{"id":17081,"date":"2016-06-06T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=17081"},"modified":"2019-07-20T20:42:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:42:02","slug":"you-get-an-honours-and-you-get-an-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=17081","title":{"rendered":"YOU get an honours, and YOU get an honours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey\u00a0 Aska,<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0 Rosi my degree is labelled as &#8220;Honors BSc. Psychology&#8221;, does the honors part mean\u00a0 I have to complete an undergrad thesis to get my degree? I have looked through the degree explorer and it doesn&#8217;t say anything about undergrad thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/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>no, that\u2019s not what it means. it\u2019s just one more of those weird anachronisms that infests uoft\u2019s very walls. basically, before 1992, students had the option to pursue a three-year degree (Bachelor\u2019s) or a four-year degree (Honours). the three-year degree got eliminated and now the only option is the \u201cHonours\u201d four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>the only people in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science who graduate <em>without<\/em> Honours are those who request to graduate regardless of having a CGPA under a 1.85 (either a B.Sc. or a B.A.), those who are finishing a 3-year degree that began before 1992 (see &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.artsci.utoronto.ca\/Degree_Requirements_(H.B.A.,_H.B.Sc.,_BCom).html\">Discontinued Degrees and Upgrading<\/a>&#8216;), and Rotman students, who graduate with a B.Comm.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey\u00a0 Aska, On\u00a0 Rosi my degree is labelled as &#8220;Honors BSc. Psychology&#8221;, does the honors part mean\u00a0 I have to complete an undergrad thesis to get my degree? I have looked through the degree explorer and it doesn&#8217;t say anything about undergrad thesis. Thanks \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, no, that\u2019s not what it means. it\u2019s just one more of those weird anachronisms that infests uoft\u2019s very walls. basically, before 1992, students had the option to pursue a three-year degree (Bachelor\u2019s) or a four-year degree (Honours). the three-year degree got eliminated and now the only option is the \u201cHonours\u201d four-year degree. the only people in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science who graduate without Honours are those who request to graduate regardless of having a CGPA under a 1.85 (either a B.Sc. or a B.A.), those who are finishing a 3-year degree that began before 1992 (see &#8216;Discontinued Degrees and Upgrading&#8216;), and Rotman students, who graduate with a B.Comm. Best, 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":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-degree-requirements"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081","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=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}