Hi there! i wanted to ask about breadth requirements and see if i understood it correctly. a half course = 0.5 in the breadth requirement, right? and for all except br=4 & 5, we need 1.0 fce for the BR—by that i mean for BR=4&5, we can either do 0.5 in 4 and 0.5 in 5, or just 1.0 fce in 4 or 1.0 fce in 5 (one or the other). i hope that made sense. could you confirm for me if this is correct? thank you so much!
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hey there,
this is a valid question! breadth requirements can get confusing.
a half course (which you’d take in one semester, as opposed to one fall/winter year) does equal 0.5 full course equivalents (FCEs). you got that right.
in fact, you do technically have a correct understanding of the whole system. to complete your breadth requirements, you need:
a) 1.0 FCE in 3 of the 5 categories and 0.5 FCEs in the remaining 2
b) 1.0 FCE in 4 of the 5 categories
what i should point out, though, is that it’s not necessarily categories 4 and 5 that you don’t need to complete. you can move your courses around as you see fit! for example, you could take 1.0 FCE in categories 3, 4, and 5, and just 0.5 FCEs in 1 and 2. but if you’re a humanities/social science student who’d like to avoid categories 4 and 5 as much as you can, then it certainly makes more sense for you to take fewer credits in those categories.
i hope this helped! if you need any further clarification, feel free to get back to me or give your registrar’s office a call.
be Boundless,