Hi aska,
When a subject post states a list of first year courses, second year courses, etc., do they actually mean you had to have taken those courses in first year? If I enter the Cognitive Science science major in third year, and complete all their “First Year” courses in third and fourth year, can they kick me out for rushing everything at the end?
cheers, hope you’re enjoying/enjoyed the long weekend!
<3
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hey there,
thanks, friend! awfully nice of you to say. i spent it working too much and sleeping too little, but i appreciate the sentiment.
to your question: enrolling in a major all depends on fulfilling the prerequisites for that major. some majors can be enrolled in on rosi without any extra work or application needed – these are called type 1 subject posts. others need a bit more preparation than that, and they are type 2 or 3 subject posts. both the arts and science versions of the cognitive science major are type 1, so yeah, you can do the courses whenever you want, as long as all the requirements are finished by graduation time. here, it states explicitly that the first-year courses “may be taken as a corequisite in Year 2” for the science major, so i’d say you’re all good.
keep in mind that it’s in your best interest to follow the schedule they’ve set out for you – it’s tough to do the requirements all at once, especially because you need a certain number of upper-year courses that may have the lower-year courses as prerequisites, etc. etc. however, it is ultimately up to you to figure out how you’re going to meet the requirements.
good luck with it xoxo,
aska