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Arts Academic Regulations and Advice

Course Selection and Course Load

Course Selection

The Faculty of Arts strongly recommends that returning students request course preferences during each term's pre-enrolment course selection week and select courses during the official class enrolment period for each term to maximize their chances of obtaining access to limited enrolment courses. Class enrolment periods will be announced by the Registrar's Office and posted on Quest. The last date to add a course can be found in the Calendar of Events and Academic Deadlines listed at the beginning of the Undergraduate Calendar.

Students should consult their academic advisor before selection of courses.

Repeated courses

When a course is repeated, the two grades are not averaged together. Rather, both grades are entered with all other grades in calculating the student's cumulative overall average.

  • a failed course may be repeated once,
  • a passed course may not be repeated except under exceptional circumstances, and then only once and only under the following conditions:
    1. if the student's academic advisor recommends the repetition,
    2. if, in the event that the course in question is not within the student's major, the department offering the course also recommends the repetition, and
    3. if the Arts Examinations and Standings Committee approves the petition for repetition of the course in advance of registration for the repetition.

Only one of the two attempts will count for credit towards the degree.

Overlapping Content

Some courses which are listed under separate subjects or catalog numbers have sufficient overlapping content that students are not permitted to take both courses for credit towards their degree. Where this is the case, the information is designated in the calendar in the following manner:

  • antirequisite;
  • cross-listed;
  • formerly;
  • credit will only be granted for one of a pair of courses.

Overlapping Content Table for Statistics and Research Methods Courses
A student in the Arts Faculty may take only one course from each set for credit.

Set A – Basic Statistics Courses
ARTS 280; ECON 221; ENVS 278; ISS 250A*/250B*, 250R; KIN 222; LS 280; PSCI 214*, 314; PSYCH 292; REC 371; SMF 230; SOC 280; STAT 202206, 211, 221, 231, 241; SWREN 250A*/250B*, 250R 

Set B – Advanced Statistics Courses
BIOL 461; PSYCH 391; STAT 322, 332, 430

Set C – Research Methods Courses
ISS 251R; KIN 330; LS 321; PSYCH 291; REC 270; SOC 321; SMF 220; SWREN 251R 

*No longer offered

Cross-listed course

Cross-listed courses are considered to be equivalent in content. Students enrolled in a course which is cross-listed should be aware that the course will automatically fulfill a BA Breadth Requirement for either the rubric in which they are registering or the cross-listed rubric, but not both. Similarly, students should be aware that all courses taken under a rubric which is cross-listed with a course within the student's plan are included in the plan average.

Antirequisite

Courses noted as being antirequisites to each other are NOT considered to be equivalent as is the case with cross-listed courses.

Double-counting

For any degree granted by the Faculty of Arts, up to three courses may count towards any two plans (e.g., A major/minor combination). Counting the same course towards more than two plans is not allowed under any circumstances.


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