Academic Plan
My academic plan is to switch from BScH Geography concentration to BSc Life Sciences. After my first year undeclared I did not choose a concentration and was placed in Geography. I have no interest in this discipline. I took courses that interested me but I was not able to focus on them and therefore was not able to achieve grades to my potential. After speaking to my academic adviser I looked in to two plans; either a Life Sciences degree online or a Biology degree. I decided to choose the Life Sciences degree plan because I have all the core courses required for this degree except one course (PHAR207). This course is offered in the winter term and I plan on taking it in the winter term. I further need 30.0 courses in electives to obtain my degree. Since I will not have the pressure of completing core courses I will be able to take lighter courses of my interests and increase my GPA. My academic adviser further confirmed that once I take the PHAR270 course I would have satisfied the LISC plan requirements and will not need to raise my CGPA to 2.5 in order to be eligible for the plan. I do however wish to repeat some courses to increase my CGPA as much as possible. If I do have enough time after the appeal decision has been made to take July-August courses, I wish to take WRIT120 and repeat PHGY170 in the July-August term. This will decrease my courses load for the fall and winter terms and potentially be eligible to graduate in the winter of 2017. I am now more open to the idea of seeking help when necessary so if a difficult situation were to arise I would most definitely seek help from a professional counselor so that the situation does not hurt my academics. I would further like to consider an honors program after I have met the BSc requirements. My academic adviser and I agree that I take it one step at a time and focus on the BSc first and then later consider options for honors.