{"id":5505,"date":"2013-09-05T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2019-08-18T03:35:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:35:53","slug":"a-surplus-of-subject-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5505","title":{"rendered":"a surplus of subject posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I was just wondering if you can claim a specialist, major and minor? Also, what is the rule about overlapping courses for the specialist and major, as in, what percentage of courses must be different?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hey hey<\/p>\n<p>You can certainly claim a specialist, a major, and a minor &#8212; that is, of course, assuming you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/sep\/04\/fifty-shades-grey-hunnam-johnson-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taste for masochism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the rule is no different from when you have a double major going on or a major and two minors. For the entirety of your degree, you need to have <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12.0 distinct credits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or if we have to work in percentages, 40% may overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I was just wondering if you can claim a specialist, major and minor? Also, what is the rule about overlapping courses for the specialist and major, as in, what percentage of courses must be different? Thanks! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey hey You can certainly claim a specialist, a major, and a minor &#8212; that is, of course, assuming you have a taste for masochism. That being said, the rule is no different from when you have a double major going on or a major and two minors. For the entirety of your degree, you need to have 12.0 distinct credits. Or if we have to work in percentages, 40% may overlap. 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":[223,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-distinct-credits","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi, I was just wondering if you can claim a specialist, major and minor? Also, what is the rule about overlapping courses for the specialist and major, as in, what percentage of courses must be different? 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