The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) has important information for new students on their website at http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/start/info.htm. This website has links to several resources, including:

1. The Essential Grad Guide
2. How to obtain a University of Toronto Student Card (T-Cards)
3. Information for New Students Pamphlet
4. Housing

Work Permits and University Health Insurance (UHIP)

Institutional letters required to obtain Work Permits and University Health Insurance (UHIP) can be from the Campus Graduate Administrator, Shelley Eisner (seisner@utsc.utoronto.ca ).

Registration

Continuing degree students and new students with final offers of admission can view their invoice on the Repository of Student Information (http://www.rosi.utoronto.ca/ ) in late July. New students are mailed registration instructions from the School of Graduate Studies and continuing students are asked to consult the School of Graduate Studies' website (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students.htm). Students must register with the School of Graduate Studies and pay/defer fees at the beginning of each academic session. Registration must be completed before students attend classes or otherwise make use of University facilities. A student is considered to be registered as soon as they have paid tuition and incidental fees, or have made appropriate arrangements for deferral of payment. A student's registration is normally for the full year (i.e. from September 1st to August 31st). Students with an entrance scholarship can defer their fees by completing a Request to Register without Payment (Fee Deferral) form and submitting it to the Graduate Administrator of Physical & Environmental Sciences. Students receiving sufficient OSAP or other Government Sponsored Student Loans may defer their fees until November by completing a Request to Register without Payment (Fee Deferral) form and submitting it to the Graduate Administrator of Physical & Environmental Sciences.

Course Enrollment

Instructions for course enrollment and the graduate course timetable will be available during Registration & Enrollment period. Students are automatically enrolled in the required research/thesis activity but must sign up for any DPES (EES) courses on ROSI (Repository of Student Information) via the Student Web Service (SWS). While academic advisors, faculty and staff are available to assist and advise, it is ultimately the student's responsibility to keep their personal and academic information up to date at all times and to follow all University, SGS, departmental and program regulations, requirements and deadlines. Not all departments will use ROSI for course sign up. Students wishing to take a course offered by another department that is not indicated on ROSI must first ensure that the course choice is acceptable within the context of the degree program in DPES with the approval of the Graduate Chair, and then contact the host department to register. If students want to take a graduate course offered by another graduate department at the University of Toronto, they need to complete an SGS Request to Add a Course form and submit it to the Graduate Programs Assistant-PhD so that it can be approved by the Graduate Chair of Physical and Environmental Sciences.

Core and Reading Courses:

Not all courses are offered every year. Those offered in 2012-13 are asterisked in the list below. Please refer to the Physical and Environmental Science Website for a list of current and future course offerings, along with descriptions of their content: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~physsci/menvsci/courses.html