December 23, 2011 - January 2, 2012 -- Christmas Break, St. Mary's closed

April 18 - 27, 2012 -- Final examinations for Winter term and full-year courses

Auditing privileges are extended to students who have applied for admission and have been officially admitted to the University College. Any student seeking to audit courses must meet all admission deadlines, registration deadlines, and fee deadlines applying to regular students.

A course in which a student is registered and attends as an auditor will be entered on the student's record. The course will not count towards any degree or diploma program. Any student registered as an auditor and who is not attending the course will be withdrawn from the course and the course shall be deleted from the student's record.

Auditors shall, before admission to the class concerned, obtain written permission on a Permission to Audit form from first, the instructor teaching the course; and second, the Area Chair of the course area.

Audit students are excluded from writing examinations and a final grade is not provided. Other course work may be submitted and evaluated at the discretion of the instructor. Auditing students shall not participate in laboratories unless invited to do so by the instructor.

Students who want to change from audit to credit status must do so before the change deadline at the beginning of the term in which the course begins. Applicants may also take for credit at a later date, a course which was previously audited.

HMKN 213 Research Techniques and Critical Thinking in Kinesiology has been discontinued.

NEW COURSE: PHIL 353 H(3-0) Contemporary Ethical Issues
This course examines contemporary ethical issues through the exploration of the central philosophical issues pertaining to debated topics.  Such topics include sexual ethics, abortion, medical ethics including euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, environmental ethics, business and economic ethics, the ethical treatment of animals, issues pertaining to freedom of expression and censorship, issues surrounding the use of violence, and various human rights issues in Canada including aboriginal rights. 
Prerequisite: PHIL 351

NEW COURSE: POLI 381 H(3-0) Introduction to International Relations
This course introduces students to the discipline of International Relations (IR).  The main objectives of this course are: (1) to understand the IR discipline and the central concepts and theories that have shaped it; (2) to understand the dynamics of conflict, war, peace and cooperation: (3) to examine significant patterns of change and continuity in the global political order: (4) and to debate the political and ethical objectives of foreign and global policy-making in relation to security, order, rights and justice.
Prerequisite: POLI 283

COURSE CHANGE: POLI 313 Political Ideologies is now POLI 213