I have a younger sister who got accepted to both Scarborough & St. George campuses (yay her!) for Linguistics. She REALLY wants to take Arabic courses at St. George (& follow in my footsteps lol), but would like to participate in Co-Op at Scarborough since they accepted her & it’s a nice opportunity. She knows she can still take Arabic courses at UTSG if she is at UTSC, but can she select the Near & Middle Eastern Studies as a minor as well? Or can she at least get a Language Citation? Thanks 🙂
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hey there,
according to #10 of the UTSC course calendar, “only UTSC programs may be used to meet degree requirements” at UTSC. so no, your sister can’t enrol in an NMC minor at the St. George campus if she’s enrolled at UTSC. unfortunately, you have to stick to POSts on your own campus, because we live in a SEPARATIST and DIVIDED university.*
HOWEVER. the language citation exists at all three campuses, and if she was willing to take a language citation in Arabic at UTSC, she could do so. the minimum number of courses you need for a language citation is 2.0 FCEs above the introductory level, and UTSC offers enough Arabic courses to make that possible. whoo!
an african studies minor at UTSC is another possibility.
if she really wants to do her Arabic studies at UTSG, continuing education offers a number of arabic language courses, too.
cheers, my multilingual friends,
aska
* i’m joking. imagine if all three campuses were combined into one. just imagine how big that campus would be. oh man.