General Questions

If you believe you have the prerequisites, or equivalent courses from another institution or from your first degree, please provide our Undergraduate Program Coordinator with the relevant transcripts so that they can determine your eligibility for a waiver.

The FHS undergraduate office maintains a wait list. Please e-mail fhs_advising@sfu.ca to be added to the list.

The 60 credit hours prerequisite pertains to all current SFU academic credits shown on your student transcript - not just HSCI credits. Your transcript should indicate your current credit hours. If you have 60 or more credits showing, then you are eligible to register for those HSCI courses which require the prerequisite of 60 credits. If not, then you will be unable to register. All new students start at 0 credits. However, students coming to SFU with a completed degree who have also been accepted into an approved program (i.e., second degree) should meet the 60 credit hours prerequisite. Students who hold degrees, including returning SFU degree students, who are not in an approved program, will not meet the 60 credit hours prerequisite. If you are one of those students, contact the FHS Undergraduate Program Coordinator before your registration date.

SFU operates on a tri-semester system whereby courses are held regularly for 13 weeks during each Spring (January-April), Summer (May-August), and Fall (September-December) semester. Incorporated in the regular Summer Semester are the Intersession (May-June) and Summer Sessions (July-August). During these two sessions, courses usually run two or more times per week, meeting the total number of hours required.

These are the course sections - D01.00 represents a day section, E01.00 an evening section, and C01.00 a correspondence section or distance education course. Courses with tutorial or lab sections will include additional numbers associated with the main section. For example, D01.08 indicates the 8th tutorial section of the day course. Refer to your SFU Course Timetable registration paper for complete code details.

The Faculty of Health Science's Undergraduate Programs does not have a breakdown of percentages to letter grades. For example, there is no formal policy that indicates that 95% and above equals an A+, 90-94% an A, and so forth. At the beginning of a course, the instructor will inform students about the nature of all assignments, criteria for marking all assignments, the weight assigned to each assignment, penalties for late assignments, opportunities to resubmit assignments for marking, and University policy regarding plagiarism and academic dishonesty. The University-wide policy on grading practices is SFU Teaching Policy - T20.01 Grading Practices and Grade Appeals.

Your first step is to discuss your concerns with the course instructor. If you cannot come to an acceptable understanding with your instructor, you can then appeal in writing to the FHS Director of Undergraduate Programs. You must submit all original marked assignments along with your written appeal. The Director will determine how to proceed with your appeal. If you are not satisfied with the outcome, then your final option is to appeal to SFU's Senate Appeals Board, Office of the Registrar. Before you make the decision to appeal a grade, please be aware that your course work could receive a lower mark after re-evaluation.

HSCI course outlines