Calendar Updates

Fall 2024 to Summer 2025 Calendar Updates

The 2024-25 UTSC Academic Calendar was first published on May 23, 2024. Any updates or corrections following the initial publication are noted on this page.

Date of ChangeImpacted Academic Regulations, Courses, Programs & Description of ChangeRationale for Change
May 31, 2024

Change to academic regulations regarding deferring final examinations

  • To take effect September 1, 2024

Change to the deferred exam petition deadline to provide alignment with the deadline currently used by the University of Toronto Mississauga and the one recently approved by the Faculty of Arts & Science.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

Change to academic regulations regarding petitions for withdrawal from courses without academic penalty (WDR)

  • To take effect September 1, 2024

The specification of the late withdrawal petition deadline is meant to provide alignment with the deadlines currently used by both the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Faculty of Arts & Science.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

SCMAJ15902: MAJOR PROGRAM IN MUSIC AND CULTURE (ARTS)

  • Information regarding MUZA80H3 placement test updated.

SCMIN1590: MINOR PROGRAM IN MUSIC AND CULTURE (ARTS)

  • Information regarding MUZA80H3 placement test updated.

Test placement details clarified.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

SCSPE11262: SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN STUDIO ART (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements updated. 

SCMAJ0617: MAJOR PROGRAM IN ARTS AND MEDIA MANAGEMENT (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements updated.

SCMAJ2030: MAJOR PROGRAM IN PUBLIC LAW (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements updated. 

SCMIN2150: MINOR PROGRAM IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements updated.

SCMINMDS: MINOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA STUDIES (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements updated.

Provides more clarity.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

SCSPEJOU: SPECIALIST (JOINT) PROGRAM IN JOURNALISM (ARTS)

  • Enrolment requirements and program completion requirements updated.

Provides more clarity.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

SCMAJJSS: MAJOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA, JOURNALISM AND DIGITAL CULTURES - Journalism Studies Stream (ARTS)

  • Program title updated: MAJOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES – Journalism Studies Stream (ARTS)
  • New subject POSt code: SCMAJJSS2
  • Completion requirements updated.

SCMAJMSS: MAJOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA, JOURNALISM AND DIGITAL CULTURES - Media Studies Stream (ARTS)

  • Program title updated: MAJOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES – Media Studies Stream (ARTS)
  • New subject POSt code: SCMAJMSS2
  • Completion requirements updated. 

To ensure accuracy throughout the Calendar.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, MEDIA AND CULTURE'S NEW COURSES:

  • JOUB21H3: Witnessing and Bearing Witness
  • JOUC22H3: Advanced Video and Documentary Storytelling
  • MDSB11H3: Media and the Arts
  • MDSB13H3: Media Studies in the Global South
  • MDSB16H3: Indigenous Media Studies
  • MDSB17H3: Popular Culture and Media Studies
  • MDSB21H3: Media and Society
  • MDSB22H3: Feminist Media Studies
  • MDSB23H3: Media and Militarization
  • MDSB31H3: Media and Institutions
  • MDSB34H3: Comparative Media Industries
  • MDSB35H3: Platform Labour
  • MDSC10H3: Advanced Studies in Media and the Arts
  • MDSC12H3: Trans-Feminist Queer Media Studies
  • MDSC20H3: Advanced Studies in Media and Society
  • MDSC23H3: Black Media Studies
  • MDSC26H3: Media, Technology & Disability Justice
  • MDSC27H3: Digital Research Ethics
  • MDSC28H3: Data and Artificial Intelligence
  • MDSC30H3: Advanced Studies in Media and Institutions
  • MDSC31H3: Platforms and Cultural Production
  • MDSC32H3: Chinese Media and Politics
  • MDSD30H3: Senior Seminar: Topics in Media and Institutions
  • MUZA81H3: Introduction to Music Industry and Technology
  • THRB41H3: Theatre-Making with Communities: A Survey
  • VPHB69H3: Back to the Land: Restoring Embodied and Affective Ways of Knowing

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH'S NEW COURSE:

  • ENGD90H3: Creative Writing: Genre Bending and Other Methods of Breaking Form

DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES' NEW COURSE:

  • GASD13H3: Living within Violence: Exploring South Asia

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY'S NEW COURSES:

  • CITB05H3: Researching the City: An Introduction to Methods
  • CITB07H3: Introduction to Global Urbanisms
  • CITC54H3: City Studies Field Trip Course

DEPARTMENT OF PHILSOPHY'S NEW COURSE:

  • PHLC45H3: Advanced Topics in Philosophy
     

New out-of-cycle courses for Fall 2024.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA'S COURSE RENUMBERING:

  • JOUC21H3 renumbered from (JOUB05H3)
  • MDSA10H3 renumbered from (MDSA01H3)
  • MDSA11H3 renumbered from (MDSC63H3)
  • MDSB12H3 renumbered from (MDSB62H3)
  • MDSB14H3 renumbered from (MDSB01H3)
  • MDSB20H3 renumbered from (MDSB10H3)
  • MDSB29H3 renumbered from (MDSB61H3) 
  • MDSB30H3 renumbered from (MDSB15H3)
  • MDSB33H3 renumbered from (MDSB03H3)
  • MDSC13H3 renumbered from (MDSB63H3)
  • MDSC22H3 renumbered from (MDSC35H3)
  • MDSC24H3 renumbered from (MDSC66H3) 
  • MDSC25H3 renumbered from (MDSC80H3)
  • MDSC29H3 renumbered from (MDSC71H3)
  • MDSC33H3 renumbered from (MDSC65H3)
  • MDSC34H3 renumbered from (MDSC60H3)
  • MDSC37H3 renumbered from (MDSC62H3)
  • MDSD10H3 renumbered from (MDSD01H3)
  • MDSD20H3 renumbered from (MDSD02H3)
  • THRC21H3 renumbered from (THRB40H3)
  • THRC24H3 renumbered from (THRC43H3)  

Renumbering courses to create accurate course sequence for enrolment.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA'S COURSE RETIREMENTS:

  • ACMB01H3: Critical Reading, Thinking and Writing for ACM Programs
  • JOUC20H3: Emerging Tools and Technology
  • JOUC63H3: Media Ethics
  • MDSB03H3: Advertising and Consumer Cultures

Courses are no longer being offered.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA'S COURSE CHANGES:

  • JOUC60H3 Prerequisites/ corequisites/exclusions/alias course numbers updated to reflect renumbered courses.  
  • JOUC62H3 Prerequisites/ corequisites/exclusions/alias course numbers updated to reflect renumbered courses. 
  • JOUC80H3 Prerequisites/ corequisites/exclusions/alias course numbers updated to reflect renumbered courses. 
  • MDSA02H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated
  • MUZA80H3 course description change
  • MUZB02H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • MUZB80H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • THRB21H3 course description changed
  • THRB22H3 course description changed
  • THRB32H3 course description changed
  • THRB20H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • THRB50H3 course description changed
  • THRC20H3 course description changed
  • VPAA10H3 course description changed
  • VPAA12H3 course description changed
  • VPAB13H3 course description changed
  • VPAB16H3 course description changed
  • VPAB17H3 course description changed
  • VPAB18H3 course description changed
  • VPHB63H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • VPHB74H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • VPAC13H3 course description changed
  • VPAC15H3 course description changed
  • VPAC17H3 course description changed
  • VPAC18H3 course description changed
  • VPHC45H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated
  • VPHC73H3 title, description, and prerequisites updated 
  • VPAD10H3 course description changed
  • VPHC72H3 Prerequisites/ corequisites/exclusions/alias course numbers updated to reflect renumbered courses.

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE'S COURSE CHANGES:

  • POLB30H3 course description changed
  • POLB40H3 course description changed
  • POLC11H3 course description changed
  • POLC12H3 course description changed
  • POLC13H3 course description changed
  • POLC32H3 course description changed
  • POLC33H3 course description changed
  • POLC34H3 course description changed
  • POLC36H3 course description changed
  • POLC38H3 course description changed
  • POLC39H3 course description changed
  • POLC56H3 course description changed
  • POLC78H3 course description changed
  • POLD30H3 course description changed
  • POLD38H3 course description changed
  • POLD42H3 course description changed
  • POLD44H3 course description changed
  • POLD45H3 course description changed
  • POLD56H3 course description changed
  • POLD46H3 course description changed
  • POLB57H3 course description changed
  • POLC30H3 course description changed
  • POLC35H3 course description changed
  • POLD31H3 course description changed
  • POLD46H3 course description changed
     

Provides clarity.

Approval by Academic Affairs Committee on May 27, 2024.

May 31, 2024

SCMINAGS: MINOR PROGRAM IN AGING AND SOCIETY (ARTS)

  • Program completion requirements corrected
Correction of typo for students interested in combining the Minor with the Major/Major Co-op in Health Studies – Health Policy
July 2, 2024Section text of Food Studies page of the Academic Calendar updatedUpdates in response to the administrative transfer of existing Food Studies courses and Minor program from the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies to the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, effective July 1, 2024
July 19, 2024

SPECIALIST PROGRAM IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT - Management Strategy Stream (BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)

  • Program completion requirements corrected
Correction of typo for students interested in obtaining the Strategy, Government and Society concentration within the Management Strategy Stream
August 13, 2024PSYB80H3 - Psychology in ContextNote added to inform students that this course uses a Credit/No Credit grading scheme.
October 18, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, CULTURE AND MEDIA'S NEW COURSES:

  • MBTB13H3: Songwriting 2
  • MBTB41H3: Introduction to Audio Engineering
  • MBTB50H3: Music Business Fundamentals
  • MBTC62H3: Advanced Sound Mixing and Editing
  • MBTC63H3: Advanced Sound Production and Recording
  • MBTC70H3: Copyright, Royalties, Licensing, and Publishing
  • MBTC72H3: Advanced Music Business

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES' NEW COURSE:

  • GASC48H3: Partition in South Asia

New Winter 2025 out-of-cycle courses.

Approved by Academic Affairs Committee on October 15, 2024