Enrolment in Courses
20. i) Full-time students register in 24 to 36 credits
each term and have grades recorded for a total of 24 to 36 credits during
an academic session.
ii) Students who are on probation may not take more
than 30 credits during a session. Waiver of this regulation can only be
granted under extenuating circumstances by petition.
iii) Part-time students will take no more than 21 credits
in one academic session.
iv) Enrolment is permitted in full and half courses
within the deadlines published in the Lecture Schedule. Enrolments at
later dates will be made only with the written permission of all course
directors and Chairs of the departments involved. Withdrawals are permitted
as outlined in Regulation 21.
v) At the time of registration, all students, except
those in first year, must register in a major discipline or disciplines.
vi) Students wishing to take courses more than one
year above or below their year must secure approval of the department
or division offering the course.
vii) First year students may be admitted to second-year
courses where indicated in the Calendar. To be admitted to other second-year
courses, first year students must secure approval of the department or
division offering the course.
viii) These regulations are subject to the provision
that a course may be closed by departments and divisions when its enrolment
ceiling is reached.
ix) All students who are permitted to register in courses
offered in a year below their own year should take note that the standards
employed in assigning and assessing their work in these courses will be
such as are generally appropriate for courses in their own year.
- x) (a) Students are allowed to retake a failed course once for academic
degree or certificate credit.
- (b) Students are allowed to retake a passed course once for academic
degree or certificate credit, only if the student has failed to achieve
sufficient standing to proceed in a core or prerequisite course in a
degree or certificate program and if no alternative remedies are provided.
- (c) When a student is allowed to repeat a course for academic degree
or certificate credit, both grades are counted in the grade point average.
A course can be credited only once towards satisfaction of degree or
certificate academic credit requirements.
- (d) Failed or passed courses which are repeated will be included
on the transcript with the original grade. Courses which have been repeated
will have the notation "REP" (repeated) beside the first occurrence
of the course on a transcript.
xi) Courses which are offered on an ungraded pass/fail
basis only and where the fail grade is to count as zero in the grade point
average, will be designated as credit/no credit courses.
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