Summer (Preliminary)

Last updated: February 3, 2025

Step 1:  Planning

 

Course enrolment is the process of adding the courses you plan to take over the next academic session in ACORN. Before you enrol in courses, it is a good idea to spend some time to plan your courses, check the delivery method of the courses, create a weekly schedule, and understand the enrolment indicators and controls. You should also make sure you know how to use ACORN. 

Before you start enrolling in your courses, you should spend some time planning out your courses and making a draft schedule.  Make sure to check the delivery method listed in the Summer timetable. Make sure to check the delivery instructions in Timetable Builder for each course for specific details about how that course will be offered.

Step 2:  Enrolling in Courses starting March 3, 2025 at 9 amNow that you have planned out your courses, and know how to use ACORN, you are ready to enrol in your courses. You can log into ACORN,  enrol in courses or add yourself to the waiting list if the course is full.  Course enrolment is done in real-time, on a first-come, first-served basis. Courses fill up fast, so prioritize your top courses and enrol in those first.Important: 

1. Enrol in courses for terms 1 and 2 as soon as the registration window becomes available.  Delays will adversely impact your ability to get the courses of your choice.
2. Prerequisites are enforced.  If you enrol in a course and have not completed the published course prerequisite as listed in the course description, you will be removed from the course.  Reinstatement will only be possible if the course has space.
3. You may only enrol in courses that are part of CHRM.  Nonapproved courses will be removed anytime when discovered and you will be responsible for paying any fees associated with the course at the time of the course cancellation.

Step 3:  Pay or defer your fees by April 23, 2025.  After you enrol in courses on ACORN, the final step to complete your registration is to pay your fees. If you do not pay or defer your fees by the fees/deferral deadline, you may be removed from your courses. It takes a few days for the fees payment to be recorded on your account.  Make sure to check your ACORN status at the end of April to ensure that your status on ACORN has changed from INVITED to REGISTERED, else you risk being removed from all your courses.  Reinstatement in courses will only be possible if the course has space.Step 4:  Check your registration status to ensure you will not be removed from courses. Your registration status is displayed under "Academics" on the Home/Dashboard page on ACORN after you log in. 

• Registered: This means your registration is complete.
• Invited: This means your registration is not complete and you may be removed from courses after the payment deadline noted above.
• Financially Cancelled: This means your registration has been cancelled.

Late Enrolment & Fees Payment
If, after April 23,  you secure a space in a course or are only able to add yourself to a waiting list, you are required to email proof of payment to the CHRM office immediately or you risk being removed from courses.

 

Last updated: February 3, 2025

The academic dates below include enrolment dates, drop deadlines, exam periods, petition deadlines, and more.

It is important to take note of all your academic dates, and payment and refund deadlines. Your refund eligibility depends on a variety of factors including how your fees are assessed (either program fee or course fee) and on what date you cancelled the course. 

Being unaware of an academic, payment, or refund deadline is not a typical reason to get an exception or extension.

 

Date	Activity
March 3, 2025	First day of Summer 2025 course enrolment for all Faculty of Arts & Science students
March 3 – 9, 2025	Course enrolment priority period for Faculty of Arts & Science students
March 10, 2025	General enrolment period for Faculty of Arts & Science students
April 23, 2025	Tuition fee payment/deferral deadline for 2025 Summer session.  Please visit the Student Accounts website for detailed fee schedules.
TBA	Deferred exam period used for students who missed a final exam in December 2024. This period also includes scheduled re-deferrals from previous exam periods.
May 5, 2025	Classes begin in F and Y courses
May 8, 2025	Waitlists for F and Y courses close at end of day
May 11, 2025	Last day to enrol in F and Y courses
May 16, 2025	President's Day. University closed; no classes
May 19, 2025	Victoria Day - University closed; no classes
June 2, 2025	Last day to drop F courses.  Note that some courses cannot be dropped using ACORN and students must contact their College or Department to do so; refer to the Course Enrolment Instructions
June 16, 2025	Classes end in F and Y courses
June 17, 2025	At the instructor's discretion, classes scheduled on Fridays will hold their last class on this day to make up for class missed due to the President's Holiday on May 16, 2025.
June 18, 2025	Study day
June 19 – 24, 2025	Final exams in F courses.  Term tests in Y courses.
TBA	First day to request Fall 2025 graduation
June 30, 2025	President's Day. University closed; no classes
July 1, 2025	Canada Day holiday. University closed; no classes
July 2, 2025	Classes begin in S courses.  Classes in Y courses resume.
TBA	Last day to submit a petition for F courses (including final assessments)
TBA	Last day for instructors to accept late-term work in F courses (including final assessments) without needing to submit a petition to the Faculty. This deadline is at the instructors’ discretion and should be discussed and approved in advance.
July 4, 2025	Waitlists for S courses close at end of day
July 8, 2025	Last day to enrol in S courses
July 22, 2025	Last day to drop Y courses.  Note that some courses cannot be dropped using ACORN and students must contact the Department by the deadline.
July 29, 2025	Last day to drop S courses.  Note that some courses cannot be dropped using ACORN and students must contact the Department by the deadline.
August 1, 2025	President's Day. University closed; no classes
August 4, 2025	Civic holiday - University closed; no classes
August 12, 2025	Classes end in S and Y courses
August 13 – 14, 2025	At the instructor's discretion, classes scheduled on Mondays/Fridays will hold their last class on these days to make up for class missed due to the Presidential Day (August 1) and Civic Holiday (August 4).
August 15, 2025	Study day
August 16 – 25, 2025	Final exams in S and Y courses
TBA	Deferred exam period used for students who missed a final exam in April 2025 or June 2025. This period also includes scheduled re-deferrals from previous exam periods.
TBA	Last day to submit a petition in S and Y courses
TBA	Last day for instructors to accept late-term work in S and Y courses (including final assessments) without needing to submit a petition to the Faculty. This deadline is at the instructors’ discretion and should be discussed and approved in advance.
TBA	Last day to submit a petition for any exam-related requests from the 2025 Special August Deferred Exam Period.

 

Last updated: February 3, 2025

It is important to take note of all your academic dates, and payment and refund deadlines. Please note that being unaware of an academic, payment or refund deadline is not a typical reason to get an exception or extension.

If you cancel a course, you may be eligible to receive a full or partial refund. Whether or not you are eligible for a refund depends on a variety of factors including how your fees are assessed (either program fee or per-course fee) and on what date you cancelled the course. Refund information and deadlines are available on the Student Accounts website. Whether or not you are eligible for a refund depends on how your fees are assessed and on what date you cancelled the course. 

For refund deadlines, please refer to the Office of Student Accounts website.

Dropping courses:If you decide that you no longer want to take a course, drop it as soon as possible. This applies to courses that you've added to the waitlist, as well as those in which you are enrolled. If you drop the course before the deadline to add courses, your space becomes available to another student. If you’re not sure how to drop a course, check out the ACORN How-To page.

Last day to cancel:  This is the last day to cancel an individual course on ACORN so that it disappears from your permanent academic record.

Dropping all courses or your only course & cancelling Registration:  There may be circumstances that require you to drop all of your courses for the session you are enrolled in. If this is the right option for you at this time, you should drop all of your courses (including waitlisted courses) and cancel your registration on ACORN as soon as possible.   Ensure you do so by the last date to drop courses without academic penalty so that your courses are removed from your transcript. Please review our important dates and deadlines, and the U of T refund schedule.

Last day to cancel:

F courses:  June 2, 2025S courses:  July 22, 2025Y courses: July 29, 2025
Important Considerations

• Refund deadlines are not the same as course cancellation deadlines. Check Student Accounts for the refund schedule.
• Not attending classes is not the same as cancelling your registration. If you remain enrolled in a course, you will still be given a mark based on work submitted and missed assignments will be marked accordingly. A final grade will appear on your transcript.
• If you are a newly admitted student who cancels their registration without earning at least 0.5 credit by the end of the Winter 2026 session, you will need to reapply for admission to CHRM program.
• Cancelling your registration will trigger a full or partial refund of incidental/ancillary fees if you do so within the appropriate time frames. Full details can be found on the Student Accounts website.

 

Last updated: February 3, 2025

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Important:  April 23, 2025, is the deadline to defer your fees (in case of OSAP) or pay your incidental fees (in case of approved tuition waivers).  Failure to meet this deadline may result in your registration being cancelled.

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OSAP:  The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) is a government financial aid program that assists eligible Ontario residents attending university through a combination of loans and grants.  For more information please visit https://future.utoronto.ca/finances/financial-aid/osap-and-other-government-aid/If you applied for OSAP or government financial aid by the deadline and cannot pay the required fees before receiving your funds, you can defer payment of your fees on ACORN.Visit the Office of Student Accounts website for more information about making payments, deferring your fees with OSAP or other government loans, or using your undergraduate scholarship/award.

After you have deferred your fees, you can check your registration status in ACORN.  Your registration status is displayed under "Academics" on the Home/Dashboard page after you log in. 

• Registered: This means your registration is complete.
• Invited: This means your registration is not complete and you may be removed from courses after the payment deadline noted above.
• Financially Cancelled: This means your registration has been cancelled.

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Tuition Waiver for UofT Staff:  For instructions and information visit https://studentaccount.utoronto.ca/making-payments/pay-with-a-tuition-waiver-for-staff-and-dependants-of-staff/Important:  If your tuition waiver is approved, you must pay the incidental fees by the payment deadline (April 23, 2025).  You may email proof of payment to the CHRM Program office so your status on ACORN can be changed from INVITED to REGISTERED.   If you miss the payment deadline, you risk being removed from courses for non-payment of fees.  Reinstatement will not be possible if the courses are full.  For questions regarding Staff waiver eligibility please contact your HR representative.After you have paid your fees, you can check your registration status in ACORN.  Your registration status is displayed under "Academics" on the Home/Dashboard page after you log in. 

• Registered: This means your registration is complete.
• Invited: This means your registration is not complete and you may be removed from courses after the payment deadline noted above.
• Financially Cancelled: This means your registration has been cancelled.

Last updated: February 3, 2025

Waitlists let you "line up" for courses that are currently full. If space becomes available and you are next on the waitlist, you will be enrolled automatically. 

Things to Consider

• In the Summer Session, you can be on the waitlist for up to 2.0 credits.
• If you are on the waitlist for a course, it will count towards your maximum course and term load.
• Not all courses have waitlists. See the waitlist column in Timetable Builder.
• You cannot enrol in one section of a course and add yourself to the waitlist for another section.
• You can add yourself to the waitlist for multiple sections of the same course. If you are on the waitlist for multiple lecture sections of a course, and are subsequently enrolled into any one of these lecture sections, you will automatically be removed from the other waitlists.

Waitlists for Tutorial/Practical sections

Tutorials (TUT) and Practicals (PRA) don't have waitlists. You can only add yourself to the waitlist for a lecture (LEC) section of the course. If you are enrolled from the waitlist, you are responsible for adding any tutorial and practical sections.  Enrolling in a Course from a WaitlistWhen a spot opens up, you will be enrolled into the course from a waitlist automatically and a charge will be added to your fees account. An email will be sent to your U of T email account to notify you that you have been enrolled. If you were on waitlists for additional sections of the course, you will be removed from those waitlists automatically.  You are responsible for any tuition /ancillary fees incurred as a result of being enrolled in a course that you were waitlisted in.

Waitlists and Fees

There are no fees associated with being on the waitlist for a course. You will only be charged for any course in which you are successful in securing a space off the waitlist.

Last updated: February 3, 2025

• In Person: This meeting section is in person. You will be required to attend this meeting section at a specific time and location. The course outline will provide details. 
• Hybrid: This meeting section includes in-person and online activities. You will be required to attend some activities in person at a specific time and location and some activities online (synchronous or asynchronous). The course outline will provide specific details. 
• Online Synchronous: This meeting section is online and requires attendance at a specific time for class activities. Online courses may require an in-person final assessment. For Y courses, both midterm tests and final assessments may be in person. The course outline will provide specific details. 
• Online Asynchronous: This meeting section is online and does not require attendance at a specific time for class activities. Online courses may require an in-person final assessment. For Y courses, both midterm tests and final assessments may be in person. The course outline will provide specific details. 

Last updated: February 3, 2025

The Timetable Builder (TTB) is a tool at the University of Toronto that lets students search for courses and create potential timetables. The Timetable Builder does not connect to your ACORN account, does not check your eligibility for courses, and will not enrol you in courses. To enrol, please check "4 Steps to Registration" on this page.  

How to use the Timetable Builder 

1. Select the Faculty / Division and Session. (CHRM please select Faculty of Arts and Science)
2. Choose a faculty or division (enter IRE, SOC or STA)
3. Select a session or term
4. Search for courses and ensure you meet any prerequisites for courses (click on "More course information")
5. Add lectures, tutorials, and labs to a mock timetable

Program Requirements are listed here (make sure to revive the limitations for Group B courses). Program Courses  listed in the preliminary summer schedule:

Group AIRE242H1 HRM for Industrial Relations and HR ProfessionalsIRE244H1 Labour RelatinosIRE260H1 Organizational Behaviour
IRE347H1 Training and Development
IRE430H1 Canadian Employment Law and the non-Union Workplace
IRE431H1 Canadian Labour and the Unionized Workplace

Group B

ECO101H1 Introduction to MicroEconomics  SOC100H1 Introduction to Sociology  I:  Sociological PerspectivesSOC150H1 Introduction to Sociology II:  Sociological InquiriesSTA220H1 The Practice of Statistics I
STA221H1 The Practice of Statistics II
IRW220H1 Statistics for Work and Organizations

Registration Start time:  March 3, 2025, at 9 am

Enrolment indicators are codes used for some courses that tell you if there are any special restrictions for enrolling in a course (known as enrolment controls). Not all courses have enrolment controls and some courses have multiple controls.  

The following enrolment indicators can be associated with any given course. You can find the enrolment controls associated with your courses in Timetable Builder.

Priority (P): Some students are given priority access until a specific date.

Enrol at Department (E): Students must contact the academic unit that offers the course to request permission to enrol.

Department Approval Required (A): Approval from academic unit required for enrolment

Department Approval Required, Some Student Groups have Priority (AP): Approval from academic unit required for enrolment, some student groups have priority access until a specific date.

Department Approval Required, Course is Restricted (AR1): Approval required from academic unit for enrolment, course is also restricted to specific student groups.

Department Approval Required, Course is Restricted Until a Specific Date (AR2): Approval required from academic unit for enrolment, course is also restricted to specific student groups until a specific date after which another group of students will be able to request enrolment.

Restricted (R1): Course/section is restricted at all times for specific students.

Restricted (R2): Course/section is restricted to a group of students until a specific date, after which time another group of students is also able to enrol.

If you enrol in two courses that take place at the same time, you will have a conflict. ACORN will not prevent you from enrolling in conflicting courses, however, it’s essential while planning your schedule to ensure your courses do not overlap in time. This is important as instructors are not obligated to provide lecture notes or recordings, and even more significant, you may find your conflicting courses have the same schedule for assessments or final exams. Having conflicting courses will not be a valid justification for missing an assessment or final exam.