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  1. About
  2. Graduate Program Manual
  3. 6. Program Planning and Registration
In this section
  • 6. Program Planning and Registration
  • 6.1 Responsibility Advising and Permission to Register
  • 6.2 Minimum Units of Course Weight and Registration Requirements
  • 6.3 Transfer Credit
  • 6.4 Registration Eligibility
  • 6.5 Conditionally Admitted Continuing Students
  • 6.6 Special and Visiting Students
  • 6.7 University of Alberta Students on Formal Exchanges (Outgoing)
  • 6.8 Western Canadian Graduate Deans Agreement (WDA) Students (Outgoing)
  • 6.9 Registration Status
  • 6.10 Full-time Registration Policy
  • 6.11 Registering Using Bear Tracks
  • 6.12 Graduate Project Courses and Thesis
  • 6.13 Registration in Courses Closed to Web Registration
  • 6.14 Confirmation of Registration
  • 6.15 Changes to Registration
  • 6.16 Maintaining Registration in the Program
  • 6.17 Changing Category of Degree Program
  • 6.18 Extensions
  • 6.19 Registering in Thesis at the End of Program
  • 6.20 Registration at the Completion of the Program
  • 6.21 Withdrawal from the University
  • 6.22 Registering in More Than One Degree Program
  • 6.23 Courses Extra to the Degree
  • 6.24 Audits
  • 6.25 Off-Campus Registration

6. Program Planning and Registration

6.1 Responsibility, Advising and Permission to Register

6.2 Minimum Units of Course Weight and Registration Requirements

6.3 Transfer Credit

6.4 Registration Eligibility

6.5 Conditionally Admitted Continuing Students

6.6 Special and Visiting Students

6.7 University of Alberta Students on Formal Exchanges (Outgoing)

6.8 Western Canadian Graduate Deans' Agreement (WDA) Students (Outgoing)

6.9 Registration Status

6.10 Full-time Registration Policy

6.11 Registering Using Bear Tracks

6.12 Graduate Project Courses and Thesis

6.13 Registration in Courses Closed to Web Registration

6.14 Confirmation of Registration

6.15 Changes to Registration

6.16 Maintaining Registration in the Program

6.17 Changing Category of Degree Program

6.18 Extensions

6.19 Registering in THESIS at the End of Program

6.20 Registration at the Completion of the Program

6.21 Withdrawal from the University

6.22 Registering in More than One Degree Program

6.23 Courses Extra to the Degree

6.24 Audits

6.25 Off-Campus Registration

Territorial Acknowledgement

The University of Alberta, its buildings, labs, and research stations are primarily located on the traditional territory of Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, and Ojibway/Saulteaux/Anishinaabe nations; lands that are now known as part of Treaties 6, 7, and 8 and homeland of the Métis. The University of Alberta respects the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations.

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