Hey so I’m currently a second year student, and I really need help deciding?what my next moves will be, since registrar is totally useless and never?help.?SO here’s my story:
First year – got accepted into business management.. yada yada.. did NOT?get accepted into my subject post for that. But, I took an elective to go?with earth science and I loved it!?Second Year – Absolutely love earth sciences, taken every second year?course for it currently offered, and completely excel in it. I now want to?specialize in earth sciences.?My problem however, is that I have already taken the maximum number of?first year credits, but I have never taken first year math, chem, or?physics, and I NEED those.?Where do I go from here? I don’t quite understand the whole limitation on?how many first year credits you can have.
Please help! 🙁
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hey there,
well, first of all, congratulations on figuring out what you love. that’s incredible difficult, and you got it all sorted out by second year.?secondly, you can’t have more than 6.0 100-level credits for your degree, but if you need them for a subject POSt, then you can still take them.
i can almost hear you blinking in confusion from over here.
basically, if you’ve already taken 6.0 100-level credits and you take more, they won’t count towards the 20.0 credits you need to get your degree, but they will count towards any program that you may need them for. you can take all the first-year math/chem/physics that you need for earth science, but they won’t increase your overall credit count for your degree. does that make sense? you can read about it here?under “Extra Courses: 100-series, Repeating and Excluded Courses.”
so feel free to take the courses you need over the summer and/or next year. all the specialists for earth science are unlimited enrolment/type 1’s, so you should be able to enrol in the subject POSt no problem, even before you complete those first year courses. as long as you complete them before graduation (and in time for any courses you want to take for which they’re prereqs), you’ll be all set.
best,
aska
P.S. the title of this post looks like it’s written in an alien code that only uoft students can decipher, and that makes me chuckle. if the complexity of your school’s rules are ever getting you down, take comfort in the fact that you are an expert in the complex and specific dialect of Uoftian, and highly-trained scholars will probably have to specialize in it in future generations in order to understand it.