<York Calendars<Undergraduate Calendar 2001-2002<Faculty of Pure and Applied Science<Regulations Governing Undergraduate Degree Requirements

Degree Credit Exclusions

The University offers some courses in which at least part of the content is similar to that presented in other courses. To ensure that degree credit is not granted more than once for similar content, the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science and the Faculty of Arts designate such courses as degree credit exclusions (usually simply called exclusions). The exclusion(s) for a particular course are listed at the end of the course outline in this Calendar. (Note that the courses within such a list may not be exclusions of one another - e.g. two courses may have nothing in common with each other yet may both overlap a third course.)

If a student in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science enrols in and successfully completes two courses which are designated as exclusions of each other, degree credit is given for only one. Both courses appear on the student's official York University transcript, and are included in grade point average calculations (except in the case of pass/fail graded courses) and in the total number of credits taken (for determination of status regarding academic warning and failure to gain standing).

For information regarding Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies courses as exclusions for Science courses in this Calendar, Science students must refer to the "Faculty of Pure and Applied Science Degree Credit Exclusion/Equivalent Tables" which are available in the Office of Science Academic Services beginning in March each year or can be found in the back of the Lecture Schedules. Similar information regarding Arts courses is also included in the Lecture Schedules.

A course (or combination of courses) designated as an exclusion for another course may be substituted for the latter (for the purposes of satisfying prerequisite and/or degree requirements) only with Faculty/department/division/program approval. Information regarding approved substitute courses may be found in the program of study requirements in Science section V, in the prerequisite requirements listed for courses in this Calendar, in the departmental supplementary calendars, or in the "Faculty of Pure and Applied Science Degree Credit Exclusion/Equivalent Tables."

References to discontinued courses are retained in the exclusion listings in Calendar copy for only a limited number of years. Written permission of the department(s) to take both courses for credit is advisable before enrolling in a course which may overlap a discontinued course taken previously which is no longer listed as an exclusion. Such permission should be filed in the student's file in the Office of the Registrar.