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Course registration for exchange students is a manual process. To register, you will need to submit a list of the courses you wish to take at Laurier so that staff at Laurier International can register you in these courses. Please follow the steps below to help ensure you are registered in the correct courses.
If you have any further questions about the course registration process, please email us at exchange@wlu.ca.
For the 2021/22 academic year, the course selection process will continue to evolve as Laurier transitions back to in-person learning. Please review the guide below for general steps, and continue to review the emails you receive from us for the most up to date information on course registration for exchange students at Laurier.
Detailed information on courses at Laurier can be found online in our university calendars as well as on our websites for future students and current students. On the future students site, you can find sample courses on each program page and on the current students site, you can find course offerings on the left-side menu on each program page.
There is not one specific repository for previous course syllabi at Laurier. However, once you have located a course code you can try a web search to find more information. Please note that course syllabi are subject to change from year to year and each section of a course may have different content, depending on who is teaching.
You can take a maximum of five courses (2.5 credits) in each term. Full-time studies is considered four courses for undergraduate students and three courses for graduate students.
Please note that exchange students are not allowed to register for online learning courses (courses with the section OC).
Our courses are numbered by academic year. 100-level courses are first year, 200-level courses are second year, 300-level courses are third year and 400-level courses are fourth year. You are not permitted to take 300- or 400-level courses in a subject that is not your major of study. For example, a business student cannot take 300- or 400-level science courses. You may take elective courses outside of your major of study, but they must be at the 100- or 200-level.
For graduate students, your courses will be numbered 500-700. Undergraduate students are not permitted to take any graduate level courses. If you are admitted as a graduate student, you may take undergraduate (100-400 level) courses, but you must take at least one graduate level course during each term to remain in good standing.
It is your responsibility to make sure that the courses you have selected will be transferrable. It is also your responsibility to ensure you have sufficient prerequisite knowledge (can demonstrate you have taken the equivalent course material) to succeed in the courses you have selected. Please consult with your academic advisor at your home institution regarding your course selections.
If you have registered for a course for which you do not have the prerequisite knowledge, you will be asked to leave the course.
LORIS Browse Classes is an online tool that will allow you to build your course schedule by looking up the courses you wish to take and seeing when they are offered. To use Browse Classes:
We ask that you submit your top five course choices as well as three alternative course choices. Please do not repeat the same course code in your choices (same course, different delivery time) as you will automatically be considered for other sections of the same course if the lecture, tutorial or lab you have selected is full.
Exchange students wishing to take BU courses must register in non-BBA sections (e.g. P1, S1) wherever possible. This applies to 100-, 200- and 300-level BU courses.
Before you submit your application, please ensure:
Once you have submitted your course choices, we will begin registering you in your courses. This is a manual process and does take some time, so you will not see your full schedule in LORIS until the end of July or the beginning of August.
We know it can be tough to wait, but be assured that we're working on getting you registered!