Are 6 Courses Per Yr Bad?

[lisaz]

Im Doing Mat135 Chm138 Bio150 Eco100 Ast101 Inx199

I Donno If I Can Make It...
I Dont Wanna Drop One Of Them
So...i Wanna Know If It Will Be Hard..that Hard?

Btw..anyone Knows About Victoria College Has A "small Class" Requirement? U Of T....its About 199 Courses..
Cuz I Dont Like Inx199...
But I Think...i Should Take One :(

[Legend24]

6 courses per year is bad (assuming you're not working FT or playing competitive sports). You should be taking a normal course load of 5 classes per semester, or 10 per year. With 6 you're just barely considered a FT student. If you drop down to 5 courses per year, you'll be a PT student.

[HBP]

6 courses per year is bad (assuming you're not working FT or playing competitive sports). You should be taking a normal course load of 5 classes per semester, or 10 per year. With 6 you're just barely considered a FT student. If you drop down to 5 courses per year, you'll be a PT student.

I believe she means per semester.

You can't take AST101, it's got a science student exclusion. You should read up on these things before signing up for courses. 6 courses is not impossible... but what's the rush? Why not give yourself time to adjust to the new university setting, and in your case the new country and issues you'll face with that. Take 5, take it easy, take summer school if you want, take 6 in 2nd year.

[Code of Conduct]

6 isn't bad. I just finished my winter semester with 6 and I worked 25hr/week and did extracurriculars. As long as you're effecient and effective (i.e. good planning/work ethic), it's easy. Only thing to be mindful of is exam season when it all comes at you at once.

[B0000rt]

I did 6 per semester for four years.

It's not bad when you have 2-3 mickey mouse courses, but one semester I had only 2 days of classes, Tuesdays and Thursdays, it was hell, 8am to 9pm or so on campus.

If AST101 is anything like the York variant, it's pretty much a bird course. ECO100, assuming this is Macro or Micro, should be bird also.

Googling MAT135, it's Calc 1, that should be straightforward Highschool review.

INX199 seems cool and really philosophical, read Essays :/

[xOnic_]

ECO100 isn't much of a bird course from what I hear. MAT135 can be really easy if you're a math person well I never opened the textbook - the first part is review and second part consists of integration, series and sequences, and differential equations. However, I should mention that MAT135 is getting harder ever since they hired Stewart (McMaster Prof who wrote the textbook).

As always I think you should also take courses keeping in mind what POSt you want to get into or professional programs. For instance, nursing requires 1 social science (economics in your case) and 1 humanities (INX199). You have the requirement to do an econ major if you wanted to. Now, for life science POSt, it might become tricky here since you aren't taking physics which is require for a lot of specialist programs, but no worries if you aren't interested in a specialist. Neuroscience requires psychology. If you wanted to go into optometry, you should look into their requirement and start getting some of them down - english, psychology, physics, etc. Global Health (POSt) requires geography or anthro, and the list goes on. Hopefully you get the point by now.

I wouldn't recommend having 6 full year course equivalents for first year simply because its first year.

[cq358]

Try limit the maximum core "harder" course to 4. You might worry about conflict during mid-terms. Imagine you need to do 4 midterm in 1 day. However, since you are doing your first year, schedule should the same with everybody, I think you will be ok. I got a friend who did 9 courses in 1 semester doing 3rd/4th year course and still graduated with a 88% avg. I remember when he went to his program chair trying to add those 9 courses the prof was LAUGHING flat out..and asking him, er... you sure you can handle that.?

[MS_Project]

I don't know how your University works...But I feel that 6 courses per year is too little.

Most University students would take about 5 courses per semester on average. So that would be 10 courses per year (fall and winter)

Do whats best for you as i don't know much about you. Some students can handle 8 courses per SEMESTER and some could handle only 3 or 4.

Whether those courses are hard or not, it depends on the professor & your study habits. The more effort you put the easier it gets.

[AdRiAn YuAn]

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[lisaz]

ECO100 isn't much of a bird course from what I hear. MAT135 can be really easy if you're a math person well I never opened the textbook - the first part is review and second part consists of integration, series and sequences, and differential equations. However, I should mention that MAT135 is getting harder ever since they hired Stewart (McMaster Prof who wrote the textbook).

As always I think you should also take courses keeping in mind what POSt you want to get into or professional programs. For instance, nursing requires 1 social science (economics in your case) and 1 humanities (INX199). You have the requirement to do an econ major if you wanted to. Now, for life science POSt, it might become tricky here since you aren't taking physics which is require for a lot of specialist programs, but no worries if you aren't interested in a specialist. Neuroscience requires psychology. If you wanted to go into optometry, you should look into their requirement and start getting some of them down - english, psychology, physics, etc. Global Health (POSt) requires geography or anthro, and the list goes on. Hopefully you get the point by now.

I wouldn't recommend having 6 full year course equivalents for first year simply because its first year.

ACTUALLY i will do 6 courses first semester and 5 courses the next semester
cuz i have transfer credit for CHM139

YES..I think i will take environmental specialist..
cuz i heard graduate school requires specialist only..is that true?
cuz i wanna do double major environmental and eco..
but i still wanna go to graduate school in the future

[adehbone]

I would find it very surprising if UofT allows you to take 6 courses for your very first semester. The transition of first year is hard enough, and to take an already tough workload that you want to add-on Intro Economics will not be easy.

While some people on this site, like to say introductory economics is easy for them when they take it as engineer/math/science students in 3rd/4th year. For most first years they struggle with the work and courseload, especially if you have not taken university calculus or algebra courses yet.

There should be an option to take such a course in first year summer, if you really want to pursue a double major, but to take 6 courses in your first term is very tough feat.

Also if you want grad school, remember your GPA is key, and UofT life science is no joke. You may want to get used to the course load, before adding on courses.

[AdRiAn YuAn]

well, I went to the course selection workshop last month, and their recommendation is having 4 credits in your 1st yr...

[lisaz]

well, I went to the course selection workshop last month, and their recommendation is having 4 credits in your 1st yr...

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[HBP]

well, I went to the course selection workshop last month, and their recommendation is having 4 credits in your 1st yr...

This is stupid, don't do this. Many professional schools offer significant advantages to having a full course-load (5Y/10H or any combination). Having this full courseload is manageable, just don't waste your time.

[AdRiAn YuAn]

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womeiyoudajini....

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[DeltasInTheSky]

I find five too much, but that's just me.

[infinite.chaoz]

try to get bio150 and chm138 practical to alternate, that should make things less confusing.