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Declare your Program
Declare your program
All students in FASS are admitted into the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and are undeclared until they contact a department to formally declare a program (major, minor), usually by the time they have completed 60 units. There are benefits to declaring your program early and the requirements for program declaration are unique to each department.
Why is it important to declare a major or minor as early as possible?
- Being declared means that you are "protected": students who have their major or two minors approved are not subject to fulfilling any requirements introduced subsequent to their major or minor declaration.
- Your access to upper division courses may be improved by being declared: some disciplines reserve seats for students who are approved into their major or minor during the first three weeks of enrolment. Psychology, for example, reserves 100% of their upper division seats for students in an approved Psychology major or minor.
Which courses and CGPA are required? Is there a timeline for major or minor declaration?
The minimum overall CGPA requirement to declare a program in FASS is 2.0. Some programs may have higher CGPA requirements.