{"id":6254,"date":"2014-01-14T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6254"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:03:55","slug":"majorminor-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6254","title":{"rendered":"you&#8217;ve got the beeeeest of both worlds, mix it all together and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a second year student majoring in Bioethics and 2 minors in Biology and Physiology. I know that Bioethics is a arts program, while my minor&#8217;s are in science. I was wondering if I would graduate with a B.A, or BSc, or if I had the choice to choose? I&#8217;m also kind of confused about the 12.0 different courses rule, how does that apply to my minors since there is quite a bit of overlap between them.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!<\/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>i&#8217;d recommend reading <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> post to understand the 12.0 distinct credits rule. basically, 8.0 of your credits in your degree can overlap &#8211; so between your minors and major, there can only be an overlap of 8.0, i.e. 12.0 credits must each qualify as a requirement for only one of your programs (but that post explains it better than i do so def read that). as for your degree, you would get to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/Degree_Requirements_(H.B.A.,_H.B.Sc.,_BCom).html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">choose<\/a>, which is kind of a super awesome thing that not a lot of people get to do. so CHOOSE WISELY (or just flip a coin lol that&#8217;ll work too).<\/p>\n<p>best,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m a second year student majoring in Bioethics and 2 minors in Biology and Physiology. I know that Bioethics is a arts program, while my minor&#8217;s are in science. I was wondering if I would graduate with a B.A, or BSc, or if I had the choice to choose? I&#8217;m also kind of confused about the 12.0 different courses rule, how does that apply to my minors since there is quite a bit of overlap between them. Thanks in advance! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i&#8217;d recommend reading this post to understand the 12.0 distinct credits rule. basically, 8.0 of your credits in your degree can overlap &#8211; so between your minors and major, there can only be an overlap of 8.0, i.e. 12.0 credits must each qualify as a requirement for only one of your programs (but that post explains it better than i do so def read that). as for your degree, you would get to choose, which is kind of a super awesome thing that not a lot of people get to do. so CHOOSE WISELY (or just flip a coin lol that&#8217;ll work too). best, 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":[223,119,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-distinct-credits","category-graduation","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}