19. "RE: It's Always Something dep't"
In response to message #17
>For the last couple of years, my advisor and I have been proceeding >under the impression that the work I've done in digital scholarship, >historical geography, and geographic information systems...would be >acceptable as a substitute for the time-worn insistence that graduate >students show functional knowledge of a foreign language.
I want to know how your advisor formed this impression, because it seems to me that this is the sort of thing that somebody should have put down in writing, to wave before the board. Either that, or the impression should have been corrected before this point.