BASc Course Selection & Waivers

 

Course selection period information

Begins June 18, 2024:

Fall 2024 undergraduate course selection will begin Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at 8:00 a.m. based on the course selection windows (number of credits completed and in-progress).

To find your selection window: see: Course Selection Windows   

Select courses ASAP!!!
Select courses as soon as possible after your window opens. NOTE: FAILURE TO DO SO MAY RESULT IN NOT BEING ABLE TO REGISTER IN NEEDED AND WANTED COURSES. 

If a course is full:
If a course is full when you go onto WebAdvisor, please check WebAdvisor repeatedly again later and register when spaces become available. Enrolment of courses is managed by opening blocks of spots at a time rather than immediately opening to the full capacity. 

If after a few days of checking, there still isn’t space in a course, contact the person managing its enrolments:

  • For FRAN courses (FRHD and some NUTR) contact the Undergraduate Program Assistant, email: fran.undergraduate@uoguelph.ca
  • For other courses see the course contact list.

Ends: September 13, 2024

Course selection will continue until Friday, September 13, 2024. Please note failure to register early may result in not being able to register in needed and wanted courses.

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FRAN courses available in current selection period

**Continue to monitor WebAdvisor as sometimes a spot may open before the last day to add courses.

Fall 2024 Courses Being Offered (Updated May. 31)

FRHD*1010*01 Human Development: Priority Access to BAS and BASc majors and first year students starting July 3, 4, 5, 2024 until  July 15, 2024.

FRHD*1100*DE Life, Health & Well-Being: Priority Access to BAS and BASc majors and first year students starting July 3, 4, 5, 2024 until July 15, 2024.

FRHD*2060*01 Adult Development & Aging: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024.

FRHD*2100*DE Development of Human Sexuality: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024.

FRHD*2110*01 Inclusive Practises for Children with Exceptionalities: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024.

FRHD*2270*01 Childhood Development: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024..

FRHD*2280*01 Adolescent Development: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024.

FRHD*3060*01 Principles of Social Gerontology:  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors June 28 to July 4, 2024. Access for all programs July 5, 2024..

FRHD*3070*01 Research Methods: Family Studies: Restricted to BASc majors only.

FRHD*3090*01 Poverty & Health: :  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors June 28 to July 4, 2024. Access for all programs July 5, 2024.

FRHD*3180*01 Ovservation & Assessment Laboratory: Restricted to BASc majors only.  

FRHD*3200 Practicum I: Child: Restricted to BASc: CYF, CYF:C, CSTU majors only. Contact the BASc Practicum Coordinator if not preregistered. Students cannot self-register on WebAdvisor for this Practicum.

FRHD*3290 Practicum I: Family Studies and Human Development: Restricted to BASc: ADEV, ADEV:C, FSHD majors only. Contact the BASc Practicum Coordinator if not preregistered. Students cannot self-register on WebAdvisor for this Practicum.

FRHD*3400 Communication and Counselling:   Access for BASc majors and FCS minors June 28 to July 4, 2024. Access for all programs July 5, 2024..

FRHD*3500 Research Internship: Instructor consent required. You need to find a FRAN faculty member who will supervise you for this course. Dr. Olga smoliak is open to taking on students. Please contact this faculty member directly to express your interest in working with them.

FRHD*4020 Family Theory:  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors June 25 to 27, 2024. Access for all programs June 28, 2024.

FRHD*4140 Selected Topics in FRHD: SEE BELOW FOR TOPIC ON OFFER. Restricted to BASc majors only. Priority Access to BASc FSHD students until June 24, 2024. Access to all BASc majors on June 25, 2024.

FRHD*4140 with Dr. Adam Davies Title: Disrupting and Dismantling Child Development Theories: Socially Just and Critical Theoretical Approaches in Early Years Education   Description: This course will examine critical theoretical approaches to (re)conceptualizing children, childhood, and youth by engaging with critiques and unruly disruptions of traditional developmental psychological theories and the relevance of such critiques in early childhood studies and education. As such, this course will engage with queer and trans theories, mad studies, critical disability studies, and critical race theories and their relevance in critiquing and interrupting quantitative and developmental approaches to childhood and education.

FRHD*4190 Assessment in Gerontology:  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors June 25 to 27, 2024. Access for all programs June 28, 2024.

FRHD*4210 Senior Seminar in Early Education & Care: Restricted to students in CYF, CYF:C or CSTU majors only.

FRHD*4330 Practicum II Child: Restricted to students in CYF, CYF:C or CSTU major. Contact the BASc Practicum Coordinator if not preregistered. Students cannot self-register on WebAdvisor for this Practicum.

FRHD*4810 Thesis I: Instructor consent required. You need to find a faculty member who will supervise you for this course. Dr. Olga Smoliak is open to taking on students. Please contact this faculty member directly to express your interest in working with them.

FRHD*4910 Thesis II: Instructor consent required. You need to find a faculty member who will supervise you for this course.

NUTR*1010*DE Introduction to Nutrition:  Priority Access to BAS and BASc majors and first year students starting July 3, 4, 5, 2024 until July 15, 2024.

NUTR*2050 Nutrition through the Lifecycle: Priority Access for BASc majors until July 3, 2024.  Access for BASc majors and FCS minors July 4 to 9, 2024. Access for all programs July 10, 2024.

NUTR*2500 Introduction to Food System: : Priority Access for AHN majors until July 3, 2024. Access to all BASc majors July 4, 2024. Access for all programs July 8, 2024.

NUTR*3500 Research Internship: Instructor consent required. You need to find a FRAN faculty member who will supervise you for this course.  Dr. Dalia El Khoury  has spots available to take on students. Please contact them directly to express your interest.

NUTR*4010 Nutritional Assessment: Restricted to BASc AHN major only.

NUTR*4040 Clinical Nutrition II: Restricted to BASc AHN major only.

NUTR*4070 Nutrition Communication and Knowledge Translation:  Access for all programs June 28, 2024.

NUTR*4810 Thesis I: Instructor consent required. You need to find a faculty member who will supervise you for this course, Dr. Kathryn Walton,  Dr. Dalia El Khoury  and Dr. Brian Lo are open to taking on students. Please contact these faculty member directly to express your interest in working with them.

NUTR*4910 Thesis II: Instructor consent required. You need to find a faculty member who will supervise you for this course.

Required Substitutions

There are courses that are no longer offered but that still show as required in some program plans.  

For those courses that are no longer offered (see list below) students must take a substitute course (listed below).  Once you have a final grade in the substitute course, email bascprog@uoguelph.ca and your program counsellor will submit a form to have the substitution show on your evaluation.  

FRHD*2260 Infant Development - not offered - take any FRHD elective at any level to substitute.  

FRHD*3150 Strategies for Behaviour Change - not offered - take a 3000 level FRHD elective to substitute

FRHD*3250  Practicum I: Youth - not offered  -  take FRHD*3290 which includes both youth and adult practicum options.

FRHD*4260 Social Policies - not offered -take FRHD*4320 to substitute as it contains the content from FRHD*4260.

FRHD*4310 Professional Issues - not offered - AHN students take NUTR*1020 to substitute. ADEV, CYF, CSTU, and FSHD students take any FRHD elective at any level to substitute

FRHD*4340 Practicum II: Youth - not offered  -  take FRHD*4290 which includes both youth and adult practicum options.

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Waivers for FRAN courses (FRHD and some NUTR)

In the Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition (FRAN), waivers and enrolment are centrally managed by the Undergraduate Program Assistant, fran.undergraduate@uoguelph.ca. from Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00.   
Instructors in the FRAN department do NOT sign course waivers.   

When requesting enrolment information or a waiver for a course:  

  1. Use your uoguelph.ca account   
  2. State you student ID# and program.   
  3. Download the Course Waiver Request form.

Helpful tips for about obtaining a signed course waiver:

  • Waivers are not required for 1st year courses. 
  • Some courses are restricted to BASc majors only. Waivers will not be signed for courses that are restricted in this way.
  • For other courses, there are Priority Access restrictions, which may be lifted during the course selection period depending on available space.  Details of which courses have Priority Access restrictions are at “FRAN courses available in current selection period ”.  Note: that we will not sign course waivers while Priority Access restrictions are in place.
  • In FRAN courses/sections/classes that are full cannot be overloaded beyond the planned number of available seats/spaces. 

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Waivers and registration for other courses

Neither the BASc Program Counselling Office nor the Undergraduate Program Assistant can help you get into courses not offered by our department (FRAN). You need to contact the department offering the course for help. Here is the list of contacts for other courses on campus.  If a course is not listed in the contact table at the preceding link, contact the professor teaching the course for a waiver.

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Late Adds

Late adding courses is not allowed in FRAN (i.e. for FRHD or NUTR courses) because it does not foster student success. The published deadline for adding courses is firm.  There are only 12 weeks of classes and missing one week puts a student significantly behind.  Even if you see a space open up in a course, we will not add you to the course if it is after the last day to add a course.    The late add policy in the academic calendar is for clearly defined rare and exceptional circumstances and not for getting into a course that was full during course selection.

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Overloading credits (taking more that 2.5)

Taking more that 2.5 credits in a semester or credit overloading is not something we in FRAN advise or support as it does not foster learning, academic success, or good mental health.  We especially do not support overloading in a practicum semester because practicums are a heavy load. The rare time we consider permitting a credit overload is if a student has exceptional need, e.g. they are in their last semester and need one course to graduate. For this reason plan your courses carefully assuming you can't overload. That said, you can try overloading yourself on the last day of the add period without special permission if there is still space in the course and you have the pre-requisites. 

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Overloading a class/section (registering for a full course)

In FRAN courses/sections/classes that are full cannot be overloaded beyond the planned number of available seats/spaces. This is because of fire code regulations in the classroom and the number of teaching assistants who can mark assignments limited by departmental budgets.

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