{"id":10428,"date":"2014-07-28T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2019-08-07T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T16:49:01","slug":"big-courses-and-seminars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=10428","title":{"rendered":"BIG courses and seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for answering my last question but I still have just one more \ud83d\ude42 Are you able to take a BIG idea course (for example, BIG 102Y1) in second year? I would need it in order to fufill my breadth requirements because I have already chosen my 5 courses for this year. Also, would you have less of a chance of getting into the course if you are in second year as oppose to first? Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n<p>Are you able to take 199&#8217;s in second year? I am soooo worried about completing my breadth requirements but I don&#8217;t have room for any seminar&#8217;s in my timetable<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_big.htm#courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BIG<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/199299398399Big_Ideas_%28Faculty_of_Arts_&amp;_Science_Programs%29.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">199<\/a>\u00a0seminars are restricted to first year students. however, i&#8217;m not really sure what you&#8217;re worried about, because breadth requirements don&#8217;t have to be seminar courses<a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/whatdan.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">??<\/a><\/p>\n<p>the breadth requirements are just 5 categories of content &#8211; throughout your degree, you need to take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/Degree_Requirements_(H.B.A.,_H.B.Sc.,_BCom).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">certain number of credits in each of the categories<\/a>. every class in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science fulfils at least one category. for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_phy.htm#PHY131H1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHY131H1<\/a>, Intro. to Physics I, fulfils the 5th breadth category, &#8220;The Physical and Mathematical Universes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>you know, because it&#8217;s about the physical and mathematical universes.<\/p>\n<p>i hope that made sense, friend.<\/p>\n<p>good luck with your enrolment!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for answering my last question but I still have just one more \ud83d\ude42 Are you able to take a BIG idea course (for example, BIG 102Y1) in second year? I would need it in order to fufill my breadth requirements because I have already chosen my 5 courses for this year. Also, would you have less of a chance of getting into the course if you are in second year as oppose to first? Thanks in advance! Are you able to take 199&#8217;s in second year? I am soooo worried about completing my breadth requirements but I don&#8217;t have room for any seminar&#8217;s in my timetable \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, unfortunately, BIG and 199\u00a0seminars are restricted to first year students. however, i&#8217;m not really sure what you&#8217;re worried about, because breadth requirements don&#8217;t have to be seminar courses?? the breadth requirements are just 5 categories of content &#8211; throughout your degree, you need to take a certain number of credits in each of the categories. every class in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science fulfils at least one category. for example, PHY131H1, Intro. to Physics I, fulfils the 5th breadth category, &#8220;The Physical and Mathematical Universes.&#8221; you know, because it&#8217;s about the physical and mathematical universes. i hope that made sense, friend. good luck with your enrolment! aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breadth-requirements","category-courses","category-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}