• courses,  easy

    Relax. It was a 4 day weekend.

    July 2, 2008

    **************Time Stamp: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:34:54 -0400********************?

    HEY!
    My name is Hannah and i am going into my first year studying commerce in september. I have 2 questions regarding courses and seminars.
    Where can i find out more information about each course (how much reading..tests hard..etc)?
    Where can i find out more information about all these seminars?..I have so many i want to take but don’t know much about any of them.

    **************Time Stamp: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:02:35 -0400*******************?

    HEY!
    I emailed you earlier about the additional information to the courses. I was wondering if you have any information or helpful advice for me regarding GGR107 (environment, food and people) and GGR124 (urbanization). I think i want to take 1 of those 2 but don’t know anything about class sizes..amount of reading and etc.
    ?
    As well, i was thinking of taking either POL103 ( Canada in Comparative Perspective) or Intro to Sociology. Which one is easier and has less work?
    ?
    Thanks alot!

    **************Time Stamp: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:05:53 -0400*****************?

    Hey…im so sorry but i have to pick courses really soon and i am unsure about a few things.
    ?
    I have narrowed my seminar choices to either sport as culture, sport in culture or the anthropology of brands. Which one has less work…easier prof and etc?
    ?
    As well, I am unsure about the geography course “urbanization, contemporary cities and urban life” and SOC101…whic one has less work..easier concepts and etc..because i already have calc..economics and management so i want my elective to be kind of a bird course.
    ?
    If you could answer those 2 questions, it would be GREATLY appreciated!
    Thanks A lot

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  • courses,  easy

    Pretty Bird(course)

    June 11, 2008

    ?Hey,I’m a newly admitted life science student and I would like to? eventually be accepted to a professional faculty, which unfortunately? means I need a minimum GPA of 3.7. With the ridiculous demands of my?science courses, I was hoping to find an easy humanity and an easy? social science where I can slack off (comparatively) yet still achieve?a high mark.

    I do NOT want to write essays. Long calculations don’t faze me but I? find long writing simply cumbersome. Although I realize this is hard? to avoid in university, I’ll be happy in a course as long as there is? minimal extensive writing.

    I was looking at some of the first-year social science seminars and? “You Say You Want an Evolution” actually sounds rather interesting.? However, do you happen to know what kind of work our mark would be? based on? Will it be a good choice for what I want?

    In terms of my humanity, French has always been a strength of mine,? but so far, I haven’t been hearing good things about the French? courses offered at UofT. Is it possible to get a high mark in the? language? French has never been difficult for me, but to be completely? honest, my French teacher for grade 12 was a total hackjob and I’m not? sure whether I will continue to get the same marks come September.

    Help? My registrar was useless.

    Thanks so much,
    (You deserve such massive cred)
    Monica?

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  • courses

    Signing up for courses isn’t like trying to get rid of crabs.

    June 9, 2008

    Dear Aska;
    Alright, I am in an extremely annoying dilemma… I am a first year Life Science student. I plan on taking biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, and VIC112Y1- Puzzles, Discovery and the Human Imagination. I would also like to take the 1st year seminar HUM199H1F – Thought Experiments. This comes up to a total of 5.5 credits in my first year.

    Now I have several ways to go:
    1. Don’t take HUM199…[can I cry?] – I am new to Toronto and I need time to get used to people + city + university + living alone…
    2. Take them all – A LOT of work but I took physics 12U and am really good at math so I think that’ll lower my work quite a lot… still, I am not one of those mark obsessed people, I like getting satisfying marks but also want to have fun with others and actually “live”. Buuuuuuut. I LOVE to learn…so I think even if the going gets tough I’ll take the course…
    3. Take it without getting the credit – I heard something about extra courses where you don’t get a credit and your mark in that course isn’t included. Can I do that with the HUM 199? I don’t care about the mark or credit since I’ll have 5 anyways. (Will I still have to pay for the course then?)

    Sorry for the load of questions but I am going to have to ask another one: I have been looking around and can’t seem to find the price I would have to pay for an additional .5 credit. I believe our tuition covers 5 credit load, but if we want to take more how much would each cost (0.5 in my case)?

    Thanks

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  • courses,  easy,  film

    Wheelcum ta Kanada

    June 2, 2008

    Hi,
    I will be an exchange student during fall/winter session 2008-2009. I want to ask few questions.    First, as an exchange student, can I take Cinema Studies Courses? I heard that they are limited courses, so I cannot enroll in them through ISXO.(Exchange students enroll in all courses though ISXO)

    Second, most Cinema Studies Courses consist of lectures, tutorials and practical work. Can you tell me what exactly practical work is? Do students actually make a movie during that time or watch movies?? Also, do I have to enroll in practical work classes like turitorials?

    Lastly, which class is easy for a beginner?? I love movies but actually I don’t want to MAKE a movie myself. I just want to study movies.

    Thanks! ?

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  • courses,  new college,  registration,  Toronto,  university-college

    Just be happy you have somewhere to live.

    May 26, 2008

    Hello,
    In late March I received my acceptance to UofT; however, I did not get into my first choice college (University
    College). Instead I got into New College. Today (late May) I attended an open house of sorts, and we toured the residence rooms. To say I am not impressed would be an understatement. I have already accepted UofT (obviously) and have sent in my residence reply form. My first question is, is it still possible at this time to transfer into
    University
    College, or am I just going to have to suck it up? Also, I have seen the UC dorms and I like them much better.

    My second question: do languages count as a humanities or social science? I want to go into Pharmacy and one of the pre-requisites is that I have at least one humanities or social science course along with the regular sciences.

    Thanks!

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  • courses,  med school

    Regrets? For Me? Never.

    May 21, 2008

    Hi aska~
    I have a question about posts~ on the calender it says “to obtain standing…no more than six courses may be 100-series’. What will happen if I take more than 6 100-series course? Because now i’m choosing my posts and i took 5 science courses in the first year. But now i totally regret it and I want to study statistics and east asian studies, and each one requires a first year course. If I take those courses I would have taken 7 100-courses….so what should I do? thanks a lot!

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  • courses

    summer school isn’t for the village idiots anymore

    February 14, 2008

    Hey aska, I like your snark and style of response. Hopefully, you’ll find a
    suitable one for my question – Okay, I’m in Gr 12 (can’t wait to get out of
    here) & I recently applied to the Humanities (English) program @ UTSG. However, my real love lies with psychology & the only reason I didn’t choose that was b/c of it’s Calculus requirement. Despite the fact that I actually achieved a 90 avg for 1st semester in which I took Advanced Functions, it was the heaviest amount of stress I’d ever come under. I just don’t want to go through with that again – plus I only got 80 in AdvFunc after so much work, so I decided Calc would just be a nightmare. I also want to keep my avg above 90 for this new semester & that would be extremely difficult with Calc.    Apologies for the background info but I just had to get it out. My real question is – say I get accepted for Humanities & then decide I still wanna major in Psych (Science) 2nd year on, could I get the Calc credit @ summer school after completing high school this year? Would they look down on a summer school credit even though it is an entirely new credit & NOT a make-up course? Focusing on 1 course in the summer would help me achieve a really high mark in
    it so I could use that later on to say, oh yeah, I DO have the Calc req,
    sucker?    (Yes I read the other question re: the same issue with psych & calculus but needed to know about this specifically)?

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  • courses,  Toronto

    a wise one, indeed

    January 25, 2008

    I want to know if i can make an appointment with you to help me pick a course.I came from India last month. I did B.Sc, M.Sc (Hons.)Zoology, B.ed and M.ed (Masters of education) from Panjab University. I will be thankful to you.

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  • admissions,  courses,  enrollment,  keeners,  summer,  Toronto

    tea time is at four pm, not at two

    November 12, 2007

    My name is Habiba Rauf and I am doing my GCE A levels from Pakistan.I want to apply to the university of Toronto. I wanted to ask you a question that can international students join the summer session? If so, then when does it start? and are all the courses available in this session? Kindly reply me asap so that i can proceed with my application.
    Thanks.

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  • courses,  distribution,  english

    some times generic can still be great…the rundown, perhaps?

    August 9, 2007

    If I got an ENG100H1 credit and a generic ENG1*** credit from my AP exams (which
    I did), should I bother taking JEF100, or should I just take a second year Lit
    course? Is there a really huge difference between first and second year English
    courses?
    I ask because now these AP credits count towards my 6 first year course
    maximum, and I still need my science distribution credit. Or if I can take my
    science distribution next year, it would be nice to have a backup course in
    case I decide I want to change my program after first year.

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