{"id":6047,"date":"2013-12-04T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:31:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:31:51","slug":"what-have-we-learned-here-we-have-learned-uoft-is-not-sadistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6047","title":{"rendered":"what have we learned here? we have learned uoft is NOT sadistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking Id like to do a biology minor next year but I&#8217;m confused about the second year courses I have to take.?It says: 1 FCE from: BIO220H1; BIO230H1\/BIO255H1; BIO251H1; BIO270H1; BIO271H1; BIO260H1\/HMB265H1.?This means I only have to take 2 half credit courses from those 8 half courses that are listed right??I dropped chemistry so I can&#8217;t take them all. I hope I just have to choose two since BIO220 and others don&#8217;t require chemistry.<\/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 there,<\/p>\n<p>sheesh man, it&#8217;s a minor program. taking them all would be a ridiculous requirement! i mean i know uoft is cruel, but they&#8217;re not <a href=\"http:\/\/data1.whicdn.com\/images\/57436390\/tumblr_mknsxrOJoK1qev0j4o1_500_large.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">insane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>it says right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0that you need 4.0 FCE to complete the program. in ALL FOUR YEARS of your undergrad, you need to complete 4.0 &#8211; that&#8217;s it, that&#8217;s all. no more than that. so they couldn&#8217;t possibly expect you to take all those courses. this is the deal, right:<\/p>\n<p>the required first-year courses are BIO120H1 and BIO130H1. then you pick 1.0 (that is, 2 courses, like you said) of the ones you listed in your question, and then 2.0 FCE&#8217;s out of their third list, which is: EEB202H1, EEB204H1, EEB214H1, EEB215H1); EHJ351H1, EHJ352H1;ENV234H1, ENV334H1; HMB265H1; NUS; PSY397H1 and PSY497H1.<\/p>\n<p>so to sum up: if you&#8217;ve got 4.0 FCE by the time you want to graduate, and 1.0 of them are BIO120 and BIO130, 1.0 of them are from the list you&#8217;ve given, and 2.0 of them are from the list I&#8217;ve given, you fulfilled the requirements for the subject post! easy-peasy! pumpkin squeazy! ham and&#8230;cheesy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>they leave me alone for a long time in this office, <a href=\"http:\/\/collegecandy.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/tumblr_inline_mgoxtl4v991ro2d43.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>happy biologizing,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I was thinking Id like to do a biology minor next year but I&#8217;m confused about the second year courses I have to take.?It says: 1 FCE from: BIO220H1; BIO230H1\/BIO255H1; BIO251H1; BIO270H1; BIO271H1; BIO260H1\/HMB265H1.?This means I only have to take 2 half credit courses from those 8 half courses that are listed right??I dropped chemistry so I can&#8217;t take them all. I hope I just have to choose two since BIO220 and others don&#8217;t require chemistry. Thanks \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, sheesh man, it&#8217;s a minor program. taking them all would be a ridiculous requirement! i mean i know uoft is cruel, but they&#8217;re not insane. it says right here\u00a0that you need 4.0 FCE to complete the program. in ALL FOUR YEARS of your undergrad, you need to complete 4.0 &#8211; that&#8217;s it, that&#8217;s all. no more than that. so they couldn&#8217;t possibly expect you to take all those courses. this is the deal, right: the required first-year courses are BIO120H1 and BIO130H1. then you pick 1.0 (that is, 2 courses, like you said) of the ones you listed in your question, and then 2.0 FCE&#8217;s out of their third list, which is: EEB202H1, EEB204H1, EEB214H1, EEB215H1); EHJ351H1, EHJ352H1;ENV234H1, ENV334H1; HMB265H1; NUS; PSY397H1 and PSY497H1. so to sum up: if you&#8217;ve got 4.0 FCE by the time you want to graduate, and 1.0 of them are BIO120 and BIO130, 1.0 of them are from the list you&#8217;ve given, and 2.0 of them are from the list I&#8217;ve given, you fulfilled the requirements for the subject post! easy-peasy! pumpkin squeazy! ham and&#8230;cheesy&#8230; they leave me alone for a long time in this office, you know. happy biologizing, 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":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047","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=6047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}