Adding and Dropping Courses
Courses normally may not be added and dropped after the specified deadline dates. In exceptional cases and on presentation of evidence of medical or compassionate grounds or other extenuating circumstances, the Dean (or designate) of the faculty of registration may grant a petition to waive the regulation.
The Office of the Registrar, in consultation with the academic community and appropriate administrative offices, will determine all applicable sessional dates for the academic year and recommend them to Senate for approval in December. The list of sessional dates will be maintained on the Office of the Registrar's website in the Academic Calendar at www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca
Deadline dates for adding a course normally will be calculated according to the table below*.
Once classes begin, a course may be added or dropped only with the joint approval of the Dean (or designate) of the Faculty in which the student is registered and the Chair (or designate) of the Department concerned.
A course that has been dropped by the last date specified for adding a course shall be expunged from the records. A course that has been dropped after the last date specified for adding a course but before the last date for dropping a course without academic penalty (or subsequently, if a petition is granted by the Dean) shall be recorded as "WDN."
A course that has not been dropped in accordance with the above regulations and that has not been completed satisfactorily by the student shall be recorded as "F."
TYPE OF COURSE
|
SESSION
|
LAST DAY TO ADD
|
LAST DATE OR DAY
TO DROP
|
|
(Number of business days from and including the start date of the session)
|
Full course
|
Fall/Winter
Intersession
Summer Day
Summer Evening
|
7
2
2
5
|
November 30
8
8
19
|
First term full course
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
November 5
|
First term half course
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
November 5
|
U and V courses offered by Education
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
November 30
|
First term quarter course (Q course offered by Education Pre-Service Sept. to Dec.)
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
October 15
|
First term, first quarter Q course
|
Fall/Winter |
5
|
10
|
First term, second quarter
|
Fall/Winter
|
5
|
10
|
R course
|
Intersession 6 week
Summer Day 3 week
Summer Day 6 week
Summer Evening
|
2
2
2
5
|
8
4
8
10
|
Full year half course
|
Fall*/Winter
Intersession
Summer Day
Summer Evening
|
7
2
2
5
|
November 30
8
8
19
|
Second term full course
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
March 7
|
Second term half course
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
March 7
|
Second term quarter course (S course offered by Education Pre-Service Jan. to Apr.)
|
Fall/Winter
|
7
|
February 15
|
Second term, first quarter S course
|
Fall/Winter
|
5
|
10
|
Second term, second quarter T course
|
Fall/Winter
Summer Evening
|
5
5
|
10
10
|
* NOTES:
1. Students in W accelerated language courses may transfer to the equivalent full year course with the permission of their Faculty prior to November 1.
2. Some of the quarter courses offered by the Richard Ivey School of Business do not fit into the standard timelines. For these courses, the last day to add a course will be ten (10) business days from and including the start date of the session; the last day to drop a course without penalty will be 50% of the way through the course (from and including the start date of the session) excluding Conference week.
3. For quarter courses in Kinesiology:
Q These courses will start the first Monday of the term; the last day to add the Q quarter course will be five (5) business days from and including the Monday start date; the last day to drop the Q quarter course without penalty will be ten (10) days from the Monday start date.
R" The start date will be tabulated as thirty-one (31) business days from the start of the Q session; the last day to add the r quarter course will be thirty-five (35) business days from the start of the Q session; the last day to drop the R quarter course without penalty will be forty (40) business days from the start of the Q session.
S These courses will start the first Monday of the term; the last day to add the S quarter course will be five (5) business days from and including the Monday start date; the last day to drop the S quarter course without penalty will be ten (10) days from the Monday start date.
T The start date will be tabulated as thirty-one (31) business days from the start of the S session; the last day to add the T quarter course will be thirty-five (35) business days from the start of the S session; the last day to drop the T quarter course without penalty will be forty (40) business days from the start date of the S session, excluding Conference week.
4. For H (8 week) and J (6 week) courses offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences in the Compressed Time Frame Nursing program, the last day to add a course will be five (5) business days from and including the start date of the session; the last day to drop a course without academic penalty will be ten (10) business days from the start date of the session.
Faculty of Law: Second Term Format
In the Faculty of Law, the add/drop period for the January courses is the first two days of the January Term, and the add/drop period for the February/March/April (FMA) courses is the first five days of the February/March/April (FMA) Term.
Adding and Dropping Courses SR.07-42
Faculty of Law S.98-079
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