If the registration software will even let you do this, you're taking a big risk that when you come up for graduation, the administration will catch it and could make you go back and take the prerequisite. I'm a college prof who sits on the petitions committee at my university. Every term we get applications from students wanting the rules bent for them. Unless there's a really good reason, we refuse. Wanting to sleep in is not a good enough reason.
Yes, you might be able to b.s. your way through the course, but that's not the point. The idea is that you actually learn something. People with a lot more wisdom and education than you have realized that the best way for you to understand the Middle Eastern class is to have a foundation in Comparative Politics. It makes sense. If you don't have a basis in how other systems relate to each other, you'll be looking at the Middle Eastern class through a very narrow lens.
The fact that you're choosing to take classes based on when they meet as opposed to the course content though suggests that that may not matter to you. In that case, you might take a moment to think about why you're in college. Is it to sleep when you feel like it or to emerge as a more educated and informed person? You can't always have both. I suggest following the requirements and taking the 8 a.m. class. Consider it a character-building exercise: even in jobs that require college degrees, there's a lot of times when you have to do work you think you shouldn't have to at times you prefer not to. A very wise student once told me that maturity means doing what you're supposed to even when you don't want to. Here's a situation that calls for some maturity.
If you're really determined to avoid the prerequisite, then try going through the proper channels rather than just ignoring the prereq. Contact the prof teaching the Middle Eastern class and ask if he or she will waive the prerequisite for you. That way it can be on record that you didn't have to take it so it doesn't interfere with graduation later. If the prof refuses, then take the Comparative Politics course. Who knows? You might actually like it.
Good luck with your decision.
Yes, you might be able to b.s. your way through the course, but that's not the point. The idea is that you actually learn something. People with a lot more wisdom and education than you have realized that the best way for you to understand the Middle Eastern class is to have a foundation in Comparative Politics. It makes sense. If you don't have a basis in how other systems relate to each other, you'll be looking at the Middle Eastern class through a very narrow lens.
The fact that you're choosing to take classes based on when they meet as opposed to the course content though suggests that that may not matter to you. In that case, you might take a moment to think about why you're in college. Is it to sleep when you feel like it or to emerge as a more educated and informed person? You can't always have both. I suggest following the requirements and taking the 8 a.m. class. Consider it a character-building exercise: even in jobs that require college degrees, there's a lot of times when you have to do work you think you shouldn't have to at times you prefer not to. A very wise student once told me that maturity means doing what you're supposed to even when you don't want to. Here's a situation that calls for some maturity.
If you're really determined to avoid the prerequisite, then try going through the proper channels rather than just ignoring the prereq. Contact the prof teaching the Middle Eastern class and ask if he or she will waive the prerequisite for you. That way it can be on record that you didn't have to take it so it doesn't interfere with graduation later. If the prof refuses, then take the Comparative Politics course. Who knows? You might actually like it.
Good luck with your decision.