{"id":25817,"date":"2020-06-06T18:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25817"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T22:25:19","slug":"do-i-have-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25817","title":{"rendered":"ECO102 is that course for you, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I took ECO102 in my first year and did LWD as I was unsure about University policies at the time&#8230; For my second year I was doing part-time job and did ECO102 but got a 50%. I am thinking of doing economics as a major as I am not much of a fan of others except for politics and geography. I am doing ECO102 but realize doing MAT235 with this course is a bit much for me, I dropped ECO102 before the drop date. Am I now allowed to not take ECO102 again? Do you have answers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hey,<\/p>\n<p>to my understanding, you should be able to take ECO102 again, yes! you meet all the necessary criteria in <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.calendar.utoronto.ca\/course-enrolment\">the rules and regulations<\/a> for retaking a course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you obtained credit for ECO102 only once (when you got 50%)<\/li>\n<li>AND you need to achieve a <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.calendar.utoronto.ca\/economics-major-arts-program-asmaj1478\">minimum mark in ECO102 for entry into the economics major\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>if you do take ECO102 again, it may be important to note that you won&#8217;t receive a record on your transcript for it beyond the notation &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fas.calendar.utoronto.ca\/course-enrolment\">EXT.<\/a>&#8221; in other words, the course will be counted as an extra course: the course won&#8217;t be counted towards your <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.artsci.utoronto.ca\/Degree_Requirements_(H.B.A.,_H.B.Sc.,_BCom).html\">20 credits required to graduate,<\/a> and the final grade will not make it to your permanent academic record\/will not be calculated into your CGPA.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;re ever unsure about uNiVeRsiTy PoLiCieS again, feel free to reach out to me or contact your<a href=\"https:\/\/future.utoronto.ca\/current-students\/registrars\/\"> friendly ol&#8217; registrar&#8217;s office.<\/a>\u00a0i hope this helped and that you have a solid saturday night!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/J2B9kuscUYg6I\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I took ECO102 in my first year and did LWD as I was unsure about University policies at the time&#8230; For my second year I was doing part-time job and did ECO102 but got a 50%. I am thinking of doing economics as a major as I am not much of a fan of others except for politics and geography. I am doing ECO102 but realize doing MAT235 with this course is a bit much for me, I dropped ECO102 before the drop date. Am I now allowed to not take ECO102 again? Do you have answers? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey, to my understanding, you should be able to take ECO102 again, yes! you meet all the necessary criteria in the rules and regulations for retaking a course: you obtained credit for ECO102 only once (when you got 50%) AND you need to achieve a minimum mark in ECO102 for entry into the economics major\u00a0 if you do take ECO102 again, it may be important to note that you won&#8217;t receive a record on your transcript for it beyond the notation &#8220;EXT.&#8221; in other words, the course will be counted as an extra course: the course won&#8217;t be counted towards your 20 credits required to graduate, and the final grade will not make it to your permanent academic record\/will not be calculated into your CGPA. if you&#8217;re ever unsure about uNiVeRsiTy PoLiCieS again, feel free to reach out to me or contact your friendly ol&#8217; registrar&#8217;s office.\u00a0i hope this helped and that you have a solid saturday night! be Boundless, aska &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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":[100,272,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-extra-courses","category-repeating-course"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817","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=25817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}