Bad idea? Good idea? Your thoughts.

I know that the marks are more important in third and fourth years, especially when you're going for your Masters (as my mom tells me).

The funny thing is, the pre-requisite for the 3rd year courses I'm taking is a fourth year course. Why, oh why would the course skip a whole year level? Confusing.

By the way, they are 3rd yr linguistics courses (if anyone has taken any).

Will these courses be too difficult for a mere second year?

If anybody has an insight, it would be excellent.

thanks y'all

3rd and 4th year courses are considered equivalent for graduate school.

There's a bit of a difference between the expectations in a second year course and a 3rd year course as well.

Imo, unless it's incredibly important to take the 3rd year course, I would hold off until 3rd/4th year.

Grad schools won't hold it against you unless you do horribly in that course. But keep in mind that some schools take into consideration your last 2 years completed.

It depends on the course you're taking, and you as a person. I know someone who took 3rd yr english (as her elective) in 2nd year, along with a full science courseload (that was her only non-science course) and she still got a 10 in it (along with getting 10+ in almost all of her other courses...)

If you're good at the subject, and have an interest in it, it should be fine! Don't be scared of doing badly in it--either way, you'll learn something.

Im technically still first year, and I'm taking Ling 3M03 and 3B03, and plan on doing 3I03 if/when a space opens up. I don't see why there's any reason to worry about it.

There's a difference between being 'technically still in first year' and actually just starting your first ever year of university. It's an adjustment dealing with first-year courses, and will be even harder to deal with upper level courses where they assume you're used to university already. It's by no means impossible, but it is harder.

I took Linguistics 3C03 and 3A03 in second year and it was fine. I'm taking a 4th year linguistics course in third year.

Originally Posted by abbyabs

By the way, they are 3rd yr linguistics courses (if anyone has taken any).

Will these courses be too difficult for a mere second year?

If anybody has an insight, it would be excellent.

thanks y'all

Are you taking third-year syntax, semantics, or psycholinguistics? I'm in second year, but I'm taking all three -- however, I'm hoping to drop psycholinguistics and take moral issues.

I would've just taken phonetics and phonology, but phonology conflicts with a mandatory course of mine. So does a biochem course I wanted. Thanks, Mac.

Originally Posted by _Mike

Are you taking third-year syntax, semantics, or psycholinguistics? I'm in second year, but I'm taking all three -- however, I'm hoping to drop psycholinguistics and take moral issues.

I would've just taken phonetics and phonology, but phonology conflicts with a mandatory course of mine. So does a biochem course I wanted. Thanks, Mac.

I know, so frustrating right? I'm trying to drop psycholinguistics too haha, and take an anthro course instead. (I'll see you in syntax & semantics )

Originally Posted by feonateresa

I know, so frustrating right? I'm trying to drop psycholinguistics too haha, and take an anthro course instead. (I'll see you in syntax & semantics )

Sweet! It's not so much that I would dislike taking psycholinguistics, but I'd rather just do that next year. The only plus is that it counts as one of my mandatory credits for psych, haha!

Originally Posted by _Mike

Sweet! It's not so much that I would dislike taking psycholinguistics, but I'd rather just do that next year. The only plus is that it counts as one of my mandatory credits for psych, haha!

Awesome! Yeah, I'll probably take it next year too. Are you going to take phonetics and phonology eventually? You're doing a minor right? I have to take all these psych courses for my program too. :]

Is it possible to take the same course over again in the next year, what I mean by the is it possbile for example, to take a chem course already taken first year in 2nd year? I was hoping that I could get a second crack at increasing my grade in a particular course.

thanks for the help.

yes, it's possible i have a friend that did that. if you have above a certain grade in the lab component, then you can get exempt from the labs, too!

Originally Posted by feonateresa

Awesome! Yeah, I'll probably take it next year too. Are you going to take phonetics and phonology eventually? You're doing a minor right? I have to take all these psych courses for my program too. :]

Yup, I definitely plan on taking them both in third-year, provided that I don't have conflicts again, haha. The only thing I'm worried about is that while I really like syntax, I found the semantics unit in 1AA3 to be so boring, so I hope this course isn't too bad.

Originally Posted by nerual

yes, it's possible i have a friend that did that. if you have above a certain grade in the lab component, then you can get exempt from the labs, too!

The downside of this is I'm pretty sure the weighting of your labs is put on your exam or midterms. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure I've heard this before.

Oh no! I enrolled in psycholinuistics, it seems really interesting. But we'll see, haha.

Thanks everybody for the feedback, I feel way better now

Originally Posted by _Mike

The downside of this is I'm pretty sure the weighting of your labs is put on your exam or midterms. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure I've heard this before.

I thought that they just took your lab mark from whenever you took the course previously...I could be wrong, though.