Talk:Bachelor's degree/Archive 2005

B.Phil

I think there should be some mention of the B.Phil, a degree awarded at many undergraduate honors colleges. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Missingw0rds (talk • contribs) 14:02, 11 February 2005 (UTC)

I've added it, as well as turning hyphens into proper dashes, correcting the abreviations by adding punctuation (which is certainly the official style for most if not all universities), and correcting the abbreviation for the Ll.B. I started a B.Phil. article recently, and added a brief mention of undergraduate degrees by that name. If there's anything that you think deserves to be added (or changed), please do so. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:26, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

B.L.A.

(presumably, no one wants a B.L.A.)

Why not? Because "liberal arts" is not a valid, scholarly discipline? Or is this sort of a joke, that BLA would be pronounced "blah?" People want "B.S.," I don't see how that's any worse than "B.L.A."

In any case, because the degree title is in Latin, the adjective should (not must, but should) come after the noun it modifies. It's an artis liberalis baccalaureate, or a baccalaureate artis liberalis, not a baccalaureate liberalis artis. (Apologies for the inevitable Latin errors; it's been years since I've touched my copy of Wheelock's.)

I'm going to be bold and edit the B.L.A. remark out, as I can't really see any reason for it to be there.

--68.41.122.213 07:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)