2024 Summer Session

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Summer Course Load

The maximum course load for all student during the Summer session is 1.0 FCE, or two half-credit courses.  For the summer, this does NOT include any practicum courses.  To enrol into a Summer practicum course, please connect with the Practicum Office for details and instructions.

Overload (taking more than the maximum course load) requests are approved only for students who need the extra course in order to complete program requirements within the same term. Please contact the Registrar’s Office for those requests.

Enrolment Dates

ACORN courses enrolments will open in phases:

Fees and Registration Status

Because the course of study in many graduate units is program/student specific and often cannot be described in terms of a specific number of courses, and because graduate education more often than not results from the sum of experience encountered during the program, School of Graduate Studies fees are assessed on a program basis rather than on the number of courses taken.

Did you know…?

Graduate degree students who paid fees for the previous Fall or Winter session do not pay fees for the Summer session. You read that right! For students who are continuing on to the summer session, you may enrol into courses without extra fees.

Also, your enrolment status (eg. full-time vs part-time) is set by your program attendance status, and you are enrolled in at least a 60% course load (or at least a 40% with an OSAP profile disability).  That means you can indicate that you are in full-time attendance if you are taking at least 1 course. Only the Advanced Standing option has a part-time option.  You can verify your status on the Enrol & Manage screen of ACORN.

This also means that enrolment into summer courses make you eligible for Summer OSAP (or other government funding).  Again, you may indicate full-time attendance on your OSAP application if your ACORN program attendance status also indicates full-time and you are enrolled into at least 1 course.

Accommodation Requests

For students who may not be able to enrol into courses at the beginning of their respective enrolment opening times for accessibility, medical or religious reasons may request for consideration.  These requests are considered in a similar manner as an Academic Consideration, and must be done by the deadline state below.

Approved reasons and required documentation

Non-approved reasons

• Travel
• Work
• Practicum
• Other academic activity
• No internet access

For non-approved reasons, a solution would be for students to ask another person to enrol them by proxy.

Remember, you can add courses to your cart prior to the enrolment opening time so that you can enrol in them without searching for them again on enrolment day. Visit the ACORN how-to pages for instructions to:

• Add a course to the enrolment cart
• Enrol in a course form the enrolment cart

Process

To request an accommodation student must complete and submit the Summer course Enrolment Accommodation Request form, including uploading required documentation. This is an MS Office Form, and requires your utoronto sign-in to validate access within University of Toronto.

Dates and Deadlines

Note that the deadlines for request submissions are firm.  Should student miss the submission deadline, they will be able to enrol into courses on their own via ACORN.

MSW AS and MSW Year 2 students (who need 2 or less courses to graduate in November 2024)

PhD and MSW Year 1 students (planning to graduate in  2025 or later)

Course Planner Tool

To help MSW students plan their academic progression the following Excel tool has been created. Note that it functions best when opened in the Desktop version of Excel, and contains macros. You will also need to login to your utoronto account to access the tool.

Also, it is only to help map the number of courses to take each session.  There are other resources, such as Degree Explorer (and the included Planner tab there), to help with program specific courses and schedules.

At this time this tool is meant for the the MSW 2YR and AS programs only.

Course Planner Tool

Students can also use Degree Explorer for program specific requirements and tracking.