The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering is pleased to offer online versions of several of our required first-year Core 8/TrackOne engineering courses for the 2025 Fall Term.
These online courses will be available to registered U of T Engineering students, as well as students from other institutions who wish to register on a non-degree, special student basis.
Online courses offer flexible scheduling, allowing students to view pre-recorded lecture videos at their own pace, and to complete assignments remotely (however, note that most midterms and final exams for 2025 Fall Term online courses will be held in person during the term and the December 2025 final examination period).
We recommend online courses for students who are skilled at managing their time while working independently and who are comfortable reaching out for assistance if needed.
The deadline to request enrolment in a 2025 Fall Term first-year engineering online course is Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
Online Courses Offered for Fall 2025:
- APS160H1 F: Mechanics — equivalent to CIV100H1F: Mechanics.
- Registration request form will be available here in August.
- APS163H1 F/S: Calculus for Engineers II — equivalent to MAT187H1S: Calculus II (available only to students who have completed APS162H1 or MAT186H1).
- To request enrolment in APS163H1F: Calculus for Engineers II, please email the First Year Office. Early Start students will be enrolled in APS163 automatically by the First Year Office before the Fall term begins.
- APS164H1 F: Introductory Chemistry from a Materials Perspective — equivalent to APS110H1F: Engineering Chemistry & Materials Science
- Registration request form will be available here in August.
Things to consider about taking an online course:
- These online courses can provide flexibility in your schedule, as they are typically fully asynchronous (with some optional synchronous sessions). This means you will create your own personal timetable for the course work each week.
- Online courses require the same number of hours of class time and work per week as an in-person course.
- Although students entering our program in Fall 2025 may have online learning experience at the elementary and secondary school level, university-level online learning is likely to vary significantly from courses you may have taken online previously.
- Students in online courses need to plan to be proactive and to reach out for help from professors, TAs and the First Year Office as needed.
- If you find that the online course experience is not for you, or you are struggling with the course content, online courses can be dropped by the published deadline to drop courses in the Academic Calendar. For the 2025 Fall Term, this deadline is November 11, 2025. If space is available, you may be able to enrol back into the in-class version of the course if you request to do so before the published deadline to add courses in the Academic Calendar, which for the 2025 Fall Term is September 15, 2025.
- Online course tuition fees are assessed at the same rates as in-class course tuition fees.* See the Student Accounts website for further information.
- Students taking first-year online courses in the 2025 Fall Term must be able to complete the regularly-scheduled in-person midterm(s) throughout the term, as well as the final examination for the course during the regularly-scheduled December examination period on the St. George campus in Toronto.
We are happy to help you with any questions that you may have about online courses in the First Year Office. We can be reached in person at FI 106 (222 College St.), or at firstyear@engineering.utoronto.ca or 416-978-4625.
The University reserves the right to withdraw courses or sections for which enrolment or resources are insufficient. See detailed policy.
Short link to this page: http://uoft.me/apsconline