{"id":11664,"date":"2014-09-04T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T04:30:02","slug":"course-pickins-over-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=11664","title":{"rendered":"course pickins&#8217; over the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the course selection like for summer section? Can I depend on certain courses (eg, breadth requirement fillers) to be available over the summer?<\/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>here&#8217;s the thing that a lot of incoming students get confused by: there is no such thing as &#8216;breadth requirement courses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>to clarify: there&#8217;s no distinct category of courses that exist just to fulfil breadth requirements, and nothing else.?every course at uoft fills a breadth requirement. capice?<\/p>\n<p>alright, so let&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/elastigirlfrustrated.jpg\">extend the logic<\/a> a little. if every course can fulfil a breadth requirement, then what you&#8217;re asking is whether you can depend on every course to be offered in the summer term. and unfortunately,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kanyeshakinghead.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can&#8217;t<\/a>. the summer term is sort of like an abbreviated version of the fall\/winter term &#8211; only the highlights are repeated.<\/p>\n<p>however, the question you&#8217;re likely trying to get at is, &#8216;can i depend on the courses\u00a0<em>i&#8217;m<\/em> interested in, that\u00a0<em>i&#8217;m<\/em> going to take to fulfil certain breadth requirements, to be offered in the summer?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>and the answer to that is: maybe.<\/p>\n<p>if a course was offered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/timetable\/summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last summer term<\/a>, then it is more likely that it will be offered again this coming summer (that timetable can also give you a pretty good idea of the range of courses that are offered during the summer).<\/p>\n<p>if a course has multiple sections and large lectures\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/timetable\/winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this term<\/a>, then it&#8217;s also more likely that it&#8217;ll be offered in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, you can&#8217;t depend on any courses to be offered for certain. every year, each department decides which courses it&#8217;s going to offer, and until the timetable comes out for each term, there&#8217;s no way to know for certain what they&#8217;ll decide. some courses are a safer bet than others, but there are no guarantees until that summer timetable comes out in late april-ish.<\/p>\n<p>best of luck with your course selection, my friend,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the course selection like for summer section? Can I depend on certain courses (eg, breadth requirement fillers) to be available over the summer? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, here&#8217;s the thing that a lot of incoming students get confused by: there is no such thing as &#8216;breadth requirement courses.&#8217; to clarify: there&#8217;s no distinct category of courses that exist just to fulfil breadth requirements, and nothing else.?every course at uoft fills a breadth requirement. capice? alright, so let&#8217;s extend the logic a little. if every course can fulfil a breadth requirement, then what you&#8217;re asking is whether you can depend on every course to be offered in the summer term. and unfortunately,\u00a0you can&#8217;t. the summer term is sort of like an abbreviated version of the fall\/winter term &#8211; only the highlights are repeated. however, the question you&#8217;re likely trying to get at is, &#8216;can i depend on the courses\u00a0i&#8217;m interested in, that\u00a0i&#8217;m going to take to fulfil certain breadth requirements, to be offered in the summer?&#8217; and the answer to that is: maybe. if a course was offered\u00a0last summer term, then it is more likely that it will be offered again this coming summer (that timetable can also give you a pretty good idea of the range of courses that are offered during the summer). if a course has multiple sections and large lectures\u00a0this term, then it&#8217;s also more likely that it&#8217;ll be offered in the summer. unfortunately, you can&#8217;t depend on any courses to be offered for certain. every year, each department decides which courses it&#8217;s going to offer, and until the timetable comes out for each term, there&#8217;s no way to know for certain what they&#8217;ll decide. some courses are a safer bet than others, but there are no guarantees until that summer timetable comes out in late april-ish. best of luck with your course selection, my friend, 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breadth-requirements","category-summer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664","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=11664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}