September 2014. Enrolment in July was under your Faulty of Arts and Science (FAS) registration for the 2014-2015 Fall-Winter session.
The actual transfer on ROSI will take place after all Fall course enrolment is complete and after the Second Round of subject POSt application and enrolment for VIS programs has been completed - October, 2014. Students who choose to transfer do not need to do anything to transfer their courses over; students will be transferred over with their courses. After the transfer, their registration will be under FALD and students may add or drop courses as usual.
Students who transfer will be full members of FALD and will no longer be FAS students effective the 2014-2015 Fall-Winter session. Sessions when such students were registered in FAS will still show on their academic record and transcript as Faculty of Arts and Science registrations.
The cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of students transferring will be carried over from FAS to FALD and continue to be calculated in the same manner, and continue to be cumulative on the entire academic record as it was in FAS.
When they graduate, those students transferring will graduate with a degree from the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. The diploma will be signed by the Chancellor and the Dean of John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
NOTE 1: The Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA) will NOT be available in November 2014 for students who transfer. Students intending to convocate in November 2014 should stay in FAS and NOT transfer to FALD. Students must complete at least one course under a FALD registration in order to graduate from FALD. Those not intending to complete further courses before graduating should remain in FAS.
FALD ONLY offers the Honours Bachelor of Arts.
NOTE 1: FALD does NOT offer an Honours Bachelor of Science degree. Students with one Science (Major/Specialist) program in addition to their Visual Studies Major/Specialist (Arts) program and who wish to graduate with the HBSc must stay in FAS to do so.
NOTE 2: Upon graduation, the transcript will indicate Honours Bachelor of Arts in Visual Studies; the diploma will indicate Honours Bachelor of Arts.
Students remaining in FAS may complete their Visual Studies subject POSt (or change to other POSts as usual). Students transferring to FALD must complete their Visual Studies program (or their Architectural Studies program if they are enrolled in that) to graduate from FALD, as well as other subject POSt(s) to make up the minimum program configuration for the Honours degree.
Students transferring to FALD will bring the relevant program requirements with them, i.e. the program requirements that apply are those in effect when you entered the program in FAS. Although the Visual Studies program requirements will no longer be listed in the FAS Calendar, FAS students in the Visual Studies POSt will still be able to complete that subject POSt in FAS.
Students transferring over to FALD may complete FAS POSts they were enrolled in when they transferred (i.e. the non-VIS or ARC POSts transfer over with them), or they may add or change POSts with the same access to FAS non-VIS POSts as though they were still in FAS (with a few exceptions - see topic #10 Ineligible POSts).
Only FAS students are eligible to enter the Rotman Commerce program, and the Major or Specialist programs in Computer Science. FALD students cannot enrol in these programs.
Students transferring must complete the HBA in Visual Studies degree requirements in the FALD Calendar; however, these will be exactly the same as FAS HBA degree requirements, EXCEPT that FALD degree requirements have the Visual Studies subject POSt as a mandatory element in the program requirement portion.
Breadth Requirements, Breadth classifications and Transfer Credits including Exclusions, Extras and CR/NCR requested courses will be carried over from FAS to FALD for those who transfer.
FALD has no additional course requirements that will apply to those who transfer, other than the requirements as they are currently in FAS.
Students who transfer will retain access to FAS courses and POSts as though they had remained in FAS. FALD may develop new courses in subsequent years and Visual Studies students who remain in FAS will have access to those courses once they come online.
Students transferring to FALD will have enrolment windows that are simultaneous with equivalent Faculty of Arts and Science students and their POSts will be included in the Enrolment Indicators for relevant FAS courses, including those for their non-VIS POSts.
Students remaining in FAS will have their fees calculated in the usual way. Students transferring to FALD will pay the same academic/tuition fees as though they had remained in FAS. That is, the program fee amount is set based on the cohort to which a student belongs: fees may rise each year by a limited amount and each year's cohort has a tuition fee that follows them through with the applicable increases. This academic/tuition fee amount will carry over from FAS to FALD for the various cohorts. (See also #17 below).
All students transferring from FAS to FALD will have their fees assessed by the program fee method.
NOTE 1: The FALD program fee method will NOT be the same as the FAS method currently applied to Visual Studies students in FAS. It will be the normal UofT program fee method that applies to students in Professional Faculties such as Engineering, Phys. Ed. and Music, as well as to Commerce and Computer Science students. The amount will NOT be the higher Commerce or Computer Science amount, but the method of applying the fees will be the same as for those groups who have traditionally paid a program fee. The rules for this type of program fee are slightly different than for FAS Program Fee. Students may view the details of this in the Registration Instructions & Timetable under Commerce and Computer Science, and on the Student Accounts website. Put briefly, the usual FAS Program Fee is assessed by a "frozen" course load that is determined on the last day to add F/Y courses in September so that those with F+Y courses loads of 3.0 or greater credits are assessed the Program Fee, regardless of subsequent changes in course load. On the other hand, the traditional professional faculty program fee is determined by whether the student's course load (F+Y+S) is Full Time or Part Time on the last date to add courses in September. If their course load is Full-time, they are assessed the program fee; if it is Part-time, they are assessed fees on a per course basis.
Students remaining in FAS will pay relevant FAS incidentals, including those paid by all St. George UofT students (Student Services fees, Hart House fees, etc.), as well as the normal college fees and ASSU fees, and course ancillary fees. Students transferring to FALD will no longer pay college fees (see #19 College Affiliation) and will not pay ASSU fees, as they will not belong to those organizations. At the moment, FALD has no FALD specific incidental fees, and so in the 2014-2015 Fall-Winter session, FALD students will pay only St. George-UofT incidental fees. This will change in subsequent years as new FALD organizations come into existence and a fees referendum is held.
Students remaining in FAS will maintain their college affiliation. Students transferring to FALD will NOT belong to a college.
Students remaining in FAS consult their College Registrar's Office for general advising and departmental advisors for specific departmental/POSt questions. Students transferring to FALD will consult the FALD Registrar's Office for general and VIS advising, and the relevant FAS department for specific questions about their other FAS POSt (i.e. other than VIS). They will not be utilizing the College Registrars' offices.
Students remaining in FAS will have access to their college residence according to college priorities, or to other UofT residences as space allows. Students transferring to FALD who are currently in residence will have priority to return to their current residence according to the local policies of the specific residence. Transferring students seeking new access to residence will apply through MyRes application.
Students transferring to FALD will have access to UofT Student Services provided through their incidental fees, but will no longer have access to college services funded through the college, since they will no longer be members of a college.
Students remaining in FAS are members of UTSU (or APUS, if part-time), ASSU and College student organizations. Students transferring to FALD will be members of UTSU or APUS, but will no longer be members of ASSU, which is limited to Faculty of Arts and Science students. Presumably the students in FALD will form their own student organization in the coming year. Students remaining in FAS will have to discuss their relation to that new FALD student organization with its members or executive. ASSU is willing to continue with an ASSU Course Union for the VIS students remaining in FAS if those students are interested in such an arrangement.
Students remaining in FAS will be eligible for FAS and college in-course scholarships as appropriate. Students transferring to FALD will not be eligible for either of those types of scholarships, as the terms of the awards specify they are for Faculty of Arts and Science students. The only exception would be one of the few FAS awards that are for the "best student in course X"; such awards are given regardless of the student's faculty. At the moment FALD does not have an undergraduate VIS program and so does not have undergraduate scholarships. Also, students who hold one of the few renewable college scholarships will lose their right of renewal by no longer being affiliated with the college. This means that those students who currently hold a college scholarship, i.e. either one that is renewable or one just awarded to be used in the 2013-2014 session, should consider carefully whether they want to transfer to FALD.
Students remaining in FAS who sometime in the future leave the VIS Specialist or Major Subject POSt before completing it will have to enter another POSt in FAS to complete their degree, since those VIS POSts will no longer be available for FAS students to enter. Students transferring to FALD may leave a FAS POSt and enter another one for which they are eligible, provided they are not leaving the VIS POSt (or ARC POSt). Since the VIS POSt (or ARC POSt) is one of the degree requirements in FALD, all FALD students will be required to complete it. Students leaving the VIS POSt (and not having an ARC POST) would have to apply to transfer to FAS or somewhere else.
This offer to transfer to FALD this summer is a one-time-only offer to transfer without the usual application or assessment of the academic record. After September 2014, students wanting to move in either direction between FAS and FALD will do so via the normal UofT internal transfer application that is assessed on the basis of the applicant's academic record and other relevant circumstances.