The Department will remove students from a course, at any time they are discovered, if they do not have the prerequisites. See the Faculty of Arts and Science 2000-2001 Calendar course listings for prerequisites. They are listed well in advance and are the responsibility of the student. SOC101Y is rarely waived, because you would be in an upper-level SOC course with no academic Sociology background. Similarly, having taken a course in another social science is usually insufficient to warrant a prerequisite waiver.
Many instructors never waive prerequisites because their course depends on the background material.
Furthermore, many SOC courses are full every session, and it is questionable to accept students who lack prerequisites when there are students with the prerequisites trying to get in. Prerequisite waivers are not the same as transfer credits. If you received transfer credit for a specific SOC course, the Department of Sociology also grants you any prerequisite privileges that come with that course. Prerequisites are waived only in exceptional cases. Use the form to make a request.