{"id":12902,"date":"2015-01-13T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12902"},"modified":"2019-08-04T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T23:31:31","slug":"a-cornucopia-of-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12902","title":{"rendered":"a cornucopia of majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Aska,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a student half way through my 3rd year. I&#8217;m currently working towards a double major in Archaeology and Classical Civilizations with a minor in Art History. I&#8217;ve done summer semester for the last 2 years as well in order to keep my workload down to 4 classes\/semester (fall\/winter) and have everything planned on the ROSI degree planner through the end of my degree. The thing is, I really really would rather up my course load and get a triple major, as I really do love all of these subjects equally and each one is beneficial to my career\/ academic aspirations. I&#8217;m just not sure how to go about trying for this. Is this possible at all? Do I petition my registrar? I was hoping you could point me in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much,<\/p>\n<p>~ Tripledown<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m really hoping for a response chock-full of great links and funny gifs.<\/p>\n<p>???????????????<\/p>\n<p>hey there Tripledown,<\/p>\n<p>the faculty of arts and science is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/subject-post-enrolment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pretty explicit about not letting people do more than 2 majors\/specialists<\/a>. however, since they&#8217;re the ones who make the rules, they&#8217;d be the ones who could <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/therulesarewrong.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">make an exception<\/a>, if at all possible. i&#8217;d start off by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/advising\/ofr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calling them<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lionkingplease.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i wouldn&#8217;t get my hopes up, but it&#8217;s always worth it to ask. also, if it&#8217;s just about <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dwaynetherock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">really, really loving<\/a> the programs, you can always take the courses required for an art history major, without actually having the &#8216;major&#8217; designation on your transcript.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>P.S. here&#8217;s one of my favourite gifs, completely complementary, just because you asked so nicely:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theofficebrokengif.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10373\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/theofficebrokengif.gif\" alt=\"the office jim broken gif\" width=\"211\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Aska, I&#8217;m a student half way through my 3rd year. I&#8217;m currently working towards a double major in Archaeology and Classical Civilizations with a minor in Art History. I&#8217;ve done summer semester for the last 2 years as well in order to keep my workload down to 4 classes\/semester (fall\/winter) and have everything planned on the ROSI degree planner through the end of my degree. The thing is, I really really would rather up my course load and get a triple major, as I really do love all of these subjects equally and each one is beneficial to my career\/ academic aspirations. I&#8217;m just not sure how to go about trying for this. Is this possible at all? Do I petition my registrar? I was hoping you could point me in the right direction. Thank you so much, ~ Tripledown P.S. I&#8217;m really hoping for a response chock-full of great links and funny gifs. ??????????????? hey there Tripledown, the faculty of arts and science is pretty explicit about not letting people do more than 2 majors\/specialists. however, since they&#8217;re the ones who make the rules, they&#8217;d be the ones who could make an exception, if at all possible. i&#8217;d start off by calling them and asking. i wouldn&#8217;t get my hopes up, but it&#8217;s always worth it to ask. also, if it&#8217;s just about really, really loving the programs, you can always take the courses required for an art history major, without actually having the &#8216;major&#8217; designation on your transcript. cheers, aska P.S. here&#8217;s one of my favourite gifs, completely complementary, just because you asked so nicely:<\/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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902","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=12902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}