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SR HUMANITIES

German translation: Geisteswissenschaften (Oberstufe)

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English term or phrase:SR HUMANITIES
German translation:Geisteswissenschaften (Oberstufe)
Entered by: Kim Metzger

15:53 Jan 20, 2002
English to German translations [PRO]
/ HIGH SCHOOL
English term or phrase: SR HUMANITIES
Name of a course (HIGH SCHOOL). Does anybody know what the abbreviation SR stands for?
BBruno
Local time: 06:03
senior
Explanation:
My guess is that this is a course in humanities at the senior level, i.e. for high school seniors. Maybe you could translate it as (Geisteswissenschaften) Oberstufe
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 22:03
Grading comment
Thanks a lot, also for all the other helpful answers. I'm getting mad about this translation, it's just one page but full of abbreviations etc... Regards, Birgit
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4 +4senior
Kim Metzger
4Sacred Rites
Ursula Peter-Czichi


  

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senior


Explanation:
My guess is that this is a course in humanities at the senior level, i.e. for high school seniors. Maybe you could translate it as (Geisteswissenschaften) Oberstufe


    Former US high school teacher
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 22:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 2690
Grading comment
Thanks a lot, also for all the other helpful answers. I'm getting mad about this translation, it's just one page but full of abbreviations etc... Regards, Birgit

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Klaus Herrmann: Search for "senior humanities" yields 539 hits
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agree  Pro Lingua
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agree  Susan Starling
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agree  Sandra Schlatter
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Sacred Rites


Explanation:
This is the only other possibility, which I know (there might be more).

Here is a catalog for a humanities curriculum:
SR: Way of Sacred Rite
RA: Way of Right Action
D: Way of Devotion (Bhakti)
SM: Way of Shamanic Mediation
MQ: Way of Mystical Quest
RI: Way of Reasoned Inquiry

http://www.aar-site.org/syllabus/syllabi/c/cannon/wvideos.ht...

Ursula Peter-Czichi
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PRO pts in pair: 78
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