Hi Aska, I’m a first year student at the st george campus and I’m a little confused about POSt enrolment.. when do I enrol and where?
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hey there,
you enrol after you’ve accumulated a minimum of 4.0 credits (that’s 4 full-year courses or 8 half-year courses). for most people, that’s after the winter term of their first year.
POSt enrolment opens every year between April and September, so if you’re in first year now and you complete at least 4.0 credits by the end of next term, you’ll have to sign up for one specialist or two majors or one major and two minors before september 2016. these, by the way, are the acceptable combinations of POSts to receive a degree (there are some other allowable POSts, like two majors and a minor, one specialist and a minor, etc. but the ones i mentioned are the standard options).
you enrol on ACORN. all you’ll do is put through a request for each of the POSt(s) you’re interested in, and then you’ll either be accepted or not. depending on the POSt, you may or may not need to complete certain prerequisites to get in – i would recommend taking a look at the course calendar to make sure you are taking the appropriate courses for whichever POSt(s) you’re interested in.
type 3 POSts (as opposed to type 1, 2 or 2L’s) will require an additional application along with the button-click on ACORN. you can see what type your subject POSt(s) of interest is/are here.
and i think that’s it for my crash course in POSts! if you have more questions in the course of your exploration into the world of POSts – and you almost certainly will, they’re a pain in the a&$ administratively – just lemme know!
cheers,
aska