Student advice
Our student advisors can help with degree planning and much more:
- Degree planning, including double degrees and double majors
- Planning for new degrees including the Bachelor of Digital Screen with Honours
- Explaining your course options
- Semester planning (e.g., work load)
- Understanding the University Calendar and degree regulations
- Advice on eligibility to graduate
- Transfer of credits from other New Zealand tertiary institutions
- Permissions to take courses elsewhere for credit to a UC degree
- Cross-crediting between several undergraduate degrees
- Transferring between degrees
- Approval of entry to courses and degrees
- Exemptions, such as waivers of prerequisites or core-requirements
- Withdrawal from courses
- Suspensions
- Extensions
- Part-time enrolment at Master's level
- Appeals
Visit our Qualifications and courses page to find out about your options.
Departments and Schools
The individual Departments and Schools within the Faculty of Arts can answer questions about course selection and can offer advice about course suitability. We can help you with the level of courses and the number of points you are required to take in order to qualify at the end of your studies.
Maori students
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha offers a welcoming environment for Māori students and provides support and encouragement for Māori to achieve academic excellence. Find out more
Pasifika students
The University of Canterbury provides a welcoming and supportive environment for students of Pacific heritage. Academic and cultural support services have been designed to ensure that you get the most out of both your studies and your free time. Find out more
Students with disabilities
For advice on support for students with a disability, please see the Equity & Disability Service. Find out more
Student Support
The Student Support team provides a range of services, support and useful information for students, both domestic and international students. Find out more
Career advice and planning
UC Careers and Employment provides advice and resources for job seeking, (including CV development) and information about prospective jobs and employers. Find out more
Academic support
The Academic Skills Centre is a free service that offers writing and study advice, resources and support for students from first-year through to PhD. Contact the ASC
For various other student services please see the Current Students website.
If you wish to add, change or discontinue any of your current courses you must follow the correct procedure.
A change of enrolment application should be submitted online and goes through an approval process via the relevant department/school and the Faculty Office.
Key dates for enrolment changes
Before you make the change, make sure you are aware of the key dates for enrolment and withdrawal from courses.
Course change process
To make changes to your current enrolment:
- Go to MyUC.
- Login using your University student "Username" and "Password".
- Click on the "Enrolment" button.
- Proceed with your change of enrolment application, following the instructions and make sure you complete the application by clicking on "submit".
If you have not heard anything about your change of enrolment application within one week, please contact the Enrolment Contact Centre or the College Office to find out what the status of your application is.
What happens next?
Once a change has been approved, you will be emailed or posted a notification of change which must be accepted in order for the change to be finalised. Approvals are based on meeting the required prerequisites for a course, your workload (number of points enrolled in) and degree requirements.
If a change is not approved, your application will be declined. The College Office may also contact you, in order to offer advice about your options.
How will my loan, allowance and fees be affected?
Changing or withdrawing from your courses will have implications for your fees. If you have a student allowance and/or loan, these may be affected as well. You should make sure you know exactly what the implications will be for you, BEFORE you put through an application for a change of enrolment.
Advice
Before you make a change to your enrolment, you may wish to get some academic advice. You can contact the relevant department or contact the Student Advisors in the College of Arts.
UC Arts Qualifications and Courses
Find our qualifications and courses here: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/qualifications-and-courses/
Limited Full Time Status Applications
Please download the Limited Full Time Status form from StudyLink https://www.studylink.govt.nz/documents/forms/limited-fulltime-application.pdf
- Complete the student section of the form, including the signature
- Email the form to us at artsdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz and include any supporting documents (e.g. a doctors letter) if required
- We will complete the UC section of the form, and email it back to you for you to upload to StudyLink
How to change your enrolment: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/enrol/change/
Transfer of credit
In order to transfer your credit from another university or institution to UC, we need 1) an original (preferably digital) transcript from your previous university or institution, and 2) a completed transfer of credit form, which you can find here: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/enrol/transfer/
Email your transcript and form to artsdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz
Timetable
For information about using your timetable, check here: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/timetables/ and for help: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/timetables/help/
Workload
A normal full-time workload is 120 points across semester one and two, with 60 points in each semester. The maximum workload is 75 points in one semester. Excess workloads are seldom approved; applications can be made by completing this form: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/enrol/special/excessworkload/and emailing the form to artsdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz
Waiver of Prerequisite
Applications for waivers of prerequisite can be made by completing this form https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/enrol/manage/exemption/ and emailing the form to artsdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz
Compulsory courses for the BA (Schedule E and Schedule C courses)
From 2022: Students who enrol in the Bachelor of Arts for the first time after 1 January 2022, are required to include two of the following courses in their degree: ARTS102, MAOR165, or WRIT101. We recommend taking at least one of these courses in your first semester of study.
Prior to 2022: Students who enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts for the first time prior to 1 January 2022 are required to include one course from Schedule E to the BA in their degree. These courses are: ARTH 217, CINE 213, COMS 102, EDUC 103, ENGL 110, ENGL 210, EURA 101, FREN 226, HIST 128, HIST 243, HSRV 102, HSRV 204, LING 102, MAOR 107, MAOR 108, MAOR 165, MAOR 212, MAOR 219, MUSA 150, POLS 103, TREO 110.
Distance course info
Please see the UC Covid -19 website for information about teaching and learning under the Covid-19 Protection Framework (traffic light system) https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/covid-19/
Not all qualification and courses are offered by distance teaching. Distance taught courses can be identified by the code (D) e.g. ARTS102 22S1 (D).
You can search distance courses in Arts here: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/qualifications-and-courses/distance-learning/distance-courses/
For queries regarding the possibility of other courses being offered by distance, please contact the course coordinator directly. You can find the course coordinator by searching for the course (use the “find a course by code” box) here: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/qualifications-and-courses/
Masters, Honours and other graduate programme information
Masters enrolment application forms as well as other Masters application forms (e.g. research proposal forms and suspension applications): https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/qualifications-and-courses/graduate-and-postgraduate-study/
Forms
Forms you may require at UC can be found at the links below. Please contact us if you need advice or guidance about any of these forms.
The Faculty of Arts Student Advisors are located on Level 1 of the Locke building, UC Ilam campus.
You can email us at artsdegreeadvice@canterbury.ac.nz or call the Faculty of Arts at +6433693377.
Contact an Arts student advisor
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