{"id":2309,"date":"2010-07-13T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:41:31","slug":"interesting-ways-to-fill-the-breadth-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"interesting ways to fill the breadth requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<br \/>\nI was wondering what some interesting breadth 2 courses are? I am picking my<br \/>\ncourses and I wanted to take something fun.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<br \/>\nVish<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Look no further than the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/course\/fyh-1\" target=\"_blank\">First Year Seminars <\/a>offered this year, guaranteed to fit your breadth requirements, with topics ranging from vampires to Chinese gastronomy. (Though truthfully, those classes probably have more in common than you think.)<\/p>\n<p>These courses go towards your degree, but not a subject PoST, and are labelled in accordance with filling those damned breadth requirements. However, you can only be in your first year of study to take them.<\/p>\n<p>For first years, revel in the awesomeness of courses like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raiders, Traders, and Invaders: the Vikings and Their Descendents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#L0161S\">Using Computers to Fight Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Use Time in Everyday Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dude!<\/p>\n<p>If you are not in first year, you&#8217;ll have to slog through other courses like everybody else. Look at the smaller programs in the colleges, New College, Trinity, Innis, Victoria and Innis (for instance), all of interesting and intriguing ways to fulfill your breadth requirements. But remember, only first and second year courses right now go towards your breadth requirements &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to contact the program office or registrar to see if higher level courses could work.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo, Askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I was wondering what some interesting breadth 2 courses are? I am picking my courses and I wanted to take something fun. Thanks. Vish \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Look no further than the list of First Year Seminars offered this year, guaranteed to fit your breadth requirements, with topics ranging from vampires to Chinese gastronomy. (Though truthfully, those classes probably have more in common than you think.) These courses go towards your degree, but not a subject PoST, and are labelled in accordance with filling those damned breadth requirements. However, you can only be in your first year of study to take them. For first years, revel in the awesomeness of courses like&#8230; Raiders, Traders, and Invaders: the Vikings and Their Descendents Using Computers to Fight Climate Change How We Use Time in Everyday Life Dude! If you are not in first year, you&#8217;ll have to slog through other courses like everybody else. Look at the smaller programs in the colleges, New College, Trinity, Innis, Victoria and Innis (for instance), all of interesting and intriguing ways to fulfill your breadth requirements. But remember, only first and second year courses right now go towards your breadth requirements &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to contact the program office or registrar to see if higher level courses could work. xoxo, Askastudent<\/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":[117,8,6,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choosing","category-colleges","category-courses","category-first-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello, I was wondering what some interesting breadth 2 courses are? 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