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FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR 2005-2006

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ACADEMIC DEFINITIONS

Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete a specific course(s) prior to enrolling in an advanced course.

Corequisite: A course that may be taken concurrently with or prior to another course(s).

Antirequisite: Students may not enroll in a course which lists, as an antirequisite, one which they are also taking or in which they have already obtained standing.

Course Hours: The hours associated with a given course may include not only lecture, seminar and laboratory hours but also hours that need to be timetabled in order to allocate resources for those taking the course for such activities as unsupervised studio and laboratory work, internship and independent study.

Course Numbers: Effective Fall 2005, all courses are designated by letters and digits. The three letters identify the subject area. The digits identify a unique course title. Three digits identify a single-term course. Two digits and an "A" or "B" identify the first half (A) or second half (B) of a multi-term course. No grade is given until completion of both A and B parts of any multi-term course. Prior to Fall 2005, single-term courses were referred to as one-term courses and multi-term courses, as two-term courses. Two-term courses were identified by the placement of a "0" as the first digit followed by any two numbers.

Professional Studies: Studies that induce functional competence by presenting the knowledge and developing the skills characteristic of current practice in the career field.

Professionally Related Studies: Studies that develop an understanding of the theoretical disciplines upon which the career field is based, or which synthesize the diverse elements of professional study.

Liberal Studies: Studies that develop the capacity to understand and appraise the social and cultural context in which the graduate will work as a professional and live as an educated citizen.

Course Weight: A one-term course has a course weight of 1.00. A two-term course has a course weight of 2.00. Variances from the above will appear in the individual course descriptions.

Faculty of Arts: Courses are indicated as follows, LL—Lower Level Liberal Studies, UL—Upper Level Liberal Studies, and PR—Professionally-Related courses.


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