{"id":2320,"date":"2010-07-16T13:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:56:49","slug":"poke-your-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=2320","title":{"rendered":"poke your professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m considering living outside of toronto this fall and i was wondering if U of T offered<br \/>\nonline courses? Or an alternative such as online courses through other campuses or<br \/>\nschools that allow credit transfer.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;re thinking about doing U of T long-distance, eh girlfriend? Unfortunately I&#8217;ve checked out the school&#8217;s options, and other than some <a href=\"http:\/\/lecturecast.utsc.utoronto.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;web option&#8221; online courses offered through UTSC<\/a>, you&#8217;ve got to do something in person to fulfill the credit. (And even though UTSC has taped lectures, they force you to write the test and exams in person.)<\/p>\n<p>Have you thought about doing an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/course\/ies\" target=\"_blank\"> independent study<\/a> for a class? You&#8217;ll have to put in a little face time every now and then with your professor, but this hands off approach lets you build your own syllabus and assignments. It might be your best option short of transferring to another school, and battling it out with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/tc\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer Credit Office<\/a> to make your credits work.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re thinking, I&#8217;d strongly recommend booking an appointment with your college registrar to make sure everything will correspond properly. Let me know what happens!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo, Askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m considering living outside of toronto this fall and i was wondering if U of T offered online courses? Or an alternative such as online courses through other campuses or schools that allow credit transfer. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 So you&#8217;re thinking about doing U of T long-distance, eh girlfriend? Unfortunately I&#8217;ve checked out the school&#8217;s options, and other than some &#8220;web option&#8221; online courses offered through UTSC, you&#8217;ve got to do something in person to fulfill the credit. (And even though UTSC has taped lectures, they force you to write the test and exams in person.) Have you thought about doing an independent study for a class? You&#8217;ll have to put in a little face time every now and then with your professor, but this hands off approach lets you build your own syllabus and assignments. It might be your best option short of transferring to another school, and battling it out with the Transfer Credit Office to make your credits work. If that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re thinking, I&#8217;d strongly recommend booking an appointment with your college registrar to make sure everything will correspond properly. Let me know what happens! 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":[6,65,125,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-other-schools-boo","category-part-time","category-switching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","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=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}