Important messages, dates and news from the Faculty office.
Important Dates

July 24, 2020
Login to SOLUS and begin to look at the courses available in each term and the times of each course.

July 6-31, 2020
Participate in our Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR)

JuIy 20-31, 2020
Register for one of our course registration webinars.

August 4, 2020
Login to SOLUS, view your enrolment appointment time and begin adding courses to your shopping cart.

August 10, 2020
BSCH, BCMPH students enroll on SOLUS.

August 12, 2020
BAH, BFAH, BMUS students enroll on SOLUS.

August 24, 2020
Open enrollment for first-year students. Science students can now take arts courses and vice versa.

August 27 & 28, 2020
Registration Pause Days, no activity can be completed on SOLUS.

August 31, 2020
Open enrollment begins for all students and first-year students will no longer have priority to first-year classes.

Sept 8, 2020
First day of classes.
SOARJoin us for our Summer Orientation to Academics and Resources (SOAR)
 
Join us for SOAR, a month-long summer orientation program for incoming first-year students and their parents and supporters. The program features a combination of modules and online events, including opportunities to connect with upper-year students, faculty, and staff.
 
See the schedule of Faculty of Arts and Science sessions on our webpage for First-Year Students, which also includes information on our free summer courses, ASCX 101: Living and Working in a Digital Age, new videos on our first-year courses, our First-Year Students Handbook, and additional information and resources. We will be continuing to add new videos and resources throughout July, so please check back often!
registrationRegistration Period
 
Your professors are planning for high quality remote course delivery in the fall. Registration will officially start on Monday, August 10 and enrollment appointments can be viewed in SOLUS starting on August 4. Information regarding the course timetable for fall/winter, and on how to enrol, will be sent to you shortly. You can also learn more at queensu.ca/artsci/undergrad-students/course-registration
fallFall 2020 Tuition Process Changes and Deadline Adjustments
 
The university has  implemented initiatives and process changes to help smooth out tuition and fee payments, awards disbursement and registration processes in response to operational changes due to the ongoing global pandemic. Learn more here.
meetastudentReminder - Meet a Student Online
 
There is still time to meet one of our current students to ask your questions and hear their stories. Our students are available to chat with you about their experience and how to make the most of your time at Queen's! 

Sign up to schedule a chat on QUartsci.com/connect. One of our ambassadors will contact you via your preferred communication channel.

Meet Lydia Elbatarny
Lydia Elbatarny is just one of our student ambassadors that is available for you to connect with.

contagionContagion Cultures Lecture Series
 
This series is a Faculty of Arts and Science collaboration which helps to  make sense of this pandemic through the expertise and insights of Arts and Science faculty members.

The series is live-streamed on Zoom every Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT/EST.

Upcoming events:

July 14 - Meat, Prey, Love: Human-Animal Relations in the time of COVID  - Samantha King, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
 
July 21 - Mindo, Face-Masks and Fax Machines: Japan and COVID-19 - David Murakami Wood
 
July 28 - Personal Data, Surveillance and Contagion - David Lyon, Surveillance Studies Centre, Department of Sociology

For more info on the series please visit:  https://www.queensu.ca/sps/events  
The 25th annual social policy conference from the  Queen's International Institute on Social Policy  will run virtually August 25 - September 10, 2020. 
 
This year's conference will be free for participants, and will explore how Canada and other OECD countries can rethink and reset critical building blocks of social policy in light of the fault lines exposed by the current crisis.
 
Registration opens in mid-July.  Learn more  here.
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