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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 provided they are
In Good Standing (i.e., CGPA is 1.50 or more).
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.
Students with a B.A. or B.Sc. who return to upgrade that degree to an Hon.
B.A. or Hon. B.Sc. must exchange the B.A. or B.Sc. for an Honours degree. A
B.A. leads only to an Hon. B.A.; a B.A. CANNOT be upgraded to an Hon. B.Sc.,
and a B.Sc. CANNOT be upgraded to an Hon. B.A. Students who upgrade to an Honours
degree are not eligible to attend the convocation ceremony for the upgrade.
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:
1. a Program of Study Assessment form (late April/early October) 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/late
October).
“Second Degree” Requirements
Students must petition through their college by June 30 to begin a second degree.
Before applying, students are urged to determine whether a second degree is
actually required for their purposes; for example, a “make-up” year as a non-degree
student may satisfy admission requirements for graduate school. 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 Scarborough or the University of Toronto
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).
The Faculty normally exempts students from the first year of the degree requirements
(five (5.0) credits: four 100-level and one 200-level), regardless of the number
of previous degrees held. Second degree candidates may not repeat courses taken
in a previous degree; they may however, count such courses towards satisfying
pre-requisite and program requirements, on approval of the department/programs
office concerned. A new Grade Point average will commence with the second degree
courses.
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 disciplines; 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.
PLEASE NOTE
Courses may have prerequisites not listed in the program but which must be
taken. Programs which list optional courses do not necessarily list prerequisites.
Students are responsible for fulfilling prerequisites; students enroled in
courses for which they do not have the published prerequisites may have their
registration in those courses cancelled at any time without warning.
Program Requirements
1. 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.)
2. 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.
3. 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 and two Minors, at least one Major, or both the
Minors, must be in the Science area for an Honours Bachelor of Science (combinations
must include 12 different courses).
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.
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
See also the complete
Commerce degree, program and course listing.
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) Degree Requirements
This is a four-year Honours program.
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 below);
(c) Complete the Faculty
Distribution Requirement for B.Com. students;
(d) Complete five full course equivalents from disciplines outside of Ma0nagement
(MGT), Economics (ECO), and Commerce (COM); (courses taken to fulfill (b)
and (c) may be also counted towards meeting this requirement; see also
III 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 (no
more than one 300+series transfer credit may be counted towards these six).
(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 below).
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 below).
3. ONE full course equivalent must be from the Sciences (see below), with
the following exceptions:All 100-series courses in CSC, MAT, STA; STA 250H1,
255H1, 257H1, 352Y1.
4. NOTE: transfer students from University of Toronto Mississauga or Scarborough
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 below.)
- Architecture (ARC course designators)
- Art History (FAH course designators)
- Classics (CLA course designators)
- Drama (DRM course designators)
- East Asian Studies (EAS course designators)
- English (ENG course designators)
- Estonian (EST course designators)
- Finnish (FIN course designators)
- French (FCS, FRE, FSL course designators)
- German (GER course designators)
- Greek (GRK course designators)
- History (HIS course designators); except HIS 103Y1
- Humanities First-Year Seminars (HUM199 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 and
NML 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 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 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 (BCB, BCH course designators)
- Biology (BIO course designators); except JBS 229H
- Cell & Systems Biology (CSB course designators)
- Chemistry (CHM course designators)
- Computer Science (CSC course designators)
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB course
designators)
- Geology (GLG course designators)
- Human Biology (HMB course designators); all HMB courses except
HMB438H1 and 498Y1, which are both
 Science and Social Science courses
- 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); all PHC
courses except PHC470H1, which is a Social Science course)
- 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 (SCI199 course designators)
- Statistics (STA course designators); all STA courses except
220H, 221H,250H, 255H, 257H, JBS 229H which have NO Distribution Requirement
status)
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)
- Diaspora & Transnational Studies (DTS course
designators)
- Environment (ENV course designators)
- European Studies (EUR course designators)
- Geography (GGR course designators)
- History &Philosophy of Science and Technology
(HPS course designators)
- Innis College (INI course designators)
- Interdisciplinary First Year Seminars) (INX199H1/Y1 course
designators)
- Joint courses (JXX course designators)
- Latin American Studies (LAS 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)
- Women and Gender Studies (WGS 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 103Y1
or 105Y1 or 108Y1 for the first year of the political science major. She is
also interested in sociology, so chooses SOC 101Y1.
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 104Y1: Ten Days that Shook the 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 Assessing Global Change (Sciences)
- HIS 104Y1 Ten Days that Shook the World (Humanities)
- POL 105Y1 Ethics & the Public Sphere
(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.
Science Courses for Humanities &Social
Science Students
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.
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