BA Honours Degree Requirements
9. i) For graduation with an Honours degree students
must have the equivalent of 120 credits and must have obtained the requisite
cumulative average in the major and overall. Honours students are eligible
to enrol in a year according to the number of credits they have obtained
(see below):
Year |
Credits |
Year 1 |
Fewer than 24 credits |
Year 2 |
Fewer than 54 credits |
Year 3 |
Fewer than 84 credits |
Year 4 |
At least 84 credits |
ii) Subject to the selection criteria of the major
department(s), students will be registered in the Honours program who,
upon completion of each academic session, have a cumulative average as
follows:
Year |
Cumulative major average |
Cumulative overall average |
1 |
- |
4.0 |
2 |
- |
4.4 |
3 |
4.5 |
4.7 |
4 |
5.0 |
5.0 |
Students who have taken 84 credits, and who wish to
proceed in an Honours program must have a cumulative grade point average
of 5.0 in their major and 5.0 overall.
iii) Students whose averages do not meet these requirements
at the end of an academic session may be given special permission by their
Honours departments to continue as Honours students. Otherwise such students
will be reclassified as bachelor of arts degree students. No student,
however, may graduate with an Honours degree if the student's cumulative
overall and major averages do not meet the fourth year requirements.
iv) Authorization of Advising Documents: All second-,
third- and fourth-year candidates shall arrange their study plan before
the registration period with the department in which they intend to take
their Honours subject.
v) Candidates who fail to meet the cumulative overall
or major averages for an Honours program will be allowed to continue in
bachelor of arts degree studies or to qualify for the bachelor of arts
degree provided that their standing is sufficient to warrant this; or
they may petition to have their session counted as a failure and excluded
from their cumulative overall average. They will then be placed on academic
probation (see Regulation 32).
vi) Candidates who successfully completed the third
year of Honours degree studies, and who have fulfilled the requirements
for the bachelor of arts degree or who expect to have done so on completion
of the current session, may be awarded the bachelor of arts degree by
applying to the Office of Student Programs not later than January 31.
vii) Candidates who have been permitted to take the
bachelor of arts degree in accordance with Regulation 9 (vi) may apply
for re-admission to fourth-year Honours studies in the Honours subject(s)
previously carried in third year and, if re-admitted, will have their
BA degree reclassified with Honours upon successful completion of their
fourth-year program.
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