Papers are the individual academic components of your entire course for a particular semester or year.
Each paper has an associated number of points which contribute to the total that you need for your qualification. Most papers at 100-, 200-, and 300-level are worth 18 points, but some have differing point values depending on the workload required. Paper point values and workloads are listed in the paper description.
Each paper is identified by a seven-character code. The first four characters are letters which denote the subject area (e.g. ACCT for Accounting, SOCI for Sociology), followed by three numbers (beginning with 1 for 100-level papers, 2 for 200-level papers, and so on, e.g. ACCT 102, SOCI 201).
In the past, distance-learning papers often used subject codes ending in 'X', but a single subject code is now normally used for all papers in the same subject, regardless of whether they are taught on campus, by distance, or in both modes.
Special topic papers are in particular subjects, which allow different content across years. These papers may change focus from year to year while keeping the same paper code, so it is important to check the specific year and semester details.
You can find papers in several ways on the University website, including browsing by subject area, viewing an A-Z list of subjects, or searching directly for a specific paper (if searching for a paper by code, do not include a space between the letters and numbers; for example, search for STAT110, not STAT 110).
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