In exceptional circumstances, the Head of Department can ask the Dean/Director of the Faculty/Institute to allow a regular student to follow a course other than the one included in the program, notably when this student is not able, for legitimate reasons, to follow this course as defined by the program, or when the course offering does not allow him/her to attend in the semester during which he/she might finish his/her curriculum. In this case, the course is replaced with another one of the same level within the same major and within the program’s field of knowledge.

Notwithstanding the above:

• No failed obligatory course can be subject to administrative substitution, unless the concerned course cannot be offered anymore, due to a modification in the program.
• A student cannot be allowed to follow more than two substitution courses.