i have a little trouble with enrolling my program on Acorn. i want to do linguistics specialist coop but then i just realized the enrolment date for this program had passed. Should I just leave my program blank right now? Can I still get into the related coop courses/workshops in this case? Thanks!
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hey there,
there are a few things going on in this question. it has, as the business people would say, “a lot of moving pieces.” lemme try to address some of them (though i am not, myself, a business person per say. i do rock a pleather briefcase, though):
firstly, if you are not currently in a co-op program at UTSC, you can’t just apply to a co-op POSt via ACORN. you have to apply to co-op as a whole, the same way that at the downtown campus, you have to apply to transfer internally if you want to switch faculties. that application required a supplementary form that was due in April.
if you’re currently not in co-op, you probably wouldn’t be able to get into the associated work-term preparation course (which i assume is what you’re talking about); see 6B.5, since that is taken in your first year of co-op.
as for what you should do in terms of programs now, with course enrolment looming ever closer on the horizon: you should NOT leave it blank. in order to sign up for courses, you’ll need to be in an acceptable combination of subject POSts, i.e. 1 specialist OR 2 majors OR 1 major and 2 minors. if you’re not, ACORN will put up a big STOP sign in the metaphorical road to your course selection, and you will stay parked until you pull a program or two into your back seat for the ride.
what would make the most sense to me, since you’re interested in the linguistics specialist – co-op, is to do sign up for the next-best thing for the time being. the regular linguistics specialist (i say ‘regular’ only to distinguish it from co-op; obviously, i’m not commenting on all the linguists out there, who i’m sure are extraordinary people in their own right) has unlimited enrolment, which means that you can sign up for it after your first year and are guaranteed admission.
to continue the car/road metaphor, unlimited POSts are the cupholder of car accessories; everyone can get one. if you decide to apply to a limited POSt, you should have an unlimited one in your back pocket just in case.
all this is to say: you need to make sure you’re in an appropriate number of programs by your start date for course enrolment, otherwise you will be in big trouble on the day of. and aska doesn’t want that.
drive on, linguist,
aska