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If someone here has gone to college, then they'll know what 101 means - course numbering.

• Dewie 13y ago
  The courses that I've taken that were very basic and introductory was named 100. The next one was perhaps 101. Introductory courses in more specialized courses often had numbers signifying which research group they belonged to, with a low number at the end. Practices vary, even at my own university. I'm guessing that 101 specifically is an americanism.
  • beachstartup 13y ago
    from my experience almost no schools in america still use 101 as the introductory course. at this point, it's basically an idiomatic expression of american english.
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > If someone here has gone to college, then they'll know what 101 means - course numbering. At most colleges whose course numbering system I've seen, the kind of introductory course that the idiom "101" refers to would actually be "1"; at many of them, "101" would be an upper division class. Its an idiom that may have connected to some colleges' numbering system at some time, but it mostly exists independently now, and actually going to college doesn't actually make its intended meaning any more obvious.
  • kjs3 13y ago
    I went to 4 colleges, applied to a number of others (not all US based), taught at a few and am giving advice to friends kids now going to college. With minor variations (3-digit v 4-digit course numbers) I've never, ever seen a college course with a single digit course number. Or 2 digit. But then, I've never met an English speaker so culturally tone deaf that they would question the idiom "Foo 101" as being anything other than "intro to Foo".
• lmm 13y ago
  Only in American.