the department of humanities.
(文) here means 文科， in China it not only covers department of liberal arts, but also school of law and school of politics and international relationships. When I was a law school student, I took 数学(文) as my core module.
So I think "department of humanities" is more suitable here.

Henry Zhang
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:28
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
All 3 answers seem correct, but your seems to be the one for me in this particular context.

Thanks for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  smc
8 hrs
  -> Thank you, smc!
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
BA curriculum


Explanation:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/ba/curriculum.html

数学(文) - Mathematics (BA curriculum)
数学(理) - Mathematics (BS curriculum)

The Mathematics (BA curriculum) is a light version of the Mathematics (BS curriculum). For example, calculus is often taught as a set of rules without dabbling with limits, the Riemann sum, not to mention the Lebesque measure and all that interesting but less "practical" stuff.


franksf
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 20
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