{"id":26449,"date":"2021-01-12T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26449"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:25:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T01:25:13","slug":"i-too-avoid-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26449","title":{"rendered":"i, too, avoid math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! I&#8217;m currently taking psy100 to fulfill half of the science breadth requirement but honestly I am not a science student and was wondering if you had any courses you would recommend that will still fill the requirement but is less science\/math heavy. Thanks! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>you didn&#8217;t specify what campus you go to, but i&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;re a utm student because that&#8217;s the only campus with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/academic-support\/distribution-requirements#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20as,credits%20required%20for%20your%20degree.\">science breadth requirement<\/a>. i could be wrong, though, because it looks like utm is the only campus still referring to their breadth requirements as distribution requirements.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s hard for me to recommend courses for this breadth requirement at utm, because my personal experience is limited to st. george. but from my experience and from what i&#8217;ve heard from my friends, beginner astronomy courses are great for breadth requirements because they don&#8217;t require a ton of math and are mostly memorization. obviously that&#8217;ll vary based on professors, so don&#8217;t take my word as a guarantee! geology courses might also be good for you, since i believe they won&#8217;t be as math-heavy as something like physics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/XyOrJljDNBEpa\/giphy.gif\" width=\"399\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/academic-support\/distribution-requirements#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%20that%20as,credits%20required%20for%20your%20degree.\">this utm page<\/a> recommends some science distribution requirement courses that generally look like solid options to me. you might try one of the anthropology options\u2014&#8221;Fantasies, Hoaxes and Misrepresentations of the Ancient World&#8221; looks fun\u2014since anthropology is often offered by the faculty of arts at other universities.<\/p>\n<p>to sum all this up, in order, i think your best options by subject are anthropology, astronomy, and then geology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/mPxtCNTbEsTuZecKLN\/giphy.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t know about recommending specific courses, though, since i haven&#8217;t taken any at utm. if you know any more advanced students at your campus that you can ask for specific course recommendations, do that! most people at u of t are happy to help younger students and answer quick questions.<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! I&#8217;m currently taking psy100 to fulfill half of the science breadth requirement but honestly I am not a science student and was wondering if you had any courses you would recommend that will still fill the requirement but is less science\/math heavy. Thanks! \ud83d\ude42 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, you didn&#8217;t specify what campus you go to, but i&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;re a utm student because that&#8217;s the only campus with a science breadth requirement. i could be wrong, though, because it looks like utm is the only campus still referring to their breadth requirements as distribution requirements. it&#8217;s hard for me to recommend courses for this breadth requirement at utm, because my personal experience is limited to st. george. but from my experience and from what i&#8217;ve heard from my friends, beginner astronomy courses are great for breadth requirements because they don&#8217;t require a ton of math and are mostly memorization. obviously that&#8217;ll vary based on professors, so don&#8217;t take my word as a guarantee! geology courses might also be good for you, since i believe they won&#8217;t be as math-heavy as something like physics. this utm page recommends some science distribution requirement courses that generally look like solid options to me. you might try one of the anthropology options\u2014&#8221;Fantasies, Hoaxes and Misrepresentations of the Ancient World&#8221; looks fun\u2014since anthropology is often offered by the faculty of arts at other universities. to sum all this up, in order, i think your best options by subject are anthropology, astronomy, and then geology. i don&#8217;t know about recommending specific courses, though, since i haven&#8217;t taken any at utm. if you know any more advanced students at your campus that you can ask for specific course recommendations, do that! most people at u of t are happy to help younger students and answer quick questions. be Boundless, 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":[162,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breadth-requirements","category-utm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26449","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=26449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}