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<p>look at the offerings over a couple of years to get an idea of how it would work for you.
In a small major, with few faculty, you may indeed have to be careful to note all the requirements and prerequisites, because some courses are taught only every other year or only in a sequence that begins in Fall (this is true, for example, for languages and Classics). It is a good idea to list all the requirements, plan out a possible 4 year sequence, and check the requirements off as you go. That is especially important for double degree students. Although there are helpful advisors at Oberlin, they won’t necessarily do this for you. You don’t want to find out the hard way that you needed a prerequisite that isn’t taught that year, especially if you plan to do a senior thesis.
Monydad is right about larger colleges having more offerings, but the same thing can happen there too. If you plan carefully, you will probably find that there are always more courses each semester that you’d like to take than that you have room for.</p>