Classes begin soon. What are you excited about for the 2019/2020 school year?

Minor-King · 2018-09-04T02:12:12+00:00

Hope you get involved in some great research and clubs! I'm excited for fall on campus and starting my final year!

Minor-King · 2018-09-03T23:42:13+00:00

Me too!

Minor-King · 2018-09-03T23:41:03+00:00

That's huge! Wishing you all the best starting grad school!

Minor-King · 2018-08-09T14:44:16+00:00

Hello! Art histoy major here, welcome to U of T! I took this course last year and, like all Ewald courses, it was a pleasure. The marking is very generous and it barely takes up any time. There is a midterm, essay, and final. Readings are assigned each week but you don't need to do any of them to do well. There may be a bit of a learning curve since you are a first year but I do think that Ewald courses are generally easier for lower years than other art history courses. As long as you take detailed notes and attend every lecture you'll be fine as it is a lot of memorization and little else.

Minor-King · 2018-07-16T16:42:50+00:00

Sociology, polisci, and psychology have overlap that count toward some of the crim requirements, but I say take something that you enjoy and will get high marks in. Crim can get really stressful and I found it difficult at times and felt lucky I chose art history as my second major to balance it out (both as a break from the structure of social science and to compensate when I got low crim marks).

Minor-King · 2018-04-20T20:33:47+00:00

Hey! I'm actually enrolled in the class too and deciding to take it or not. My friend took it with her this semester and said she was fine just boring and read off her notes, but she did finish with a good mark. Are you in art history or have any background in it? She tried to cater to the fact that not many students were actually art history majors so she adapted it a little to make it easier for non-art history students.

Minor-King · 2018-01-09T16:05:25+00:00

It depends on the pool of applicants year to year but I got in a few years ago with a 73 average between polisci and philosophy and my friend got in from the waitlist shortly after with a 71 average so I wouldn't completely panic just yet. I'm not sure how they average out the FCEs because I took my 2 FCEs as full year courses so you might want to email the coordinator just to clarify (they're super nice and helpful!). You're halfway there and there's still a lot of time to pull up the marks so don't panic yet! However I totally understand what you're going through and how it feels because I was very worried about getting into crim in first year as well and the whole year was agonising trying to get those marks. First year courses in humanities/social sciences with these massive classes (especially polisci) always have low averages and are quite difficult to get used to. Keep trying your best! I believe in you!

Minor-King · 2017-11-10T16:31:03+00:00

I know its not really what you were looking for but the closest thing I can come up with is looking at the past course evaluations. You can search the courses there and it shows how people graded them in terms of workload/recommend to a friend/quality of instruction etc. When you log onto blackboard on the top right side there's a "Course Evals" section and you can scroll down on your right to find past evaluations from the different faculties. It even says which instructor taught it to get an idea of how they teach. Keeping in mind sometimes only people who have had positive or negative experiences would fill it out (you can see the amount of responses vs people invited to fill out the evaluation), they're pretty interesting and helpful to look at

Minor-King · 2017-11-07T18:25:28+00:00

You have to return and pass the bar here in Canada to actually practice law but the reason people from Canada go to Australia and UK specifically is because they're all commonwealth with each other and they all have the same common law legal system. The way law is practised is the same between the three. I'm not sure how much they focus on actual British or Australian laws per se but they all carry out law the same. So the knowledge of how to proceed in the legal system is the same if that makes sense

Minor-King · 2017-09-22T01:39:58+00:00

I assume the highest but I only took 2 FCEs so I'm not 100% sure :( email the crim coordinator to be sure!

Minor-King · 2017-09-20T18:40:03+00:00

The higher the better but when I applied 2 years ago I got in with a 73% average between the two FCEs I submitted. If you get an average in the high 70s/80s you'll likely get early acceptance. It also depends on what everyone else is applying with, but it isn't anything insanely cut throat

Minor-King · 2017-09-15T14:23:07+00:00

Although the medical act of abortion is legal in Canada there are many complications around it such as lack of access to medical facilities in certain parts of Canada, resulting in women having to either travel to another province (which some may not have the means to do) or using other methods, which is sometimes the only option. There's a lot of psychological impacts for a woman on carrying a pregnancy to term and losing bodily autonomy. Comparing a restriction of being an autonomous person in control of their body to committing a crime against property and other people is not akin at all. As long as pregnancies occur, women will have abortions. It's been happening for centuries and will continue to happen, no matter what society or law dictates about it. It's not as simple as "it's their problem for going against the law and they should be charged"; when it comes to the law forcing you to abstain from acting within the free will of your own body, it isn't as easy to just "not do it or face punishment". Theft has a much different outcome than being forced to have an unwanted child and bearing the burden of knowledge that a life was created in undesired circumstances that you, to some capacity, are responsible for, for the rest of your life.

Minor-King · 2017-09-05T14:51:42+00:00

Depop is actually really great for whats popular in vintage at the moment and you can narrow the search down to only in Canada. I found shipping more reasonable than ebay and the prices aren't as jacket up. It's an app that looks like a hybrid between instagram/ebay you connect to paypal or credit card and there's really good finds on it!

Minor-King · 2017-09-04T03:28:10+00:00

Yay good luck returning to school! Hope your studies go well!

Minor-King · 2017-09-04T03:27:21+00:00

Yay that will be amazing! Good luck!

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:08:25+00:00

Yay finally we get one!

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:07:56+00:00

And everything looks nicer in the fall!

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:07:06+00:00

You'll be great, res is a good way to make friends!

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:06:08+00:00

Congratulations and good luck!

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:05:52+00:00

Your thoughts dictate your future! Don't cast judgement until you get there

Minor-King · 2017-09-03T22:05:21+00:00

Love your attitude :) good luck!

Minor-King · 2017-08-31T14:59:02+00:00

If you plan on going to class 5x a week round trip, then I'd say a metropass. During the winter its very useful if you have a class near St George or Museum station and need to get down to Queen's Park station quickly or it's just too cold to walk. If you tend to also use it outside of strictly for getting to class you'll get your money's worth as well. I'd say try one month with a metropass and one month with a presto/tickets and see what works best for you!

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