Syllabus Bulletin - February 2025

For those who have not enrolled for 2025! You can enroll on the syllabus student portal by going to courses and registration, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and selecting continue. 

Anyone who has not enrolled by February 28, 2025 will be marked as inactive and required to pay both the re-application and re-enrollment fee to become a student in good standing again. There will be no exceptions.  

We are looking forward to the start of the next term. In preparation for that, the RAIC Syllabus National Office will be hosting a welcome meeting open to everyone in the Syllabus community. This is an excellent networking opportunity where you will get the chance to talk to students from other studios.    

In addition, we welcome any ideas and questions that you would like discussed in the meeting. You may send your suggestions via email to info@raic-syllabus.ca

The meeting will be held Thursday, March 6th at 6PM EST. The meeting is open to everyone. Pre-registration is required.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have any questions, please submit them in advance via email to info@raic-syllabus.ca 

This endowment fund was established in honour of Kiyoshi Matsuzaki FRAIC, 1943- 2012.  It awards the annual Kiyoshi Matsuzaki RAIC Scholarship to a student enrolled in the RAIC Syllabus Program. The Scholarship advances Kiyoshi Matsuzaki's personal belief in the future of the profession of architecture and his unyielding support of the new generation of students, the next leaders of our profession. 

This award is open to Syllabus students in good standing who have completed a minimum 50% of the program. 

Each application/ submission must include the following material:

• Submission form
• Academic transcript
• Curriculum Vitae / biography (max. 2 pages)
• Letters of support (minimum 1, maximum 3)
• A one-page statement by the applicant outlining why their application should be considered for the Scholarship
• Examples of academic and/or employed work (maximum three pages)
• A completed image index, providing captions and full credit information for each image, if applicable.

The scholarship award is $10,000. Learn more here. 

Submissions deadline is 10:00 p.m. ET, May 2, 2025.

The intent of this scholarship is to promote and encourage innovative, practical, scalable and transferable approaches to sustainable design among the next generation of architects in Canada.

This award is open to students in Part III of the RAIC Syllabus Program.

The below listed documentation must relate to a research, studio, or thesis project initiated and undertaken by the student applicant.   

1. School, Studio Coordinator /or Instructor, and student identification and contact information. 
2. Description of area of innovation research / design (max. 500 words)
3. Overview of methods used to carry out the work (max. 500 words)
4. Anticipated benefits, promotion, commercialization (max. 500 words)
5. Three-page description of project outcomes (text and graphics)
6. Declaration signed by student and professor confirming authorship of the submitted work
7. 100-word abstract summarizing the submission, to be used for possible promotional and / or marketing purposes.
8. A completed image index, providing captions and full credit information for each image, if applicable.

The scholarship award is $5000.00. Learn more here.

Submission deadline is April 21, 2025. 

The Canada Green Building Council’s mission is to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live, work and play by engaging a national coalition of industry leaders to accelerate the mainstream adoption of green building principles, policies, practices, standards and tools. The CAGBC Scholarship was established to promote and encourage sustainable research and design in Canadian Schools of Architecture. 

This award is open to Syllabus students who were active during the calendar years 2024 & 2025.

The scholarship award is $5000.00. Learn more here.

Submission deadline is April 30, 2025.  

This competition is open to all Syllabus Students.

The Canadian Architecture Student Association (CASA-ACÉA) would like to celebrate the excellence of our architecture students. CASA-ACÉA is calling for work to be showcased at the 2025 RAIC Conference this June in Montreal to continue our efforts to profile student work to potential employers, colleagues, and the public.

Projects must be completed as part of school curricula and be the original work of the student(s). Individual and group work is accepted, provided all group members are clearly stated. Only one submission will be accepted per group or individual. All projects must have been completed between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.

The submission form and competition brief can be found here.

Competition entry closes May 1st 2025 at 11:59pm EST.

Please email questions to submissions@casa-acea.org. 

All Syllabus Students studying in Parts Two and Three of the Program are required to be working under the supervision of an architect licensed to practice in their ROAC jurisdiction. All experience must be logged in Canadian Experience Record Book (CERB). 

Students are required to submit their experience logs every 900-1000 hours, within eight weeks of the experience period. Submissions made after this deadline, or totaling over 1000 hours, will incur a late penalty of $110.25 per log. 

Students should round their hours to the closest quarter of an hour (ie. in 15 minute intervals) on page 4 of the CERB Log. 

For further information on CERB submissions, please refer to the Architectural Experience Manual. 

Students approaching the end of their Part 1 studies, who have been accruing hours while working under a Canadian licensed architect, must submit their back entered hours immediately prior to starting Part 2. 

Reminder: Students may record up to seven continuous years of Canadian architectural experience accrued before  starting Part 2, and a maximum 4,900 hours can be back-entered as follows:  

• Part 2 - 2450 hours
• Part 3 - 2450 hours

All backlogged hours must be divided into 900-1000 hour logs. 

For more information on back-entering architectural experience see section 5.4 in the Architectural Experience Manual.

Access free Syllabus resource webinars at your convenience

RAIC Syllabus Moodle Tutorial

RAIC Syllabus Work Experience Webinar

RAIC Syllabus Thesis Proposal Webinar

RAIC Syllabus Senior Student Webinar

RAIC Syllabus Webinar

Athabasca registration

The registration deadline is the 10th of each month for history, theory, and technical courses with our educational service provider, Athabasca University. Courses will start on the 1st of the following month. 
 
Remember to register on the Syllabus Student Portal as well. Our systems are not linked with Athabasca University, so this does not register you twice or result in any fees. This simply allows us to maintain the student records and transcripts in our own system. 

Upon completing Athabasca courses, students can forward their Statement of Grades to the Syllabus office. However, official RAIC transcripts, certificates of completion, and diplomas will only be issued after receiving official AU Transcripts through the secure document sharing platform, MyCreds.  

Statement of Grades and AU Transcripts can be submitted to info@raic-syllabus.ca 

Jessica McCormick
RAIC Syllabus Registrar