What is meant by the term “course exemption”?
If you are exempted from a course, this means you can replace it with another course. For example, if you have already taken an acceptable post-secondary calculus course, then you will be exempted from MATH 180. This does not reduce your graduation requirements by 3 or 4 credits; instead, it means that you must replace MATH 180 with another course of your choice that you haven’t taken before. A good choice of replacement is a lower-level (1st or 2nd year) course that is a prerequisite to an upper-level course that you want to take later, and which you may have had to take anyway. For example, some BCS students want to take Computer Graphics (CPSC 314) or Machine Learning (CPSC 340), but these courses require MATH 221 (among others) as a prerequisite. Thus, taking MATH 221 using the replacement course is a wise idea. Then, you might not have to increase your time, or number of credits, to graduation (depending on your other prerequisites, of course). If you are exempted from an upper-ye
