Bachelor of Applied Science and Bachelor of Software Engineering Specific Degree Requirements

1. All students are expected to enrol in at least that number of courses specified in the Calendar for the corresponding term of their program. These are the courses used to calculate the term average which is the basis of promotion decisions. Those courses which will not be included in the degree or in the term average or in the failure count must be identified at the time of enrollment (see Rule 12). The designation of these courses may be changed (with the approval of the department) at any time prior to 4 weeks before the date "Final Examinations Begin" for that term.
2. A student who achieves a term average of 60% or better, with no course grade below 50% will be Promoted, or (if any course grade is AEG (see Rule 14) will be Promoted (Aegrotat).
3. To remain in the program, a student must have a term average of 50% or better. Students who fail to meet this requirement will be Required to Withdraw from Engineering.
4. Subject to the constraints described in Rule 13 a student who achieves a term average of 60% or better, but who has one or two course grades below 50% will be Conditionally Promoted, if fewer than three failed courses have been accumulated, or Conditionally Promoted (Aegrotat), if any course grade is AEG (see Rule 15). The condition may be satisfied only by successfully clearing the failed course(s) (see the Introduction above). Once the condition is satisfied, the academic decision is changed to Promotion Granted. No student may obtain the BASc or BSE degree with a Conditionally Promoted academic decision remaining on her/his record.
5. A student who achieves a term average of 50% or better but less than 60%, or a student who achieves a term average of 60% or better but who has three or more failed courses, will be Required to Repeat the Term. While repeating the term, a student shall be excused from repeating individual courses in which a grade of 70% or better has been achieved. If this occurs, other appropriate courses, as approved by the Department, must be taken, such that the student takes a full course load in the repeat term. The Department may specify that the substitute course be any previously taken course for which the grade was less than 55%. Students repeating a term under this rule must be Promoted; that is, achieve an average of 60% or better with no course grades below 50%. Otherwise, they will be Required to Withdraw from Engineering.
6. The term No Penalty may be appended to the decision to repeat a term. In this case, the requirement to stay out for two terms before repeating the term is waived and the term is not counted as a repeat term with regard to the number of times a term can be repeated or in the calculation of the total number of terms of full-time study in the program. This condition is normally applied as a result of extenuating circumstances which significantly affected the student's performance in the failed term.
7. A student who achieves a term average of 60% or better and has failed one or two courses in that term for a cumulative total of three or more failed courses will receive the decision May Not Proceed. Normally, the student will enrol in a non-degree term devoted to retaking or replacing all or as many as possible of the failed courses. In the event that some of the failed courses are not available, the Department may specify equivalent or appropriate alternative courses to be taken in their place. If the student is otherwise in good standing, the academic decision will be changed to Conditionally Promoted when the number of uncleared failed courses has been reduced to one and to Promotion Granted when the number of uncleared failed courses has been reduced to none. A student clearing failed courses under this rule must achieve a grade of 50% or better in the corresponding courses; otherwise the student will be Required to Withdraw from Engineering.
8. The program must be completed in no more than ten terms of full-time study; that is, no more than two repeat terms are allowed. A student receiving a third failed term academic decision will be Required to Withdraw from Engineering.
9. In extraordinary circumstances, a student with a term average below 60% may be allowed to Proceed on Probation or (if any course grade is AEG (see Rule 15) may be allowed to Proceed on Probation (Aegrotat).
10. A student may be Required to Withdraw from Engineering at any time if in the opinion of the Faculty the student is unlikely to benefit from further participation in an Engineering program, the student leaves the program without notification and fails to write examinations (receives a grade of DNW for some courses), or the student has made two or more unsuccessful attempts to clear the same failed course.
11. Courses taken by students during work terms will not be included in the average for any term. However, the grades for the courses taken at the University of Waterloo or at another university on a Letter of Permission will be reported on the student's transcript. Courses taken during work terms may not be used to reduce the number of courses taken in any subsequent term.
12. There are five types of courses applicable to Engineering undergraduate programs (BASc or BSE), depending on whether the course is part of the degree requirements, or not; whether the course will be included in term average calculations, or not; and whether the course is in the failure count, or not. These courses are shown on student grade reports and transcripts as follows:
    
    

    Description	Designation	Degree Requirement	In  Average	In Fail Count
    Program requirement, included in average	blank	Yes	Yes	Yes
    Program requirement, not included in average, in failure count, SUPP not permitted	DRNA	Yes	No	Yes
    Program requirement, not in average and not in failure count	DRNC	Yes	No	No
    Not required for program, in average, not in failure count	TRIA	No	Yes	No
    Not required for program, not in average	NRNA	No	No	No

    With the exception of work term reports (see Rule 17), a mixture of courses of type DRNA and courses of type TRIA will not be permitted in a single term. Grades for courses that are not included in the term average or not required for the program will be reported on the student's transcript. Undergraduate students (BASc or BSE) are not permitted to enrol in any course in an "audit" category. The Faculty of Engineering does not permit other undergraduate students to enrol in Engineering courses in an "audit" category.

13. DRNC courses, while not in the failure count, are normally associated with courses that must be completed by a certain point in a student's program (e.g. must be completed before the end of 3A). That point is referred to as the completion date and is provided in the program description portion of the calendar for those programs that use DRNC courses. A student that has not completed the course successfully by the completion date will receive a May Not Proceed decision.
14. A student who has successfully met all of the requirements of the program will be Recommended for the BASc or BSE Degree. The degree awarded will be the one associated with the program of registration. A student who has demonstrated exceptional performance will be Recommended for the BASc or BSE Degree with Distinction. This recognition is granted to a student who has a cumulative grade average of 80% or greater, starting with his/her first enrollment in the 3A term, of those courses that are requirements for their program and that have been included in a corresponding term average (i.e., those courses of type blank above). Courses taken while on exchange, or terms for which the academic decision has Aegrotat added as a qualifier, do not contribute to the cumulative average. In such cases, the cumulative grade average will include the most recent four academic terms completed at Waterloo for which a numerical grade average is available.
15. All courses at the University of Waterloo are assigned a numerical grade (between 0 and 100) by the examiners. The following exceptions are permitted for students in programs evaluated using these promotion rules:
    
    

    AEG	Aegrotat. The student was ill according to medical evidence but has satisfactory understanding of the course.
    CR	Credit granted. Performance was satisfactory.
    DNW	Did not write. The student did not withdraw from the course and was not eligible for an Incomplete grade. The student did not complete sufficient proportion of the assignments, tests, and examinations for an evaluation to be made.
    FTC	Failure to complete. The value for FTC for average calculation is 32.
    INC	Incomplete. The course work is incomplete and the student has permission to extend the work beyond the term. If the work is not completed within six months from the end of the term, a grade will be assigned.
    IP	Course in progress, no grade assigned at this time.
    NCR	No credit granted. Performance was unsatisfactory.
    UR	Grade under review, decision pending.

    
    In cases where students have taken courses in a Faculty where letter grades were assigned, the letter grades will be converted for the purposes of reporting and averaging according to the following table:
    
    

    A+	95	B+	78	C+	68	D+	58	F+	46
    A	89	B	75	C	65	D	55	F	38
    A-	83	B-	72	C-	62	D-	52	F-	32

16. Changes to the set of courses included in the term average which a student is taking in a particular term may be permitted at the discretion of the student's department. Such changes must normally be arranged and approved before the end of the "Drop/Add" period, which is a period of two weeks at the beginning of each term. After this period, only exceptional cases will be considered. Courses not included in the average in any academic term may be dropped at any time prior to 4 weeks before the date "Final Examinations Begin" for that term as specified in this calendar.
17. Four work term report credits are required of all BASc and BSE students. A work term report credit is obtained by achieving a grade of satisfactory or better for a work term report. No student will be allowed to graduate without having achieved the required four work term report credits.
    
    Work term reports are required to be submitted in specific terms, as identified in the table below, and form part of the courses required for the corresponding term. Students enrolled in programs using a DRNA designation for the work-term report will be enrolled in the corresponding WKRPT course for the term listed in the table. Students in programs using the DRNC designation may enrol for a work-term course in a term prior to the one listed in the table, however should they have not earned a credit for the work-term course by the term specified they will automatically be enrolled in that course in that term. The work term reports are identified as WKRPT 100 , WKRPT 200, WKRPT 300, and WKRPT 400, respectively, on all transcripts.

Academic Terms in which the Work-term Report submission is required

For Programs using DRNA -course designation

Completion dates for Programs using DRNC -course designation (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Work-term reports are due seven days after the first official day of lectures of the academic term in which the report is required. If a report is not submitted before the deadline then it will receive a grade of Unacceptable (38). Reports submitted after the deadline will be carried forward to the following academic term for evaluation, and are not eligible for prizes. Failed work-term reports are cleared by re-taking the WKRPT course in a subsequent term.

Work-term reports considered to be required courses of type DRNA: failed work-term report evaluations contribute to the accumulated failed course count (see Rule 7). For failed work-term reports, the original grade will appear in the grade field. The failed course will be corrected by re-taking and passing the course in a subsequent term. 

Work-term reports considered to be required courses of type DRNC: failed work-term report evaluations do not contribute to the accumulated failed course count but will delay progress in the program if not completed by the specified term (see Rule 13). For failed work-term reports, the original grade will appear in the grade field. The failed course will be cleared by re-taking and passing the course in a subsequent term.

When a work-term report has been submitted but the grade obtained is Resubmit, the student must provide any subsequent submissions by the date "Lectures End" for that term, as specified in the calendar, in order for those submissions to be considered in that term. Failure to clear a Resubmit by the above date will result in a grade of Unacceptable (38). Any submissions after that date will be deemed to be new submissions and to have been submitted for consideration in the following term.