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Student Affairs, Admissions
Exemption with Credit
The following list of automatic exemptions are entered for students in the Faculty of Social Sciences only.
Exemptions are subject to the discretion of the Faculty and qualifications may be deemed to be obsolete by the Faculty Board. Students who wish to apply for exemptions outside of the programmes and equivalent courses listed below may do so by submitting an exemption form to the Faculty Office. If the qualification was obtained from an external university the student would need to supply the relevant course outlines so that the courses may be assessed.
CAPE Exemptions
CAPE Exemption with credit is granted automatically for Grades 1 to 4 for CAPE Units 1 and 2 in the following subject areas:
CAPE Accounting Unit 1 ACCT 1002 Introduction to Financial Accounting
CAPE Accounting Unit 2 ACCT 1003 Introduction to Cost & Management Accounting
CAPE Caribbean Studies FOUN 1101 Caribbean Civilisation
CAPE Economics Unit 1 ECON 1001 Introduction to Microeconomics
CAPE Economics Unit 2 ECON 1002 Introduction to Macroeconomics
CAPE Information Technology Units 1 and 2 MGMT 1000 Information Technology Literacy
CAPE Management of Business Units 1 and 2 MGMT 1001 Introduction to Management
CAPE Sociology Unit 1 SOCI 1002 Introduction to Sociology I
CAPE Sociology Unit 2 SOCI 1000 Introduction to Sociology II
CAPE Applied Mathematics Units 1 & 2 ECON 1005 Introduction to Statistics* (from 2008)
CAPE History Unit 1 HIST 1601 The Atlantic World 1400 – 1600
CAPE History Unit 2 HIST 1603 The Atlantic World 1600 – 1800
CAPE History Units 1 and 2 HIST 1703 Introduction to History
Student Affairs, Admissions (automatic exemptions) – Social Sciences students only
Faculty Office (exemptions outside of your programme)
Please refer to your handbook for the list of BCC Associate Degree Programmes exemptions are granted for subject to courses taken in the programme and meeting the GPA requirements.
Holds are placed on accounts for academic warnings or other academic reasons. What you will be required to do is contact your Faculty Office (Academic Advisor), who will provide you with some counselling, after which you are given the pin to be used to release your hold on your account.
