Academic Calendar 2007
(New Academic Choices)

Before entering the combined BESc/LLB degree program, students must have completed the first three years of the Software Engineering program at Western (or equivalent). In addition to applying for the combined degree program through the Office of the Associate Dean - Academic of the Faculty of Engineering, students must also make a separate application to the Faculty of Law for admission into the LLB program by the published deadline, May 1. In the application to the Law School, the applicant must indicate that he or she is applying to the combined BESc/LLB program.

To be eligible for the combined degree program, students must have completed all the requirements of the first year curriculum in the Faculty of Engineering, and the second and third year program, Option C, of the Software Engineering program with either a minimum cumulative weighted average (CWA) of 80% or stand in the top 10% of the class. In addition, the applicant must meet the minimum LSAT requirement established by the Law School Admission Committee for all combined degree programs.

Entrance into the combined degree program is competitive and limited.

Once admitted to the combined program, students are required to maintain a minimum year weighted average of 75% in their Engineering curriculum courses and a B average in their Law courses.

A student who fails to meet the combined program progression standards in any year will be requiredto withdraw from the combined program. However, a student who has met the progression standards of either the Engineering or LLB program, will be allowed to proceed to the next year of that program. If the progression standards of both individual programs have been satisfied, the student may continue in either program and may petition the Faculty whose program was not selected for permission to complete that program at a later date. A student who is required to withdraw from the combined program and wishes to pursue either or both of the individual programs, must complete all the degree requirements of the individual program or programs in order to graduate from that program or those programs.

Common first year of Engineering.

Applied Mathematics 276, ECE 238a/b, ECE 239a/b, ES 211F/G, SE 203a/b, SE 204a/b, SE 205a/b, SE 250a/b, SE 251a/b, Computer Science 037a/b, Statistical Sciences 241a/b.

ECE 339a/b, ECE 375a/b, SE 310a/b, SE 311a/b, SE 312a/b, SE 313a/b, SE 314a/b, SE 350y, SE 351a/b, SE 352a/b, SE 353a/b.

First year Law curriculum. No courses outside Law may be taken during this year.

SE 410a/b, SE 450, SE 452a/b, SE 453a/b.

In years five and six students must complete the following requirements for the LLB:

NOTES:

Fulfillment of the Faculty of Engineering requirement of courses that expose students to the impact
of technology on society, ethical issues, economics and the thought processes in the Humanities and
Social Sciences must be taken as follows:

Students enrolled in the combined program are not eligible for an exchange program with the Faculty of Engineering; however, they may be eligible for an exchange through the Faculty of Law in Year
Five or Six. This will require advanced planning with both faculties