hey there,
true to form, the university of toronto is as sprawling online as it is in person. there are as many separate websites related to this school as there are individual uoft buildings, and they’re just as hard to navigate.
in fact, i’m always surprised that anyone can find askastudent at all?in this mess.
however, there are a few key pages which most students go back to over and over, so i’m just gonna list them now for any first-years (or extraordinarily absent upper-years) who feel like they’re drowning out there in the academic cybersea.
this document lists courses, course descriptions, the requirements for every?subject POSt at the faculty of arts & science, and the breadth requirement each course meets. read it?a lot.
also in the calendar: degree requirements?for B.Com., H.B.A. and H.B.Sc. students.
also also in the calendar: rules and regulations (contains information about literally every administrative thing related to your academics, including but not limited to: extra courses, credit/no-credit, late withdrawal, petitions, the dean’s list, and academic standing i.e. probation and suspension stuff). this page is like your daily multivitamin of essential uoft information.
here are the course calendars for other faculties at uoft, and for the other two campuses:
second only to the course calendar in usefulness, the timetable lists all the courses offered in a certain session, as well as the days/times they’re offered, and the instructor of the course. don’t be put off by the fact that it looks like it glitched out and is only showing the skeleton of its HTML code – this website is the faculty of arts and science’s?holy book. (here are utm‘s and utsc‘s timetables).
3. fees
the fees website is its own snarl of interconnected pages, so here are a few important highlights:
- the deadlines to pay the minimum payment to register
- how to pay the university
- refund schedules AND fees for 2014-2015 for every college in the faculty of arts & science
4.?student life
student life’s main page is a springboard into a host of useful departments at uoft, like accessibility services, the first nations house, and hart house. give that a quick browse for services that may be relevant to you.
and here is ulife’s main page, which lists pretty much every club, organization, committee and team you at this university. you’d be hard pressed to find nothing that piques your interest here.
good luck on your internet odyssey, my intrepid warriors.
cheers,
aska