{"id":5062,"date":"2013-05-28T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:53:13","slug":"from-science-to-science-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5062","title":{"rendered":"from science to science to&#8230; science!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey I was just wondering, if I want to switch into a different program?second year, so if I were to switch from Psychology in first year to Life?Sciences in second year, how does that procedure work? Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n<p>?????????<\/p>\n<p>Howdy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;yeah I&#8217;m never opening with howdy again lol.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, how things work at this lovely university is that in first year, you start off in a <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.utoronto.ca\/learning\/programs-of-study\/utsg\" target=\"_blank\">stream<\/a>. You can be in Humanities, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, blah blah blah. There&#8217;s quite a few, but they&#8217;re veeeery general. Next, you take a whole load of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/index.html#\" target=\"_blank\">100-level intro courses<\/a> to things that interest you\/are relevant to your life choices! You can, for the most part, take whatever you want &#8212; assuming you have the prerequisites needed for them.<\/p>\n<p>And then after this first year of testing the water, you come down with the classic case of <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?cat=51\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;what the actual eff are Subject POSts?&#8221;<\/a> confusion, a common problem that can be remedied by attending your college&#8217;s little seminar-y thing offered around March about POSts.<\/p>\n<p>But in short, they&#8217;re your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/subject-post-enrolment\" target=\"_blank\">programs of study<\/a>. At that point, after taking whatever 100-level bio is offered and meeting the program requirement, you can enter the bio program. Or the psychology. Or bioethics. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>tl;dr = you don&#8217;t have to &#8220;transfer&#8221; from &#8220;psychology&#8221; to &#8220;life sciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Really, you&#8217;re probably starting off here in some science-y thing, you&#8217;ll take your courses, and then at the end of first year, you enrol in the program you want and throw away any unwanted dreams about psych.<\/p>\n<p>Make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey I was just wondering, if I want to switch into a different program?second year, so if I were to switch from Psychology in first year to Life?Sciences in second year, how does that procedure work? Thanks in advance! ????????? Howdy! &#8230;yeah I&#8217;m never opening with howdy again lol. Anyway, how things work at this lovely university is that in first year, you start off in a stream. You can be in Humanities, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, blah blah blah. There&#8217;s quite a few, but they&#8217;re veeeery general. Next, you take a whole load of 100-level intro courses to things that interest you\/are relevant to your life choices! You can, for the most part, take whatever you want &#8212; assuming you have the prerequisites needed for them. And then after this first year of testing the water, you come down with the classic case of &#8220;what the actual eff are Subject POSts?&#8221; confusion, a common problem that can be remedied by attending your college&#8217;s little seminar-y thing offered around March about POSts. But in short, they&#8217;re your programs of study. At that point, after taking whatever 100-level bio is offered and meeting the program requirement, you can enter the bio program. Or the psychology. Or bioethics. Whatever. tl;dr = you don&#8217;t have to &#8220;transfer&#8221; from &#8220;psychology&#8221; to &#8220;life sciences.&#8221; Really, you&#8217;re probably starting off here in some science-y thing, you&#8217;ll take your courses, and then at the end of first year, you enrol in the program you want and throw away any unwanted dreams about psych. Make sense? Cheers! 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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","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=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}