The requirements
Every Honours BA and BSc asks for the same things:
- Credits
- 20.0 in total, at least 10.0 of them through Arts & Science.
- Level
- 13.0 at the 200 level or above, including 6.0 at the 300 level or above.
- Programs
- One Specialist, two Majors, or one Major and two Minors.
- GPA
- A cumulative GPA of 1.85 or higher.
- Breadth
- 4.0 credits spread across the five Breadth categories.
One course often counts toward several of these at once, so track them together. The Calendar's degree requirements page has the fine print, including how transfer credits count.
Choosing your programs
Most of your credits go to your programs. Specialists run 10.0 to 15.0 credits, Majors 6.0 to 8.5 and Minors 4.0. Two Majors, or a Major and two Minors, need 12.0 different credits between them, so a course shared by two programs only counts once.
You request programs in the term you reach 4.0 credits, which for most students is the end of first year. 120 of the 328 programs are limited enrolment, with required courses and often minimum grades, so your first-year courses decide which ones stay open to you. Browse them all in the program directory.
HBA or HBSc
Each program is labelled Arts or Science, and your programs decide which degree you receive. If they're all one kind, so is your degree. If you mix them you can usually choose, unless you have a Major and two Minors and the Major shares its kind with one of the Minors. Then that kind decides.
The Breadth Requirement
Breadth keeps your degree from sitting entirely inside your programs. You need 1.0 in each of four categories, or 1.0 in each of three and 0.5 in each of the other two. Program courses count too, so check what they already cover before you pick electives.
- Creative and Cultural Representations (1)1,398 courses
- Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)675 courses
- Society and its Institutions (3)1,620 courses
- Living Things and Their Environment (4)456 courses
- The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)513 courses
Planning with Atlas
Add your record from Degree Explorer or ACORN and Atlas checks it against these rules and each of your programs. Plans show what a change does to every requirement before you enrol. Anything that needs a person to decide, like a director's approval, is marked for you to confirm and never counted as done.