Hi,

I was just wondering if you knew when the Fall 2014-Winter 2015 timetable for UTSG is going to be released? It probably sounds kind of impatient to be asking this early, but when the Summer 2014 timetable was released I think one of the pages said something about the Fall schedule being released at the end of March…

Thanks for your help =D

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hey there,

it’s up!

best,

aska

P.S. i initially linked to the course calendar instead of the timetable; i’ve just changed it. i guess I’M the silly pigeon now.

Hi,
Okay I’m going to be honest I’m pretty sure I messed up. I wanted to take?Chinese and you have to go to an interview, but a last minute home
emergency thing happened, I had to skip out on the rest of the day,?including the interview and couldn’t get anywhere near an internet?connection or a keyboard until a good 6 hours later. I emailed the?coordinator and said I was sorry and it was all my fault, but I still want?to be able to take Chinese even if it means next next year, how fucked am I?in terms of, “the coordinator thinks you’re a douche”. I don’t know how to?navigate this situation, I don’t know if this will affect me badly, or if?it will seriously hurt my chance of getting into the class. I’m dumb I?know, but HOW dumb and HOW much trouble am I in. I really needed this class?for my EAS major and now I’m panicked and dejected and I’m afraid I should?never go near the department again and learn Chinese from the internet.
– please i need some advice/help

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hey there,

ok, firstly – calm down. e-mailing the coordinator was the best possible thing you could do. i don’t know how the coordinator will handle the situation, and i don’t know enough about the program to even begin to speculate, so i’m not going to. the one solid piece of information i could find about these interviews is this:

“Those who are enrolled for a course or waitlist on ROSI who fail to follow the instructions and attend the interview/placement test for their course (if applicable) will be automatically removed by the department. Alternative interview or test times are not available.”

however, don’t take that as gospel. if the coordinator e-mails you back, you may be able to work something out. if not, hey, there’s always the next enrolment period.

i hope it works out,

aska

Hi, there;

There is a course I would really, really like to get into but I was number 2 and then 1?on the waiting list for over a month, and have now been removed. I’ve spoken to the?instructor, who says that she wouldn’t mind if I joined the course at all. Is there some?way to enrol, now that I have the instructor’s permission? Is there something for her to?sign, or something like that?

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Hey there!

Your choices:

So at this point in time, you have to basically go on ROSI every five minutes and check out the registration for the class.

If there’s a spot, snatch it.

Aside from that… well, the registrar’s office can only put you on a waitlist (which is now irrelevant), so the next stop would be the department where maaaaybe they’ll help you get into the class somehow. As for as I know, there’s not quite a form so much as there’s a lot of sighing and grunting and eventual relenting.

But for the most part, the only thing that would really be barring you from the course is, well, fire hazards! Or space issues. Whatever.

Like there LITERALLY isn’t room in the class for you. As in if your class is in one of those unfortunate classrooms with x number of individualized desks and the department kindly made you number 41 out of 40, there might not be a spot for you.

And then if that doesn’t work, there’s always petitioning, but if this course is just something that you would “really, really like” as opposed to something you need because you’re graduating, I don’t think that’ll help.

out of other options,
aska

Hello,

So I signed up for my classes as successfully as I could. All of them are lectures. What is the difference between lecture and tutorial? And should I change all my classes to tutorials if that’s better? Also, I have heard that signing up for both is mandatory sometimes. Is that true? If so, how do I know if it is for that class?

Thanks!
Newbie

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Newbie,

A lecture is the typical way of going about classes at UofT. These can be classes as big as 1800ish (whatever the capacity of Con Hall is), or as small as 40 or so. These kinds of classes involve a professor or lecturer talking at you and, occasionally, asking questions.

A tutorial on the other hand is a lot more intimate and hands on. Those classes are usually around 20 people or less — or, at least, they SHOULD be, and if there are more people than that, then that’s just friggin annoying. Tutorials will have you really discussing what you learned in lecture for more courses, or say if you’re in a language course, doing a lot of practice work.

Also, your classes are almost always lectures (unless they’re seminars), but not every lecture comes with a tutorial.

Here’s an older post dealing with the same stuff if you need more explanation!

Now the rule of thumb is yes, the lecture and tutorial are necessary. Unless otherwise indicated, they are always necessary.

Always.

Cheers!

aska

Hello!

I’m a freshman, at the bottom of the food chain and I have a question about tutorials and practicals. Is it mandatory to take practicals from all the courses I take?

I’m taking:
bio130h1 bio120h1
chm138h1 chm139h1
mat135h1
psy100h1
phy131h1 phy132h1

I took all the possible tutorials that I can. But there weren’t any tutorials on ROSI for psy for example. If it’s mandatory to take practical is it ok if I take a pra for one semester and don’t for the other?

Thank you for your help
Damra

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Damra,

Unless otherwise indicated, your practicals are mandatory. So take a look at the timetable yourself and check for all those courses to see if there’s some sort of note stating that they’re optional.

Basically, the easiest thing to do to know if you need to take a practical or tutorial is look at the listing in the timetable and check out the sections. For example, if you look at CHM138H, you’ll see that it has a bunch of different lecture sections, practical sections, and tutorial sections.

Logically, you need to pick one of each.

So if the course offers a practical or tutorial, just assume that it’s mandatory unless the opposite is otherwise stated.

However, sometimes courses just don’t have tutorials. PSY100H is just a lecture, for example.

Another thing you can do is look at the calendar. Beside the course title will be something that says how many hours are allotted to lectures, tutorials, practicals or seminars for a course.

So if we look at CHM138H again which says —

CHM138H1????Introductory Organic Chemistry I[36L/12T/18P]

— then we can see that in those 12 weeks of class, you’ll spend 36 hours in lecture, 12 hours in tutorial, and 18 hours in practicals.

Just note that sometimes, however, there are some courses that make you sign up for your tutorials in class on the first day rather than on ROSI, so do make sure you DON’T skip your first week. Sure, all they do is hand out the syllabi and drone out what you’re perfectly capable of reading on your own, but you never know what you might miss out on.

tl;dr = unless your prof says it’s okay, you bet your ass that practical or tutorial is mandatory.

Cheers!

aska

Also, I don’t understand your last question but hopefully this spiel of you-don’t-have-choices has clarified things enough.

Cheers!

aska