It isn't. If the classes to finish the GD minor are available in the spring (and they should be, but sometimes 350 isn't offered at all, which is... awkward for a course that's a program core requirement), I take them and graduate in May. If they're not, I scratch the GD minor, and since the apply-for-degree deadline is after spring registration starts, and I'll have completed the other minor and the main degree requirements this fall, I file the paperwork earlier than expected graduate in December. Either way I graduate, it just means I'll have taken six credits of introductory graphic design for no real reason. I still filled up my full-time schedule with it, so, not a total loss.

Also,

>Someone in the department already knows which courses will be
>offered in the entire academic year, and very often for the
>next year too.

Your faith in the University of Maine's art department is touching, but I suspect possibly misplaced. :)

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