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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 this 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.

  • 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.

Cross-listed courses

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 Bachelor of Arts 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.

Antirequisites

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

Double-counting

Arts Faculty regulations require that for any combination of academic plans:

  • at least 50% of the courses taken to fulfill the requirements of any academic plan must be unique to that plan, and
  • a maximum of 2.5 academic course units (five courses) may be counted towards two academic plans.

The practice of counting a course towards two different academic plans is known as "double-counting". Specializations, such as the Language Specialization in Classical Studies, are regarded as being housed within the main academic plan, and so are not subject to concerns about double-counting between them. Under no circumstances are students allowed to "triple-count" (i.e., count one course towards three separate academic plans).


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