York is a big and diverse university. There are thousands of courses available on a broad range of topics. Although you are primarily interested in one of the majors offered by the Faculty of Science the degree requirements do leave room for a few free choice courses.
Likely you have many other interests. Perhaps early civilisations? Medieval science? There are courses that are bound to satisfy almost any scholarly interest you may have.
Before each academic session begins, you should develop a course plan to ensure that you are satisfying the requirements of your program. You should plan to fit in courses that meet the full range of your interests.
If you need assistance developing your course plan or understanding your degree requirements, get advice either from Science Academic Services (SAS) or your Home Department. The Registrar鈥檚 Office also has a about enrolment issues.
Current Students
Making a Plan
Before each academic session begins, you should develop a course plan to ensure that you are satisfying the requirements of your program.
It is important that you familiarize yourself with both the Faculty of Science 鈥楶rograms of 快播视频鈥 section of the as well as the regulations governing your degree requirements in the section on 鈥楻egulations Governing Undergraduate Degree Requirements鈥 in Faculty of Science, which is also available in the .
Most departments publish a Supplemental Calendar each year that provides detailed advice about the courses offered that year and the requirements of the major. Usually there is a year-by-year plan outlining how you should take courses to meet the requirements of the major.
Academic Advising:
If you need assistance developing your course plan or understanding your degree requirements, there are two service points in the Faculty of Science:
1. Science Academic Services (SAS)聽鈥 visit the office or Qless visual advising
2. Your聽Home Department
Searching for Courses
How do you find courses? Easy 鈥 no matter what the course you鈥檙e looking for.
This website allows you to:
- 聽Search currently active Course Timetables
- 聽Print your timetable
- 聽View exam schedules
You can browse the courses and search in various ways. Ultimately you want to choose courses you鈥檒l actually take and plan a schedule. The Registrar鈥檚 Office website has a that you can use to plan out your schedule. The Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) is an online self-serve tool that helps plan your course schedule. You can use the template to record your course choices and options and plan a conflict-free schedule. It is always good to have a few options ready in case when you come to actually enrol your first choices are full or not available to you.
You should note the 鈥楥atalogue Number鈥 displayed on the schedule for each course you select. The Catalogue Number is what you will enter when you actually try to enrol in courses. Have your Passport York username and password ready to proceed.
Some Important Details
1. How to Read the Course Information
Courses have a Faculty, subject, number, credit value and course title. For example, SC/CHEM 1000 3.00 Chemical Structure where SC indicates the Faculty offering the course (Faculty of Science in this case), CHEM indicates the subject of the course (CHEM for Chemistry), 1000 is the course number (the first digit indicates the year level) and 3.0 indicates the credit value of the course. 鈥淐hemical Structure鈥 is the course title. Click on the 鈥淐ourse Description and Schedule鈥 link to the right of a listed course to view the description and schedule for the session.
The course description at the top of each page contains important information about the course such as how it may apply to certain requirements, whether it is open to only some students and whether there are prerequisites or course-credit exclusions to be considered.
2. How to Read the Schedule Information
The schedule shows all classes offered for a particular session. You鈥檒l see Term F or Term W for courses in the Fall/Winter Session or Term SU, Term S1, Term S2 (and sometimes a few others) for the Summer session. The 鈥楽ection鈥 refers to a particular lecture (given by a particular instructor) and there may be more than one section for a course. But the section may also include associated tutorials and lab sessions. To enrol in a course that has lab sessions you must choose a particular lab; doing so automatically enrols you in the associated lecture and tutorial sessions.
The type indicates how the component of a course is delivered. There are many different ways in which classes are offered at York. For a full list of course 鈥渢ypes鈥 go to the on the . The common types of class delivery in the Faculty of Science are Lecture (LECT), Tutorial (TUTR) and Laboratory (LAB). When planning your schedule note that you will have to plan to attend all components of the class in a week such as both the lectures and tutorial or lab times.
Pre-Requisites & Course Credit Exclusions
Prerequisites
Most courses in science disciplines require that you know some foundational material, i.e. that you have taken some previous course(s). These are called Prerequisites. Generally the course enrolment system does not enforce prerequisites. You may be able to enrol without having taken the prerequisites; but if you do you are likely to be removed from the course by the department that offers it.
Naturally we want students to succeed and prerequisites are one way of advising students about the order in which they should take courses.
If you perform poorly in a course that you took without having previously taken the prerequisite, the lack of a prerequisite, even if it was approved by the instructor, is not viewed as valid reason for any subsequent consideration (e.g. grounds for dropping a course after the drop deadline).
Course Credit Exclusions
Some courses cover similar material. Naturally a student should not receive credit for taking both courses if they are quite similar. Such courses are identified in a list labelled Course Credit Exclusion that is part of the course description.
The course enrolment system does not prevent you from enrolling in a course that is an exclusion with one you have already taken. If you do your transcript will show that the first course is annotated with NCR meaning 鈥渘o credit retained鈥.
Enrolling
Ready to enrol? You will need your Passport York to actually enrol. Passport York is the username and password you use to access online services at York.
If you鈥檙e a new student follow the link from the to get a Passport York username. Note that you cannot create a Passport York username if you have not yet accepted your offer of admission.
Detailed enrolment instructions are outlined in the The last step is to if you don鈥檛 pay the deposit by the required date you鈥檒l be de-enrolled and have to start all over again!
Note that your deposit is part of the tuition fee. It is not an additional fee over and above course fees. The deposit confirms your registration at 快播视频 and unlocks services you will need to prepare for the start of classes and continue through your courses.
Need help? Contact 鈥
- Science Academic Services (SAS)聽鈥 visit the office, or Live Chat (click below)
- 测辞耻谤听Home Department
Enrolment Verification Letters
Students regularly require verification of enrolment at 快播视频 for a variety of purposes, including for example RESP verification of enrolment. You can .
Letters of Permission
A letter of permission is a letter provided by the University you are currently attending (your home university), which gives you permission to take a course or courses at another university. This ensures that your home university will give you credit for the course(s) you completed on a letter of permission. Often, students who spend the summer in a different town/city from where their home university is, take courses on a letter of permission at the local university with the credits being transferred back to their home university.
Detailed information about the process that York students need to follow to is available on the .