Learning that happens outside a classroom still counts. Nobody asks where you got smart.

Skill does not come with a receipt. What you taught yourself from a video at two in the morning, or picked up on a job, or worked out by breaking something, sits in the same place as anything from a syllabus. Assuming only the official version counts mostly discourages people who are already learning. The knowledge does not know where it came from.

Count what you have actually learned this year, including every part nobody assigned. Put the self-taught things on the same list as the coursework. If something you are curious about has no class attached, that is not a reason to treat it as less real.