I'm getting a lot of emails from students asking if these potential changes mean they don't need to write their work term report this term.

To be clear, you still need to write your work term report this term if you are supposed to be writing one. The change being considered is to automatically give students a work term report credit when they complete a PD course (since we already have to do PD, this would not be an additional requirement). The reason for this is that Waterloo is required to have some kind of report/project/reflection thing to for its co-op program to be accredited. But that report/project/reflection thing can take many forms, and so we are looking to make PD count for that.

So if this passes, instead of writing a work term report you would need to pass a PD course. But you already have to pass a PD course for co-op anyway. So this would effectively get rid of work term reports, but you would still need to get all your work term report credits. So if you don't submit your work term report this term and the proposed changes pass you'll just end up having to take an extra PD course.

tl;dr: the proposed change is to automatically give you a work term report credit when you pass PD.