Some or all of the following comments will be relevant to your situation. IF YOU WISH take during your entering year. You may take such a course during any of your four years. What equivalency means is that the particular department or program counts Foundations as being worth, or equivalent to, the listed number of 100-level credits towards its majors or honours degree program. Majors programs, for example, require a total of 42 credits in a department - so, if Foundations is counted as worth 6 credits by a department, you would need to take only 36 more credits from the department to complete your requirements.
Foundations also counts towards minor program credit.
Some departments grant credit only for a specific Foundations Division. They do so because the approach or content in one or more course sections in that Division is especially suitable preparation for their degree and minor programs. If you are interested in proceeding into one of these departments you will obviously wish to take this factor into account as you select your division. The total number of credits on the list is not a meaningful number. The number of equivalency credits you will be able to use from the list will vary from 3 to 12.