Check deadlines carefully as they are strictly enforced. See §§11 and 22.1.

Student Responsibility: Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with program requirements and limitations as specified in the Calendar and for ensuring their programs are properly planned in accordance with degree specifications. Please read the Calendar carefully before registering in courses, and if you are in doubt about any regulations pertaining to your program, consult the Undergraduate Student Services Office (6-5 Humanities, 492-4295, e-mail: arts.undergrad@ualberta.ca) for clarification.

Course Load Requirement: Normally, students in the Faculty of Arts take a full course load of 15 per term during Fall/Winter and may take up to 6 per term in Spring/Summer. However, it should be noted that in the BA program, there is no requirement that a full course load must be taken; students in that program may elect to carry a reduced course load without Faculty approval. Students in other Arts programs should consult the relevant department entry in §43.4 through §43.13 as well as their Department Advisor for advice on minimum course load requirements for those programs. A student is considered to be a full-time student when carrying a course load of 9 per term. Students are expected to select an appropriate course load taking into consideration work, family responsibilities, or other outside commitments, as well as regulations pertaining to eligibility for University and Faculty Awards.

In exceptional circumstances, and following completion of the first 30, acceleration to the maximum of 18 per term during Fall/Winter and 9 per term during Spring/Summer may be permitted by the Faculty; however, requests to accelerate are not granted to students who are not in Satisfactory Academic Standing (see §42.6).

As well, students who are not in Satisfactory Academic Standing are normally required by the Faculty to carry a reduced course load (i.e., less than 15 per term) during the Fall/Winter and may be prohibited from taking Spring/Summer courses until their academic performance improves and satisfactory standing is attained.

Students who have outstanding Fall/Winter deferred examinations to be written during the July deferred examination period (see §23.5.6) are also normally not permitted to register in any Summer Term courses. The successful completion of the outstanding deferred examination(s) must be the priority.

Failure to “drop” a course: Students who do not formally withdraw from a course but who are absent from the final examination without excuse [see §23.3(2)] will be given a mark of zero (0) on the final examination. The final grade in the course will then be determined by combining the appropriately weighted term grade and the assigned zero in the final examination, the mathematical result rounded to the lowest whole number. Students who register in a course but do not attend, do not submit term work or write term exams, and do not formally withdraw will receive a grade of F1.

Courses: Faculty of Arts courses are listed in §231, Course Listings, under the following subject headings:

Anthropology (ANTHR)

American Sign Language (ASL)

Arabic (ARAB)

Art (ART)

Art History (ART H)

Chinese (CHINA)

Classics (CLASS)

Community Service-Learning (CSL)

Comparative Literature (C LIT)

Danish (DANSK)

Design (DES)

Drama (DRAMA)

East Asian Studies (EASIA)

East European and Soviet Studies (INT D)

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)

Economics (ECON)

English (ENGL)

Film Studies (FS)

French Language and Literature (FREN)

German (GERM)

Greek (GREEK)

Hebrew (HEB)

Hindi (HINDI)

History (HIST)

Hungarian (HUNG)

Interdisciplinary Studies (INT D)

Italian (ITAL)

Japanese (JAPAN)

Korean (KOREA)

Latin (LATIN)

Latin American Studies (LA ST)

Linguistics (LING)

Middle Eastern and African Studies (MEAS)

Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS)

Music (MUSIC)

Norwegian (NORW)

Persian (PERS)

Philosophy (PHIL)

Polish (POLSH)

Political Science (POL S)

Portuguese (PORT)

Psychology (PSYCO)

Religious Studies (RELIG)

Russian (RUSS)

Scandinavian (SCAND)

Science, Technology and Society (STS)

Slavic and East European Studies (SLAV)

Sociology (SOC)

Spanish (SPAN)

Swahili (SWAH)

Swedish (SWED)

Tibetan (TIBET)

Ukrainian (UKR)

Women's Studies (W ST)

Writing (WRITE)

Writing Studies (WRS)

The following courses offered by the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences will be applied by students in the Faculty of Arts as arts courses rather than non-arts or science options:

AREC 450

AREC 473

AREC 482

AREC 485

AREC 487

R SOC 355

R SOC 450