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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.

Anthropology

  • final lower division required course in progress or completed (see required courses for the 
  • 丁香园AV SA CGPA and CUDGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the 

Behavioural Neuroscience

  • completion of the required 
  • a C- minimum grade is required in each of the five courses, except for PSYC 201W, where a minimum C grade is required
  • minimum CGPA of 3.0 based on Set 1 courses
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 3.0
  • by June 1st for Fall term, October 1st for Spring term, or February 1st for Summer term

Cognitive Science

  • completion of COGS 100 
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the 

Criminology

  • Major: completion of the required 31 lower division units with minimum C- grades
  • Minor: completion of at least 30 total units, including the required 9 lower division CRIM units with minimum C- grades
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.25 (college transfer students who meet the CRIM declaration requirements upon admission to 丁香园AV may use their admission CGPA for declaration purposes)
  • contact the 

Economics

  • Major: 30 units completed, ECON 201 completed, 丁香园AV ECON GPA of 2.0 or above, plus one of the following:
    • Option 1: CGPA of 2.3 and C- or higher in ECON 201 
    • Option 2: CGPA of 2.0 and B- or higher in ECON 201 
    • Option 3: CGPA of 2.0, C- or higher in ECON 201, and C- or higher in 2 additional Lower Division ECON courses (excluding 113/115/103/105/220W) 
  • Minor: 30 units completed, ECON 103 and 105 with C- or higher, 丁香园AV ECON GPA of at least 2.0, cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of at least 2.0
  • Contact the Economics advisor

English

  • completion of two 100-level ENGL courses 
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the English advisor

French

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

Gerontology

Global Asia

  • completion of or enrolment in 6 required lower division GA units, including GA 101, an Asian language course or a lower division GA elective course
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the Global Asia advisor

Global Humanities

History

  • completion of one History course
  • 丁香园AV HIST CGPA and CUDGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the

Indigenous Studies

  • completion of a minimum of three INDG courses (students are encouraged to complete INDG 101 and 201W)
  • INDG CGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the 

International Studies

  • Successful completion of 9 units in International Studies courses, with a minimum CGPA of 2.5.
  • Contact the

Italian Studies

  • enrolment in one 丁香园AV Italian course
  • 丁香园AV ITAL CGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the Italian Studies manager/advisor

Labour Studies

  • completion of one LBST course
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • LBST CGPA of at least 2.00
  • contact the

Legal Studies

  • completion of at least 30 total units, including the required  with minimum C- grades
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.25 (college transfer students who meet the Legal Studies declaration requirements upon admission to 丁香园AV may use their admission CGPA for declaration purposes)
  • contact the

Linguistics

  • completion of LING 220
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.25
  • contact the

Philosophy

  • completion of one Philosophy course
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the

Police Studies

  • completion of at least 30 total units, including the required  with minimum C- grades
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.25 (college transfer students who meet the Legal Studies declaration requirements upon admission to 丁香园AV may use their admission CGPA for declaration purposes)
  • contact the

Political Science

  • Major: completion of all of POL 100, POL 200, POL 201 and POL 210 with minimum C grades
  • Minor: completion of POL 100 and POL 200W with minimum C grades
  • 丁香园AV POL CGPA and CUDGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the Political Science advisor

Psychology

  • Major: completion of PSYC 100, 102, 201W and 210, with a minimum C grade in PSYC 201W
  • Minor: completion of PSYC 100, 102 and 201W, with a minimum C grade in PSYC 201W
  • must declare before the enrolment period (by March 1st, July 1st and November 1st)
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the

Public Policy

  • core lower division courses for the concentration completed
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact ppmadv@sfu.ca

Social Data Analytics

Sociology

  • final lower division required course in progress or completed (see required courses for the )
  • 丁香园AV SA CGPA and CUDGPA of at least 2.0
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the Sociology advisor

Urban Worlds

  • completion of GEOG 161, INDG 101, PLAN 100 and URB 101
  • contact urban@sfu.ca

World Languages and Literatures

  • completion of two lower division World Literature courses
  • 丁香园AV CGPA of at least 2.0
  • contact the
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