Upper-Year Registration

The Office of the Registrar uses a lottery system to randomly assign appointment dates and time. The School of Kinesiology has no involvement in the assigning of the course selection appointments. You can access your appointment date in the Student Centre, typically it is posted one business day prior to the start of course selection for your program year. If you do not receive a course selection appointment you will need to call the registrar’s office 519-661-2100.

A few courses offered through the School of Kinesiology may fill up quickly. Students cannot receive special permission to be added to a course that is full. If a course has filled, you should still complete your schedule by taking other courses.

Adjustment Enrollment Period: July 26 to August 2
After the priority enrollment period, enrollment conditions (i.e. priority constraint) will change to allow more students access to select courses. You can review when a priority constraint will expire by referring to the course registration notes.

Access to course registration will be temporarily suspended at the beginning and end of the adjustment enrollment period while these enrollment conditions are adjusted. You will not need a new enrollment appointment when access to course. For more information about priority dates please see the Register in Courses information on the Office of the Registrar website.

Only courses listed in the online timetable are being offered during the 2023-24 academic year. We are not planning to add any more courses (or additional sections to courses currently listed) at this time. Please be sure you have taken the prerequisite before attempting enrol in a course.

Students requiring special permission to take non-Kinesiology courses should contact the department offering the course. If/when permission is granted, the department should forward a notice of permission to our office via email kinug@uwo.ca to be noted on your academic record. To enrol in the course, you will need to contact https://westernchat.uwo.ca when your online registration appointment opens.

If you receive an error message when registering for a course, be sure to check the prerequisite in the Academic Calendar and the course notes in the online timetable for an explanation. It is very important to check the notes and prerequisites when you receive an error message. If you meet the course pre-requisites and constraints and are still unable to enroll in the course please contact the helpline at https://westernchat.uwo.ca.

Antirequisites are listed in the Academic Calendar under course descriptions. It is important not to take antirequisite courses as you can’t receive academic credit for courses with similar content.

NOTE: When there is an anti-requisite listed, you cannot take that course instead of the Kinesiology course.

Essay Requirements: Prior to graduation you must complete 2.0 essay designated credits (courses ending with F, G or E) of which at least 1.0 must be at the 2000 level or above.

Arts/Category B Requirement: Courses from the following areas can be used to complete your Category B Requirements:

• Art History, Arts and Humanities, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature and Culture, Creative Arts, Digital Humanities, East Asia Studies, English, Film Studies, French Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Global Great Books, Intercultural Communications, Italian Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Museum and Curatorial Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Speech, Studio Art, The New Liberal Arts, Theatre Studies, Theological Studies, Visual Arts History, Visual Arts Studio, World Literatures and Cultures, Writing

• Languages: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Students enrolled in an Honors Specialization in Kinesiology may take up to 12.5 Kinesiology credits, students enrolled in a Major in Kinesiology are allowed a maximum of 8.5 Kinesiology credits.

If you complete an Arts course or a Kin course that is essay based it can count towards both your Essay and your Breadth/Kin requirements.

Information about new courses will be posted when it becomes available.

If you require help with the course registration process, please consult the Office of the Registrar’s website, as well as their YouTube channel, which features step-by-step video guides to registration.

If you encounter any technical difficulties with registration, you may reach out to the Office of the Registrar through WesternChat.

2.5 Required Credits

• Kinesiology 2032a/b
• Kinesiology 2230a/b
• Kinesiology 2241a/b
• 1.0 Kinesiology activity based courses (0.25 and 0.5 credit options available)

Year 2 Course Selection Tips

• Kinesiology 2230a/b and 2241a/b are taught in both terms to provide flexibility when timetabling. You need to only register in each course once. It is recommended that you do not take all three in the same term.
• It is recommend that you enroll in no more than 3.5 Kinesiology credits in year 2. Prior to graduation Honors Specialization students can take a maximum of 12.5 Kinesiology credits; it is important you balance your electives and Kinesiology courses each year.
• Look ahead to years 3 and 4 Kinesiology courses to see if there are any second year pre-requisites you need to complete.

External Science Requirements

• Consider taking a Science/Medical Science credit from the 2100 level or above in both semesters. With 3.0 Science/Kinesiology science credits required in years 2 -4 taking one per semester helps balance your course load each year.
• Of the 3.0 senior science credits taken in years 2 -4 up to 2.0 can be replaced with Kinesiology courses (see list below). This means 1.0 must be from the Faculty of Science at the 2100 level or higher. Of the remaining 2.0 you can take all Kinesiology, all Science or a combination of courses from both programs.
• Courses cannot be double counted toward Kinesiology and Science requirements. For example you cannot take Kinesiology 4450a/b and use it to complete a Kinesiology Bioscience course and an external science requirement, it can only be counted towards one or the other.

Kinesiology Courses That Can Be Used To Complete External Science Requirements (up to 2.0 not previously selected)

• Kinesiology 3339a/b, 3341a/b, 3343a/b, 3347a/b, 3353a/b, 3360a/b, 3480a/b, 4420a/b, 4430f/g, 4432a/b, 4433a/b, 4443, 4450a/b, 44520a/b

2.5 Required Credits

• Kinesiology 2032a/b
• Kinesiology 2230a/b
• Kinesiology 2241a/b
• 1.0 Kinesiology activity based courses (0.25 and 0.5 credit options available)

Year 2 Course Selection Tips

• Kinesiology 2230a/b and 2241a/b are taught in both terms to provide flexibility when timetabling. You need to only register in each course once.
• It is recommend that you enroll in no more than 3.5 Kinesiology credits in year 2. Prior to graduation Honors Specialization students can take a maximum of 12.5 Kinesiology credits and Major/Honors Double Major can take a maximum of 8.5; it is important you balance your electives and Kinesiology courses each year.
• Look ahead to years 3 and 4 Kinesiology courses to see if there are any second year pre-requisites you need to complete.

3.5 Required Credits

• Kinesiology 2230a/b
• Kinesiology 2241a/b
• 1.0 Kinesiology activity based courses (0.25 and 0.5 credit options available)
• Kinesiology 2236a/b
• Kinesiology 2032a/b
• Kinesiology 2276f/g

Year 2 Course Selection Tips

• Kinesiology 2230a/b and 2241a/b are taught in both terms to provide flexibility when timetabling. You need to only register in each course once.
• It is recommend that you enroll in no more than 4.0 Kinesiology credits in year 2. Prior to graduation Honors Specialization students can take a maximum of 12.5 Kinesiology credits; it is important you balance your electives and Kinesiology courses each year.

Information about these course options is posted on the Independent Study/Practicum/Research Projects page.

Students who have already graduated but are returning to take additional courses should reference the notes section of the online timetable. It is important to know that a variety of 3000- and 4000-level Kinesiology courses will not be available until priorities lift on July 20.