NEED HELP!! my advisor is the worst?

Question

Please read this and tell me if my interpretation is correct.

*A student may not use courses from the same discipline to satisfy credit requirements across the content areas of the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences (e.g. a student who takes a History course to satisfy a Humanities requirement may not take another History course to satisfy a Social Sciences requirement)*

Would you think I am able to take "Intro to peace and studies(soc246)" which is a Social Science course to satisfy a Global studies requirement and take *Introduction to Culture and Society (100)* which is a requirement of social sciences. Meaning, do you think this interferes with the rules stated? If clarification is needed please ask.

Answer 1

Its not a matter of your advisor being a jerk so much as a simple matter of every day common sense;

To say that a course from the same discipline will satisfy the requirements for another is like saying water helps ignite fire.

use your logic boy!

Answer 2

you have to ask your school.  peace studies and culture studies could be lumped together easily or be considered two different subjects. see if you school has a list of classes in the course catalog or online at their website telling you which classes fufill which requirements.  my school has one of these, yours might too.

also, advisors can suck big time, but honestly it is there job to help you and if that means you have to annoy the c**p out of them to get them to answer your question properly then do it.  they are there to serve the students, yet sometimes they seem like we are a burden.  get your answers from them and make sure you understand.  also, email other advisors and see if they will answer your question in e-mail form so that you dont have to make 9 million appointments with different people in person, just to get a competent answer.

Answer 3

Our opinion does not matter. contact your school (the registrar office) and ask.

Answer 4

You have 2 sets of course requirements:  your CORE education requirements and your MAJOR requirements.

Are you attempting a double major (one major in Global Studies and one major in Social Sciences), and these two specific courses are required by their respective major?  Or does your school's core require that you have X hours in global studies and X hours in social sciences?

Or is Global Studies simply a subdivision of Social Sciences?

If you have to have electives in global studies AND electives in social science, then you should have no problems with the 2 courses you mentioned.  Both are social science courses, but one fits in that smaller section of social sciences known as "Global Studies."  

It's like if you were majoring in Literature.  Your literature MAJOR program would require that you take one semester of a western literature and one semester of a non-western literature.  You also would have a humanities CORE requirement.  Literature is one of the subjects that is covered under "humanities", but so are music and art and sometimes even history or psychology are counted here.  So since you have already taken specific lit classes for your major, you can't use another literature class to fill your humanities core requirement.  

By the way, if you don't like your adviser, don't hesitate to drop by another adviser's office (especially if it's someone you're going to take a class under this semester), and ask them to interpret the rule for you with respect to the 2 classes you mentioned.  You can even borrow one of my lines:  "My adviser is Dr. Xxxxx and he explained this to me, but I didn't quite get it.  I hate to ask him again and look like I'm really stupid.  Could you explain it to me please?"

My daughter had a double major in college, and sometimes she got frustrated because one major required class X, the second major required class Y, both classes fit into "Liberal Arts," but some technicality said she couldn't use either class to fulfill a core requirement and so now she had to go add one more class.

Good luck.