Using your Degree Works evaluation
Your Degree Works evaluation is a personalized checklist that compares your course history to the requirements for your program. It helps you track your progression by showing what you've completed, what's in progress, and what requirements you still need to satisfy before you can graduate. It can also be used to help you plan your registration for upcoming terms.
Degree Works makes it easy to track the specific requirements you need to complete, but should always be used alongside the academic calendar.
If you have any difficulties interpreting your evaluation or understanding a particular requirement, contact your academic adviser.
Introduction to Degree Works
Understanding your evaluation
Your evaluation consists of three main sections.
Header and controls
Summary information about your academic program and student status at UVic, as well as controls for how your evaluation is displayed.
If you're enrolled in more than one degree, diploma or certificate concurrently, you can switch between them.
Program requirements
The specific unit and course requirements for your program of study, as well as any other requirements you may need to satisfy before you can graduate, including:
- overall progress for your degree, diploma or certificate
- Academic Writing Requirement (AWR)
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faculty-specific requirements that apply to your program
- program requirements
- progress in co-operative education or work experience components
Summary information
Includes courses that you have taken but that have not been applied towards a specific program requirement (electives), as well as cross-listed, insufficient and excluded courses.
Courses in this section are not being used to fulfill a requirement within your program, but will be counted towards the minimum number of units required for your degree, certificate or diploma.
If you believe any course showing as an elective should instead be applied toward a specific requirement of your program, please contact your advising office to review your evaluation.
Courses are displayed on your evaluation in the form in which they were taken. Courses that have a cross-listing (that is, courses that are offered simultaneously under different department codes) will be identified here.
If you would like a course to be used in its cross-listed form (for example, for PSYC 370A to be used as LING370A), contact your academic adviser.
Courses that have been held out from your credential by an adviser will be displayed here. This can occur when you have completed more coursework than is required and courses have been approved to be held out from your program.
Frequently asked questions
General
- You should review your degree evaluation before and after registering for courses, prior to meeting with an adviser, any time after a change is made to your program (such as adding a minor) and before you apply to graduate.
- Your evaluation is automatically updated when a change is made to your declared program or course registration.
- The "calendar term" identifies the academic calendar that is being used with your degree evaluation. The requirements you see in your evaluation will match what was published in the calendar for that specific term.
- In some cases, it's possible to change your calendar term in order to change your program requirements.
- The @ symbol is used as a wildcard in Degree Works. Wildcards can appear in both the subject or the course number.
- For example, if a requirement says "PSYC 3@, 4@", you can complete it with any 300/400-level Psychology course.
- Contact your adviser if you believe any information on your evaluation is incorrect.
Programs
- If you are enrolled in more than one credential (such as a concurrent bachelor’s degree and certificate program) an evaluation will be available for each credential.
- Use the dropdown arrow on the Degree field in the header section of your evaluation to toggle between credentials.
- Degree Works can only show an evaluation for your current program.
- Contact your adviser if you want to see how any program changes would impact your academic progression.
Courses
- Degree Works attempts to find the best solution for your courses to satisfy program requirements. This may result in your evaluation placing courses where they will fit, but not necessarily where you expect them to be.
- Contact your adviser if you want to discuss how your courses have been applied within your evaluation.
- The following courses are not used in your evaluation:
- Failed and incomplete courses
- Other insufficient courses (repeated or with credit limitations)
- Excluded courses (based on restrictions in your program)
- Contact your adviser if you feel that any courses have been applied incorrectly.
- Failed and incomplete (N grade) courses cannot be used towards either university or program requirements.
- In most cases, repeated courses do not count towards university or program requirements.
- If you repeat a course that's required for your program, contact your adviser to discuss an adjustment to your evaluation.