Registration for undergraduate courses

• Review the relevant program planning worksheet to plan which courses to take and when.
• Before taking courses on a different timeline, check the prerequisites for any future courses.
  • Most of the core second-year Economics courses have MATH 100, 102, or 109 as a pre-requisite.
  • Consult our spreadsheet of 300-level Economics courses to make sure you have completed all the required prerequisites for the courses you want to take.
  • Consider contacting a faculty-level advisor, as some changes can extend the length of your program.
    • Academic Advising for Humanities, Science & Social Sciences
    • Or browse Academic Advisors by faculty
• Contact the Department of Economics Undergraduate Advisor if you have questions about specific course content.

•  This will give you access to your personalized degree evaluation report, make you eligible for Economics scholarship nominations and satisfy the program declaration prerequisite for ECON 225.
• If you’re in one of the faculties of Humanities, Science, or Social Sciences: Declare in the Faculties of Humanities, Science, or Social Sciences.
• If you’re in a different faculty and are adding to your program: Declare & manage in your existing faculty.
• If you’re in a different faculty but want to discontinue that program, you may need to first submit an application for a program change into a new faculty via undergraduate admissions and then once your new program starts you can declare in the Faculties of Humanities, Science, or Social Sciences.

• Review UVic's instructions for undergraduate course registration, including how to view your registration status; information about lecture, lab, and tutorial sections; how to build a course plan; and how to join a waitlist (and what happens).
• Register as soon as your time ticket opens – classes fill up quickly and waitlists are long. Remember to register for any labs associated with your lecture.
• Register for September and January courses at the same time in June.
• Make sure you have all the prerequisites and corequisites for your courses before you register.
  • Current course descriptions and their pre- or corequisites can be found under the Courses tab in the UVic Academic Calendar.
  • Make sure you are looking at the right Calendar for the session you are registering in, as sometimes prerequisites and corequisites change.
  • For new and visiting students, UVic has a period of time in which you are eligible to register while their transfer credit is still being evaluated. In mid-August, we will receive a report of students who are registered in courses and have at least one “missing prerequisite”and you will be dropped from those courses.
  • Review the prerequisite-related problems described below. Even if your record shows that you have the prerequisites, you may encounter problems with the registration system.

If any of the below situations apply to you, contact the Economics department by emailing econreg@uvic.ca to request a prerequisite override as soon as the timetable for the relevant registration period is available. Failure to do so increases the likelihood that you will end up on a waitlist. You must email from an email address on your student record, and include your VNumber, each course number, and the term.

• If a course has a minimum grade for one of the prerequisites and you have a Duplicate or Mutually Exclusive notation beside that course on your unofficial transcript, email econreg@uvic.ca and describe your situation.
• If a course has a minimum grade for one of the prerequisites and you transferred that prerequisite course from a different institution, email econreg@uvic.ca and describe your situation.
• If you are trying to register for ECON 225 and have declared your program in Economics, but your program has not yet been processed by Academic Advising. Include a screenshot from www.uvic.ca/declareme showing your pending program declaration (see sample). Make sure that your name and student number are clearly visible in this screenshot, along with your declared program in Economics.
  • If you are not eligible to declare your program until the start of class, email econreg@uvic.ca and explain your situation.
• If a course has a prerequisite that you have a waiver or substitution on your degree evaluation (CAPP or Degree Works), email econreg@uvic.ca and describe your situation.
  • You may be eligible for a waiver or substitution for ECON 225 on your degree evaluation if your major is in a writing-intensive discipline (for example, English, Geography, History, or Political Science) or if you have a background as a writer (for example, reporter for a newspaper). Email Academic Advising for Humanities, Science & Social Sciences or meet with the Economics Undergraduate Advisor if one of these applies to you.
• Specific to Summer Session: You are trying to register for a course in Term 3 and you are taking its prerequisite in Term 2 (for example, ECON 245 in Term 2 and ECON 246 in Term 3) email econreg@uvic.ca and describe your situation.
  • The Winter Session does not require a similar override. If you want to register in a January course that has a prerequisite in the September term, register in the prerequisite first.
• If you have completed a course at another institution and have sent your official transcript to UVic, you can also provide the Department of Economics with proof of your grade for transfer credit courses.  Email econreg@uvic.ca a screenshot of your unofficial transcript that shows your full name and student number. Overrides will only be processed for graded transfer credits, so if you are taking a course at another institution you will need to wait until you have a grade before requesting an override.
• If you have an incomplete in a course that is a prerequisite and have scheduled a deferred exam with your instructor, email econreg@uvic.ca, explain which courses are affected and include the date of your deferred exam.
  • Otherwise, please drop the course so that other students can register. If you do not, you will be dropped from the course when the department performs its prerequisite check (usually in the first week of the term that the course is scheduled).

 Requests for overrides must be submitted by email only. In-person and phone requests will be redirected to email and will be dealt with in the order they are received.

Careful consideration is given in setting course prerequisites, and they normally constitute essential background to a course.  If your academic background is from a different program or at a different institution and you think it includes equivalents to the stated prerequisites, you can fill out and submit the Prerequisite Waiver form and carefully explain why you believe the courses you have taken are equivalent to the prerequisites. Submit this form to econreg@uvic.ca.

Overrides must be processed for each course every term. Overrides are only processed by the Department, not by Academic Advising or the Registrar's office.

Waitlists

• You may see a ‘C’ when you register for a course. This indicates the course capacity is full and you will need to put yourself on the waitlist. More information on waitlists can be found on the University of Victoria How to register for courses page.
• Attend the class when you are on the waitlist.
• Waitlists expire after the last add date. The list will remain visible for a few days; however, offers are not active and will not be sent out. Please stop attending the class if you have not received an offer by the last add date. 
• Please contact the Undergraduate Advisor immediately if you are:
  • in the final year of your degree program AND
  • you are waitlisted for one last Economics course that you require to graduate

Labs

• Please register, at the same time, in both a lecture section and an associated lab section if the course has labs.
• For larger classes, you may need to look at more than one page to see all lab sections.
• Labs do not have waitlists. If you are in the lecture but you are not able to register in a lab, continue to attend the lab that fits your schedule until you are able to register.
  • • Review the course outline for any course-specific instructions.
    • If there are still no lab spots available after the last add date, contact the Economics office at econreg@uvic.ca and explain your situation.
• Please do not register in a lab if you are waitlisted in a lecture. If you do, you will be dropped from the lab by the Department.

If you do receive a registration offer for the lecture section, rest assured that there are enough lab spots for all registered students. Please follow the instructions in the second bullet/paragraph above.

• If you need to re-take a course to pass it or to achieve a required grade, please read the Economics department policy on repeating courses on our Course policies page.

Exchange programs

The International Centre for Students (ICS) Exchange Program allows current students to study at one of our 70+ partner universities around the world while gaining credits at UVic and paying UVic tuition fees.

Transferring credits from other institutions

Before you take a course at another institution, review the requirements and process from Academic Advising for Humanities, Science & Social Sciences: Transfer & exchange credit. Or, if you are in a different faculty, check with your faculty-level advising.

Submit a Request for Letter of Permission for the small fee to faculty-level advising before you register for the class.  Otherwise, there is a larger fee to evaluate your transcript later on.  You must submit official transcripts to UVic, even if you did not complete the course, or the university will consider it failure to disclose.  More details are available from faculty-level advising.

Beware that if this course is a prerequisite to another Economics course that you want to take at UVic later, you will not be given a prerequisite override until you have a grade for the prerequisite course.

Visit our Forms page for information regarding prerequisite waivers, repeating course requests, letters of permission, etc.