Re: [Assam] Strange case at UBC, Canada-my host's brother's degree program

[Dilip/Dil Deka]

ADVICE:

It is not as whimsical as it appears. For every degree in US and Canada, the university has a requirement of certain number of courses. At BS, BA level, normally it is a mix of science and arts courses. The course requirements are clearly spelled out in the department graduation policy.

Why doesn't your friend go to his department head and ask for the paper detailing the graduating process?

Dilipda

umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

 

Can anyone be allowed to study science courses/subjects at a Univ for three years full time - and he passes all of them and then asked to study for four more years (full time) before a bachelor's degree can be awarded to him?

 

Seems strange but thats the option given to my host's (husband of my classmate from Harvard) elder brother. It might smack of racism but for the fact that the person who was acting as his advisor was fired for giving "unofficial" advice to him and others. However, no eforts so far have been made to allow him to join class (the academic session started this week at www.ubc.ca ) saying that since he was enrolled in the B.A. program he cannot be allowed to take higher courses in science (ALL the courses he took so far are in science though) and unless he studies three years of arts courses (languages, philosophy etc) he cannot graduate with either a BA or BSc degree.

 

He says that he always wanted to graduate with a BS (BSc) degree and was told by the "unofficial " advisor -secretary of the Science Faculty Director - that he should continue to enrol in the Arts faculty and keep taking science courses and at the end of his third year he would be transfered to the science faculty. That woman is fired and he is in the hot seat thanks to mismanagement by univ officials.

 

 Thankfully there is a professor who has shown some interest in hearing him out (though has nothing to do with the issue and cannot help him out directly) and he has gone to meet him today. A advisor appointed by the univ. -it seems -has no time to meet him neither responds to his phone calls or emails. I advised he contact all possible people since he knows knowone here -despite being a citixzen now --since he is an orphan and a refugee on top of that.

 

Any advice ?

 

Umesh

Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740 USA

Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada

1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Canada # (607) 221-9433

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/

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