General Degree Requirements
Students completing a second Faculty of Arts & Science degree: please
see “Second Degree Requirements” below.
In the requirements below the word “course” means one full
course equivalent—a “full course” or two “half-courses”;
in the Programs and Courses section, “full courses” are listed
as Y1 courses, and “half-courses” are listed as H1 courses.
Honours Bachelor of Arts/Honours
Bachelor of Science
General Degree Requirements
Please note: in the requirements below the word “course”
means one full-course equivalent.
To qualify for an Honours Bachelor of Arts (Hon.B.A.) or Honours Bachelor
of Science (Hon. B.Sc.), you must:
(a) Obtain standing (i.e., receive 50% or more) in at least 20 courses
that meet the following criteria:
1. No more than six courses may be 100-series.
2. At least six courses must be 300+series courses (no more than one
300+series transfer credit may be counted towards these six).
3. No more than fifteen courses may have the same three-letter designator
(“AST”, “ENG”, etc.).
(b) Complete one of the following program requirements
One specialist program (which includes at least one course at the 400-level)
or
Two major programs, which must include 12 different courses
or
One major and two minor programs, which must include 12 different courses
or
Students registered in the Faculty before the 2000-2001 session may
also complete three minor programs, which must include 12 different
courses; this option is discontinued for students registering for the
first time in 2000-2001 and thereafter.
Note: whether you receive an Hon. B.A. or an Hon. B.Sc. depends on
the program(s) you complete; see Program Requirements, below.
(c) Complete the Distribution Requirement.
(d) Obtain a Cumulative GPA of 1.85 or more by the time of graduation.
Students who meet all the requirements for the Hon.B.A./Hon.B.Sc. except
for the GPA requirement may elect to graduate with a B.A./B.Sc. degree.
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
Effective for all students registered for the first time in a degree
program in the Faculty of Arts and Science for the summer 2001 session
and thereafter, the St. George Campus of the Faculty has discontinued
the 15 course (three-year) B.A. and B.Sc. degrees. Students registered
in a degree program in the Faculty before Summer 2001 may still choose
a 15-course (three-year) degree; these students should consult their college
registrar’s office.
Different degree regulations apply to students who first registered in
the Faculty before Winter Session 1992; these students should consult
their College Registrar.
Graduation
Students who expect to graduate at the end of a given session must use
the Student Web Service or notify their College Registrars in writing
to make their degree requests by the dates specified in the Calendar.
Prospective graduands should receive the following documents from the
University:
- a Program of Study Assessment form (late April/early October) from
the program sponsor;
- a letter from the Office of Convocation providing details of the
convocation ceremony (late March/mid-October);
- a Statement of Results (or letter for non-registered students) from
the Office of the Faculty Registrar confirming degree eligibility (early
June/late October).
“Second Degree” Requirements
Students beginning a second degree are normally exempted from the first
year of the degree requirements by being granted five (5.0) credits, four
100-level and one 200-level, regardless of the number of previous degrees
held. Students are governed by the rules of the Faculty in place at the
time they commence their second degree. Students who already hold a degree
from the Faculty of Arts and Science, the University of Toronto at Scarborough
or the University of Toronto at Mississauga may complete a second degree
only of an alternate type (i.e. if a student has a B.A. degree then he/she
may not complete a second B.A. degree).
Note:
In biological and science programs there may be occasions when scientific
observations are made by students on themselves or on fellow students.
These include common diagnostic or immunization procedures. Unless a valid
reason exists, students are expected to participate in such exercises.
If any investigative work involving student participation does not form
part of the program, participation is voluntary.
Program Requirements
Completion of a program of study (also known as a "subject POSt")
is only one part of the general degree requirements. Variations made in
program details for individual students do not in any way affect degree
requirements.
Meaning of "Program"
Programs are groupings of courses in one or more disciplins; these groupings
are listed with each college or department entry in the "Programs
and Courses" section of this Calendar.
Types of programs are:
Specialist Program: a sequence of between 9 and 17.5
courses* in one or more disciplines. Specialist programs must include
at least four 300+series courses, one of which must be a 400-series course.
Major Program: a sequence of between 6 and 8 courses*
in one or more disciplines. Major programs must include at least two 300+series
courses.
Minor Program: a sequence of 4 courses* in one or more
disciplines. Minor programs must include at least one 300+series course.
* Courses may have prerequisites not listed in the program but which
must be taken.
Program Requirements
- You must enrol in at least one and no more than three subject POSts
(of which only two can be majors or specialists), in the session in
which you pass your fourth course (see the Registration Handbook and
Timetable for details). Students admitted with transfer credit for four
courses or more must do this immediately upon admission.)
- You must meet any enrolment requirements for a program as stated
in the Calendar. If you do not meet these requirements, you may be removed
from the subject POSts.
- The subject POSts(s) you complete determine whether you receive a
science or an arts degree upon graduation. In the “Programs and
Courses” section, each program indicates the type of degree to
which it leads. For example, in the English section, the English Specialist
listing is followed by “Arts program”; the Geology Major
is followed by “Science program”, etc.
To receive an Hon. B.Sc., for example:
- One Specialist in a science area leads to an Hon. B.Sc.;
- One Major in a science area plus one Major in an arts. area leads
to either an Hon. B.Sc. or an Hon.B.A. - your choice (two Majors must
include 12 different courses);
- In combinations of one Major + two Minors, two of the three programs
must be in science areas for an Hon. B.Sc. (combinations must include
12 different courses).
Self-Designed Programs
Students may design their own Programs, which must be substantially different
from any Program in this Calendar. Such a Program, if formally adopted
by the student’s College on the basis of its academic rigour and
coherence, and if approved by the Committee on Academic Standards, will
be accepted as fulfilling the degree requirement for certification in
a Program (transcripts indicate only “Completed Self-designed Programs
approved by ’X’ College”). Since the approval process
is necessarily a long one, students following this alternative must discuss
this process with their College Registrar immediately after completion
of the fourth course in the Faculty.
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Degree Requirements
For the complete Commerce degree, program and course listing, see page
34.
To qualify for a Bachelor of Commerce degree, a student must:
(a) Complete twenty full-course equivalents, including no more than six
100-series courses;
(b) Complete the Commerce and Finance Program (see page 35);
(c) Complete the Faculty Distribution Requirement for B.Com. students
(see below);
(d) Complete five full course equivalents from disciplines outside of
Management (MGT) and Economics (ECO); and Commerce (COM); (courses taken
to fulfill (b) and (c) may be also counted towards meeting this requirement;
see also III.3 in Commerce and Finance Program below).
(e) Obtain standing (i.e., complete with a grade of 50% or more) in at
least six 300- or 400-series courses, including at least one 400-series
course.
(f) Achieve a cumulative GPA of 1.85 or more by the time of graduation.
Graduation
Students who expect to graduate at the end of a given session must use
the Student Web Service or notify their College Registrars in writing
to make their degree requests by the dates specified in the Calendar.
Prospective graduands should receive the following documents from the
University:
1. a Program of Study Assessment form (late April/late August) from the
program sponsor;
2. a letter from the Office of Convocation providing details of the convocation
ceremony (late March/mid-October);
3. a Statement of Results (or letter for non-registered students) from
the Office of the Faculty Registrar confirming degree eligibility (early
June/early September).
Faculty Distribution Requirement for B.Com. Students
As part of the degree requirements for the B.Com., STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE
ONE FULL COURSE EQUIVALENT IN EACH OF THE HUMANITIES, THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
AND THE SCIENCES AREAS as defined below:
1. ONE full course equivalent must be from the Humanities (see Page
22).
2. ONE full course equivalent must be from the Social Sciences (MGT courses
may be used to meet this requirement with the exception of MGT 120H1,
121H1 and COM 110H1, which have NO Distribution Requirement status; see
Page 22).
3. ONE full course equivalent must be from the Sciences (see Page 22),
with the following exceptions:
All 100-series courses in CSC, MAT, STA; STA 250H1, 255H1, 257H1, 352Y1.
4. NOTE: transfer students from UTM or UTSC must meet the St. George Distribution
Requirement.
The Distribution Requirement
On the St. George Campus Arts and Science courses fall into three areas:
- Humanities
- Social Science
- Sciences
To qualify for any degree you must complete at least one full course
equivalent in each of these three areas, for a total of 3.0 full course
equivalents.
Courses that you take as part of your Specialist, Major or Minor programs
may also be used to count towards the Distribution Requirement.
To help you understand the Distribution Requirement, there is a sample
student course enrolment on next page.
The courses in these three areas are as follows:
Humanities
Courses with the three-letter designators below are Humanities
courses. (In addition, other designators have courses in more than one
area; these designators are listed on the next page.)
Architecture (ARC course designators)
Classics (CLA course designators)
Drama (DRM course designators)
East Asian Studies (EAS course designators)
English (ENG course designators)
Estonian (EST course designators)
Fine Art History (FAH course designators)
Finnish (FIN course designators)
French (FCS, FRE, FLS course designators)
German (GER course designators)
Greek (GRK course designators)
History (HIS course designators); except HIS 103Y1
Humanities (HUM course designators)
Hungarian (HUN course designators)
Italian (ITA course designators)
Latin (LAT course designators)
Music (MUS, HMU, TMU course designators)
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (NMC course designators)
Philosophy (PHL course designators)
Portuguese (PRT course designators)
St. Michael’s College Courses (SMC course designators)
Slavic Languages & Literatures (SLA course designators)
Spanish (SPA course designators)
Visual Studies (VIS course designators; listed with
Fine Art)
World Literature (WLD course designators)
Social Science
Courses with the three-letter designators below are Social Science courses.
(In addition, other designators have courses in more than one area; these
designators are listed on the next page.)
Archaeology (ARH course designators)
Economics (ECO course designators)
Mathematics: MAT 123H, 124H and 133Y are Social Science courses; ALL other
MAT are Science courses
Management (MGT course designators), except MGT 120H, 121H, 123H, which
have NO Distribution
Requirement status)
Political Science (POL course designators)
Sociology (SOC course designators)
Social Science First Year Seminars (SSC 199Y1 course designators)
Woodsworth College (WDW course designators)
Science
Courses with the three-letter designators below are SCIENCE courses. (In
addition, other designators have courses in more than one area; these
designators are listed on the next page.) Some restrictions in the applicability
of 100-series Science courses apply to B.Com. students; see the Commerce
Programs listing starting on page 34 of this Calendar for more information.
Actuarial Science (ACT course designators)
Anatomy (ANA course designators)
Applied Mathematics (APM course designators; listed with Mathematics)
Astronomy (AST course designators)
Biochemistry (BCH course designators)
Biology (BIO course designators); except JBS 229H
Botany (BOT course designators)
Chemistry (CHM course designators)
Computer Science (CSC course designators)
Geology (GLG course designators)
Immunology (IMM course designators)
Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology (LMP course designators)
Mathematics (MAT course designators); all Mathematics courses except 123H,
124H, 133Y1, which are Social Science courses)
Materials Science (MSE course designators)
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology (MGY course designators)
Nutritional Sciences (NFS course designators)
Pharmacology (PCL course designators)
Pharmaceutical Chemistry (PHC course designators)
Physical Education & Health (PHE course designators)
Physics (PHY course designators)
Planetary Science (PLN course designators)
Physiology (PSL course designators)
Psychology (PSY course designators)
Science First-Year Seminars (SCI 199Y1 course designators)
Statistics (STA course designators); all STA courses except 220H, 221H,250H,
255H, 257H, JBS 229H which have NO Distribution Requirement status)
Zoology (ZOO course designators)
Courses Which Can Fall in More than One of the Three Areas
To find which area each course is in, check the individual course
descriptions:
Aboriginal Studies (ABS course designators)
Anthropology (ANT course designators)
Asia-Pacific Studies (ASI course designators)
Environment (ENV course designators)
European Studies (EUR course designators)
Geography (GGR course designators)
History & Philosophy of Science and Technology (HPS course designators)
Ibero-American Studies (IAS course designators)
Innis College (INI course designators)
Interdisciplinary First Year Seminars) (INX199Y1 course designators)
Joint courses (JXX course designators)
Linguistics (LIN course designators)
New College (NEW course designators)
Religion (RLG course designators)
Trinity College (TRN course designators)
University College (UNI course designators)
Victoria College (VIC course designators)
Sample Student Course Enrolment Allowing for Distribution Requirements
Sokit wants to do a major in political science and a major in anthropology.
She needs ANT 100Y1 for the first year of an anthropology major and POL
102Y1 or 103Y1 or 108Y1 for the first year of the political science major.
She is also interested in sociology, so chooses SOC101Y1.
The ANT, POL, and SOC courses are in Social Sciences, so they fulfill
that part of the Distribution Requirement. She needs the following to
fulfill the rest of her Distribution Requirement:
- One course from Humanities
- One course from Sciences
Sokit thinks that a History course would be a useful complement to her
Political Science interest; at the same time it will fulfill the Humanities
Distribution Requirement, so she enrols in HIS 101Y1: The Emergence of
the Third World.
To fulfill the Science Distribution Requirement she chooses ENV 200Y1:
Science and the Environment.
Sokit’s first year courses (and their respective Distribution Requirement
areas) are thus as follows:
- ANT 100Y1 Introduction to Anthropology (Social Science)
- ENV 200Y1 Science and the Environment (Sciences)
- HIS 101Y1 The Emergence of the Third World (Humanities)
- POL 102Y1 Issues in Canadian Politics (Social Science)
- SOC 101Y1 Introduction to Sociology (Social Science)
Sokit’s course choices fulfill the first year course requirements
for the programs she wants to pursue; they also fulfill all three Distribution
Requirements, giving her lots of flexibility in future years.
Humanities Courses for Science and Social Science Students
These courses are especially designed for science and social science
students to fulfill the Humanities Distribution Requirement; none of them
has OAC/Grade 12 prerequisites.
- CLA201H1 Latin and Greek in Scientific Terminology
- CLA203H1 Science in Antiquity 39L
- CLA204H1 Introduction to Classical Mythology 26L, 13T
- FCS195H1 French Culture from Napoleon to Asterix26L
- FCS298H1 French Culture and Asia 26L
- HPS210H1 Scientific Revolutions I 26L, 13T
- HPS211H1 Scientific Revolutions II 26L, 13T
- HUM101Y1 Civilizations and Cultures of Asia 52L
- HUM199Y1 First Year Seminar
- JEF100Y1 The Western Tradition 78L
Science Courses for Humanities & Social Science Courses
These courses are especially designed for humanities and social science
students to fulfill the Science Distribution Requirement; none of them
has OAC/Grade 12 prerequisites.
- AST101H1 The Sun and Its Neighbours 26L
- AST201H1 Stars and Galaxies 26L
- AST210H1 The History and Nature of Astronomical Discovery26L
- BOT202Y1 Plants and Society 52L
- CHM200Y1 The Role of Chemistry in Modern Society 52L
- CSC104H1 The Why and How of Computing 26L, 13T
- ENV200Y1 Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment 52L,
24T
- GLG100H1 Elementary Mineralogy 26L
- GLG103H1 Geology in Public Issues 26L
- GLG105H1 Evolution of the Earth:Controversy over the Last 2300 Years
26L
- GLG110H1 Introductory Geology 26L
- GLG205H1 Confronting Global Change 26L, 8T
- HPS210H1 Scientific Revolutions I 26L, 13T
- HPS211H1 Scientific Revolutions II 26L, 13T
- JUM103H1 Mathematics as a Recreation 26L, 13T
- JUM105H1 Mathematical Personalities 26L, 13T
- JPU200Y1 The Way of Physics 52L, 26T
- PHY100H1 The Magic of Physics 26L, 13T
- SCI199Y First Year Seminar Courses
- ZOO200Y1 Aspects of Human Biology 52L, 26T
- ZOO214Y1 Evolutionary Theory 52L, 26T
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