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Arts OASIS Graduation Checklist

Before you apply for graduation, make sure your verify your record for graduation (see below). It is your responsibility to ensure that all the requirements of the Arts degree are or will be satisfactorily completed.

Note: DO NOT use the Degree Evaluation听on Minerva or the myProgress tool to confirm your program or degree requirements.听You must confirm that you have completed your program requirements with your departmental program advisors.听

Once you have verified your record for graduation听below, if you have more questions, you can use our 听(you will need to log in to access this form).

When to apply for graduation

Select one of the following three terms of graduation:

Final Semester At 黑料社*	I expect my Courses to be Completed by...	Deadline to Apply on Minerva	"Bachelor of Arts Granted" Status on your Record	Granting of Diploma & Ceremony
Winter	April	End of February	End of May	June
Summer	August	Middle of May	End of October	October/November
Fall	December	End of November	End of February	June

*NOTE: Students who are taking one or more courses at another university - on exchange, on term away, or via Inter-University Transfer - during their term of graduation WILL NOT be eligible to graduate at the end of that final term. These students MUST select the NEXT available term of graduation. (See Transferring Credit - Step 6: U3 & Graduation).

For example, if your final term of study at 黑料社 is the Winter term and you take one or more courses at another university in the Winter term, your term of graduation will not be the Winter term. Your term of graduation will become the next term of graduation which is Summer.

How to apply for graduation

Applying for graduation means selecting a term of graduation on Minerva. You can apply once you have verified your record for graduation (U3 students only)

Go to Student Menu > Student Records Menu > Apply for Graduation for your Primary Curriculum and select your expected final semester of study.
Your Minerva record must show that you are in your U3 year of study to be able to enter a term of graduation. If you are blocked from selecting or changing your graduation term on Minerva, you must contact Service Point.
Missed the deadline to apply for graduation? Complete the form here. NOTE: When entering a term of graduation, you must ensure that you do not have courses on your next term of study. For example, if you enter a Fall term of graduation, you must remove your Winter term course registration.
Double check to see that the correct graduation term appears on the upper-right hand corner of your record by going to Student Menu > Student Records Menu > View Your Unofficial Transcript. This is your confirmation that you have applied for the correct term of graduation.

The review of your graduation record is not automated. Once you select a term of graduation on Minerva, you will not receive a personal confirmation. Consult the Graduation review process to find out what happens next.

How to verify your record for graduation

STEP 1 鈥� Program requirements:

Contact your departmental program advisors to confirm your program requirements

NOTE: Faculty advisors cannot confirm your program requirements!

Contact each of your departmental advisor(s) to confirm that you have completed your program requirements.
A course can only count towards one program of study (exception: foundation program courses).
Ensure that you have completed 2/3 of each of your program requirements at 黑料社.
All used to fulfill program requirements must be completed with a grade of C or better. Students completing the requirements of an Honours or Joint Honours program may need to achieve a higher minimum grade.
Non-University advanced standing credits cannot be counted for a program.
Courses in which you have received a final grade of D can count for elective credit only. If you repeat a course you have previously completed with a final grade of D, you will not earn an additional three credits when repeating the course.

STEP 2 - Degree requirements:

Credit Requirement for your degree: Ensure that you have completed a . Consult the Total credits on your Minerva transcript for confirmation. NOTE: If you repeat a course you have previously completed with a final grade of D, you will not earn any additional credits when repeating the course.
CGPA Requirement: The minimum CGPA required to graduate is 2.0. Those pursuing an Honours or Joint Honours program must have a minimum CGPA of 3.00 and must fulfill the specific program GPA requirements for their program.
Multi-track/Honours Requirements: The minimum requirement is to pursue two programs (at least one Major and one Minor) in two different academic units (link to degree requirements) NOTE: The following programs do not require a second program:
1. Sp茅cialisation enrichie du D茅partement des litt茅ratures de langue fran莽aise, de traduction et de cr茅ation
2. Honours Mathematics and Computer Science
3. The Faculty Program in Environment

NOTE:听As of the Fall 2025, students who have been admitted to the BA degree must complete at least one Arts program (Faculty of Arts programs | Arts OASIS - 黑料社). This also applies to degree transfer and some readmissions.

Holds which prevent graduation approval: The following holds will prevent you from being approved for graduation; please ensure that you resolve them prior to the start of the graduation review process:
1. Document Deficient Warning
2. Missing Course Approvals
3. Missing transcript
4. Foundation Courses Incomplete
Outstanding grades and/or transfer credits: Your record is deemed final when you are approved for graduation. Please ensure the accuracy of your grades as grade changes after you have graduated are no longer possible. All grades must be available, including grades from extensions and deferred exams before you can be approved for graduation. All transfer credits must be posted on your record.
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) option

Courses taken under S/U will not count towards your program (Foundation, Major, Minor, Honours, Faculty) requirements.
You may take only one S/U elective course per term, to a maximum of 10% of your total 黑料社 resident credits. You can find information on the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory policy here.
For the 'Additional S/U Option Approved by Senate' calculation (not the standard S/U option): We are not including the Winter 2020 term in this calculation and听you were permitted 6 additional credits to use in Fall 2020-Winter 2021

Out-of-Faculty credits

You may take up to a maximum of 12 elective credits outside of the Faculties of Arts and Science during your entire B.A. Degree
If you are pursuing an outside-of-Faculty program, you may take up to a total of 30 credits (consisting of both required and elective credits combined) outside of the Faculties of Arts and Science during your entire B.A. degree.
If you are pursuing two outside-of-Faculty programs, you may take up to a total of 40 credits (consisting of both required and electives credits combined) outside of the Faculties of Arts and Science during your entire B.A. Degree.

The graduation review process

Consult this section for information on the graduation review process and its timeline for the term of graduation you have selected on Minerva.

Graduation review period:

Graduation Term	Student Access to Minerva Graduation Approval Query	Deadline for Departmental Program Adviser program approval on Minerva	Deadline for Arts OASIS degree requirement approval on Minerva	鈥淏achelor of Arts Granted鈥� on Minerva record after Senate approval	Granting of Diploma & Convocation Ceremony*
Winter	Mid-April	First week of May	Mid May	End of May	June
Summer	Mid to last week of September	Last week of September	End of September to mid-October	Mid to end of October	October/November
Fall	Mid to last week of January	Last week of January	End of January to mid-February	Mid to end of February	June

Your Minerva graduation record will be reviewed using the following steps according to the graduation review period listed above.

ALL final grades for courses must be on your Minerva record for the graduation review to begin. Missing grade for deferred exams, "K" extensions, reassessment requests and the like will all delay graduation until those issues are resolved.
Make sure that your programs of study are accurately reflected in your last term as an error in your programs will delay the review of your graduation record.
Departmental Program Advisors must enter confirmation on the Minerva Graduation Approval Query that your program requirements have been completed.
You will only be contacted via your 黑料社 email account by a Faculty advisor during the graduation review period should any problems arise. Please check your 黑料社 email regularly during this period to avoid a delay in your graduation. If you have any questions, submit a request thru .
The status of the Minerva Graduation Approval Query will change from "Pending" to "Approved" once your Departmental and Faculty graduation requirements have been successfully met.
Your Minerva transcript will be updated to indicate 鈥淏achelor of Arts Granted鈥� only once the university鈥檚 Senate has approved the list of graduating students. At this point, you can request a letter confirming your graduation through Minerva (select Student Records Menu then Letters - Proof of Enrolment and Proof of Enrolment Letters).
1. Note: At this stage, your 黑料社 record is considered to be final.
Convocation and the distribution of Graduation Diplomas is not overseen by Arts OASIS. You will receive your diploma at the convocation ceremony that corresponds to your term of graduation.

*If you do not attend your convocation ceremony, your diploma can be picked up a month after the ceremony at Service Point. If not, it will then be sent to your permanent address as listed on Minerva (be sure to update your contact information!)

Make sure to have your contact information updated on Minerva in the case that Service Point, as an example, needs to contact you. To do this, go to Student Menu > Personal Menu > Addresses and Phones.