Course registration

This information is specific to course registration for Economics students.

Find general information about how to register for courses at UVic, registration periods, and time tickets.

Prerequisites & corequisites

UVic uses a program to automatically check for prerequisite requirements when you register for a course.

At times, this program may be turned off for maintenance. If you register for a course during one of these times and don’t have the prerequisites, you will be dropped from the course at a later date.

Find information about prerequisite and corequisite courses.

General tips

• for a January course that has a prerequisite in the September term, register in the prerequisite first. 
• make sure you have all the prerequisites and corequisites for your courses before you register.
  • contact econreg@uvic.ca if you have questions about this
• current course descriptions and their pre/corequisites can be found in the UVic Academic Calendar.

Troubleshooting prerequisites

• you took a prerequisite at another institution and your grade has not transferred to UVic yet
• you have a Duplicate or Mutually Exclusive notation beside a course on your unofficial transcript
• you have a waiver or substitution for a course that serves as a prerequisite to another course
• you are trying to register for ECON 225 and have declared your program major in Economics, but your program declaration hasn't been processed yet
• for 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 the Economics department if any of these apply to you. In-person and phone requests will be redirected to email and will be handled in the order they are received.

• you may need to provide proof of your grade for transfer credit courses — you can do this by emailing us a screenshot of your unofficial transcript. Overrides can only be processed for graded transfer credits. If you are taking a course at another institution you will need to wait until you have a grade before requesting an override.
• for program declarations, a screenshot from your Online Tools showing your Declaration Pending is sufficient. Ensure your name and student number are clearly visible in this screenshot.
  • overrides are processed by the Economics department, not by Academic Advising or the Registrar's office.
• your registration may be cancelled in certain cases; consult the Academic Calendar for details

Waitlists

If you see a ‘C’ when you register for a course, this means the course is full and you will need to put yourself on the waitlist.

Find information about waitlists for UVic courses.

• 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.
• 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. If there are still no lab spots available after the last add date, contact the Economics office by email.
• 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 a lab spot will be available for you. Please follow the instructions in the second bullet.

Courses at other institutions

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

Courses taken at other post-secondary institutions will be evaluated for transfer credit which can be applied toward your UVic degree.