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Linguistics and Philosophy should be separate. Just because MIT does it, doesn't mean we all should. I just don't want to have to be the one to go through all those blogs...
Okay, per the request, a starting of the discussion over here. Philosophy pretty clearly belongs in the Humanities section, but where would bioethics go? You could make arguments for it belonging in the Humanities, with Philosophy (even as a subsection of), but could also argue it belonging, with medicine, in the Useful Arts/Professions.
- A tough call - any bioethicists out there? My best guess is that it is closer to philosophy than medicine, but I'm willing to defer to a consensus.
- It would be handy if people taking part in dicussion could create accounts and sign contributions with four tildes, like so John Quiggin 19:07, 3 October 2006 (EDT)
Here's a start at a list for Chemistry (I'm not a chemist, but I read a couple of these, and I've followed links between them before):
ToddJohnson 23:20, 3 October 2006 (EDT)
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I am not sure if new comments are meant to go above or below old ones; this is my first contribution to such a wiki. In any case, I was hoping that International Relations can be added under 'Social Sciences.' Thanks.
Sindark 15:15, 3 October 2006 (GMT)
ToddJohnson, thanks - I will create a chemistry page. Sindark - as a practising IR scholar, I'm not in favour of creating a separate IR category - it is usually treated as part of political science (albeit not in the UK for a variety of historical reasons). But if a substantial majority consensus emerges suggesting that I should make this change, I will Henry 14:48, 4 October 2006 (EDT).
I took the liberty (since this is a wiki, after all) of changing "Culture, Theory, and Literature" to "Culture, Theory, Literature, and Rhetoric," though I couldn't do so on the home page. If you think this is wrong, change it back, but my rationale is that these are all English Department kinds of things. Rhet/Comp is a major specialty within English, and should be a blog category. This helps resolve some category problems, such as "Kairosnews" being put under "Who Knows?" when it is a rhetoric blog.
Rob Milde-- username robmilde -- I don't know how to add the timestamp that others have put on their comments: it's 15:35, 4 October 2006 EST
- Type four tildes at the end! John Quiggin 16:15, 4 October 2006 (EDT)
- The only problem with the change by Rob is that it doesn't change the URL or (more compellingly) the listing on the main page. So, a person looking for blogs on rhetoric still wouldn't necessarily know where to look. I don't have an opinion on whether or not rhetoric is added to the name of the category, but I think it makes sense to maintain consistency between the names of categories on the main page and the individual pages. ToddJohnson 16:30, 4 October 2006 (EDT)
- Thanks for the tip. Yes, perhaps I acted like a newbie, which I am when it comes to wikis. I would like to appeal to the Powers to add Rhetoric to the category, and I humbly apologize for introducing the first lacuna. Robmilde 21:59, 4 October 2006 (EDT)
- Actually, I'd like to see "Rhetoric and Composition" as its own category under Humanities. I can trot out reasons if anyone's interested, but it's rapidly (and officially) becoming a distinct discipline, if it isn't already. There are programs (PhD-granting), including my own, that aren't housed in English departments. Collin Brooke --Cgbrooke 20:53, 6 October 2006 (EDT)
- I'm a little reluctant to create new categories unless they are clearly established disciplines rather than emerging disciplines. If there's evidence of the former; i.e. a substantial number (more than 20???) of separate departments, and a situation where most rhetoricians teach and work in these departments rather than elsewhere, I'll create a new category. I note that my own discipline, IR, has a few separate departments but isn't listed separately, b/c I think it is less confusing to list it under political science, given that most IR scholars work in pol-sci departments. On a separate note, I'm changing the title of Culture, Theory and Literature back temporarily as per Todd Johnson, not b/c I have a stake in whether it's explicitly included, but b/c I think that this should be decided by people on the page. I'd recommend that people start a discussion on the relevant page - if a consensus develops that rhetoric ought to be included, I will reinstate the changes both on this page and on the main page. Henry 22:27, 6 October 2006 (EDT)
- Art history does have literally hundreds of distinct departments. Maybe because there are so many non-academic art blogs, though, it's a bit hard to distinguish the academic ones. Legitimately academic ones I've found on a quick google search:
- http://smarthistory.blogspot.com
- http://www.crankyprofessor.com/
- http://www.cronaca.com/
- http://calypsospots.blogspot.com/
- http://sedis.blogspot.com/
- http://churchandart.blogspot.com/
- http://laurentheartnerd.blogspot.com/
- --rabbit
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New category: university museums
I suggest adding a new category under "Other parts of the academy", viz. University Museums -- there are hundreds of them out there, and like us, they are beginning to get blogs.' All the best, Thomas
Sounds like a reasonable proposal - any other voices pro or con???Henry
Henry category added - as per request
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New Category Faculty Development
Since I and several other university faculty write blogs aimed at improving university teaching, I think this would be a useful category. Here are two of my blogs to kick things off.
Medical Education Blog is primarily for medical faculty but many of the teaching and technology articles are universal. [1]
Active Learning Blog Carnival invites monthly submissions about active learning techniques and examples [2]
