Take Latin?

College Majors Math/Computer Science Majors
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<p>My professor and I are emailing each other and he highly suggested I take Latin I. My major is computer science. He tells me that it will be beneficial to my major and any science career, that it counts as Honors credit, and that this class comes rarely. He seems to be really interested in me taking the class but I am unsure. I am a freshmen.</p>

<p>Any thoughts/suggestions?</p>

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<p>My son is going to be majoring in Latin in college, although he intends to go to medical school after that. I really don’t see how Latin is going to help for a computer science major, especially since it is not a language that is readily used in the world of today’s business. What foreign language did you take in high school? I would consider continuing with the language that you already studied.</p>

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<p>I took Spanish but I wasn’t really too fondly interested in it. To be honest I wanted to self-study Arabic as it’s in my culture/heritage but I never had the time to do it lately haha.</p>

4

<p>Your professor is giving you bad advice. Latin has nothing to do with computer science, unless you plan to work on some kind of Latin translator.</p>

5

<p>I figured. It counts as GE credit, and I was wondering how it would relate to computer science at all. But thank you, I think my decision became a little easier to make now.</p>

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<p>I have taken Latin for 6 years, and I would highly recommend it to you for a number of reasons:

  1. it tends to come easily for sciency people; it is very structural and logical and after you have studied the basics, everything else is easily deductible
  2. you also learn about roman culture.
    Both language and culture are part of the foundation of western civilization.
  3. Latin teaches you to think straight. It trained my accuracy and precision like no other subject.
  4. it makes using elevated English vocabulary and learning other European languages so much easier because it teaches you the basic grammatical patterns and vocabulary.
  5. it is super enjoyable. </p>

<p>If it is a practical choice for you, I would take it for sure! You virtually cannot do any harm.</p>

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<p>Perhaps he is one of those CS guys who is all about languages, and believes studying a classic human language will prepare you for studying computer languages.</p>

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<p>Would you guys recommend it for someone who wasn’t very good with languages in high school? I am kinda interested in it but languages I have a real struggle on.</p>