Additional details:
If you would like to work on a CSC494H1/CSC495H1 project, you must take the initiative to ask faculty members whether they are willing to supervise your project.
Once you have found a faculty member to supervise your project, finalize the project details (including a title and short description of the project) with the faculty member and submit a request to the Undergraduate Office to enrol in a project course using our CSC494H1/CSC495H1 Request Form.
Note: For your first project course, you will be enrolled in CSC494H1; for your second project course, you will be enrolled in CSC495H1.
Who picks the project topic?
If you have a topic you're really interested in, you can propose it yourself. Even if the topic is suitable -- they aren't always -- you may still have to look around to find a professor who feels both willing and qualified to supervise it. Otherwise, the professor may well have a stock of suitable project topics. Picking one is part of the project arrangements.
How are the marks determined?
The project supervisor determines a mark and sends it to the Undergraduate Office. The mark is due by the same date as the mark for any other undergraduate course that does not have a final examination. Usually that means sometime early in the examination period at the end of the relevant academic session -- in other words, mid-December, mid-April, or mid-August.
What are the formal arrangements for enrolling?
Once you have a project title and project description ready, submit a request for enrolment here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/dcs/ugdocs/csc494register/
Submit the form by the Wednesday of the first week of the semester, in the term in which you wish to take the course. Your prerequisites will be checked, and when everything is in order, the Undergraduate Office will enroll you directly in the appropriate course.
