{"id":394,"date":"2006-11-17T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=394"},"modified":"2006-11-17T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T14:54:55","slug":"specialists-and-majors-can-this-marriage-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"specialists and majors &#8211; can this marriage be saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>quick question:<br \/>\nis there a big difference between double major and double specialist?<br \/>\ncan i specialize in one area, and major in another<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>quick answer:<br \/>\nyou can, but nobody would recommend it. essentially, a student requires 20 full year credits to graduate. 3 of these credits need to be distribution credits in social science, science and humanities. specialists range from 10 and above credits while majors usually fall into the 6 to 9 range. if you make your credit count work. this website explains this in detail.<br \/>\nthe only problem is that you really can&#8217;t screw up with what classes you take, which most university students aren&#8217;t able to do. (especially askastudent.) you can&#8217;t take cool electives involving aboriginal studies, but you can&#8217;t really take a wrong turn.<br \/>\nalso &#8211; you may have to take a fifth year to fit everything in. you have been warned.<br \/>\ncheers, askastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quick question: is there a big difference between double major and double specialist? can i specialize in one area, and major in another<\/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":[125,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-time","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}