Secondary Mathematics advising documents (for students admitted Fall 2023):
Registration plans are provided because of the tight nature of the program - to ensure timely completion of your program, you are advised to follow the sequence of courses as outlined above.
The Four Year Overview is for most students, and it allocates space for completing all of the requirements in your Secondary Mathematics B.Ed. degree. Please note, students needing to complete a Foundation year will be starting in Year 0, thus, will be following a five year study plan. Please see below for further details.
The Two Year Overview is designed for students who have significant advanced standing, (typically students with transfer credits from other universities) and does not include room in your schedule for completing the subject area and elective course portions of the Secondary Mathematics program.
A complete list of courses, course descriptions and prerequisites can be found below.
Program Requirement:
The Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) – Secondary Mathematics program requires 120 credits and leads to teacher certification. Students who have not completed Quebec CEGEP, French Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate, or at least one year of university studies prior to commencing the B.Ed. must also complete a minimum of 30 credits of Freshman courses (in addition to the 120 credits for the program) for a total of 150 credits.
Note: Students entering this program from CEGEP or with Advanced Standing should have a strong background in their Mathematics courses. Students entering from CEGEP or with Advanced Standing without having completed two calculus courses and one linear algebra course (MATH 133, MATH 140, and MATH 141 or their equivalents) will be required to make up any deficiencies in these courses over and above the degree requirements.
The aim of the B.Ed. Secondary Education program is to prepare strong beginning teachers for the secondary school level.
This integrated program consists of courses in Education (including field experiences) and courses in the subject area of the teaching specialization. Students also take 6 credits of free electives. For all teacher education programs, course sequencing is highly structured. For this reason, the advising information in this eCalendar section must be used in conjunction with the summary companion document (Program Overview) found at http://www.mcgill.ca/dise/progs/secmath.
The Secondary Mathematics program provides students with the learning opportunities needed to become proficient Mathematics teachers.
Please note that graduates of teacher education programs are recommended by the University to the Quebec Ministry of Education for Quebec teacher certification. For more information about teacher certification in Quebec, please refer to the Faculty of Education section under "Overview of Faculty Programs", "Undergraduate Education Programs", and "Quebec Teacher Certification".
Freshman Program
Students normally complete 30 credits in their Freshman (U0) year.
The Freshman year is the time to take introductory-level courses in Mathematics, as well as to explore areas that are not normally taken as teachable subject areas within B.Ed. programs (e.g., Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, etc.). Students should also investigate the possibility of taking one of the First Year Seminar courses offered by the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Science.
Students in the Secondary Mathematics program must complete three Math prerequisite courses in their Freshman year, MATH 133, MATH 140, and MATH 141.
In addition, students select courses from the recommended list below or other courses in consultation with the Program Adviser. The French Second Language (FRSL) courses suggested require a placement test to determine the appropriate course level.
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EDEM 220 Contemporary Issues in Ed. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: An introduction to contemporary issues in education in local, national and international contexts, including a critical perspective on educational issues by drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 101 Beginners French 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: A comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students in any degree program having no previous knowledge of French. Learning to communicate at a functional level in a French-speaking environment. Short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- Prerequisite: Placement test
- Language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor if available.
- Placement test. No knowledge of French.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FRSL 101D1/D2, FRSL 103, FRSL 104, or FRSL 105.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 102 Beginners French 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: A comprehensive introduction to basic vocabulary, grammatical structures and speech patterns of written and oral French for students in any degree program having no previous knowledge of French. Learning to communicate at a functional level in a French-speaking environment. Short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- Language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor if available.
- Prerequisite: FRSL 101
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 207D1 Elementary French 01 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: This two-term course uses a task-based approach to provide students with authentic materials related to Canadian culture and prepares them for real life communication. Therefore, class time will be mostly dedicated to the completion of communicative tasks which often rely on the use of technology (mobile apps, blogs and other online tools). This course tackles different topics that students can relate to in their personal, social and academic life, and provides a review and further training in elementary language structures to develop their communication skills and digital literacy in French.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- 3 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 101 and FRSL 102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test required.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent
- Students must register for both FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 207D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 207D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 207D2 together are equivalent to FRSL 207
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 207D2 Elementary French 01 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: See FRSL 207D1 for course description.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 101 and FRSL 102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test required.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 207D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- FRSL 207D1 and FRSL 207D2 together are equivalent to FRSL 207
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 211D1 Oral and Written French 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: Language lab attendance required. Grammar review, comprehension, vocabulary development, selected readings and group discussions.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- 3 hours, plus language laboratory
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test
- Restriction: Not open to students from Québec
- Students must register for both FRSL 211D1 and FRSL 211D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both FRSL 211D1 and FRSL 211D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- FRSL 211D1 and FRSL 211D2 together are equivalent to FRSL 211
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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FRSL 211D2 Oral and Written French 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:French as a Second Language: See FRSL 211D1 for course description.
Offered by: French Language Centre
- Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test
- No credit will be given for this course unless both FRSL 211D1 and FRSL 211D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
- FRSL 211D1 and FRSL 211D2 together are equivalent to FRSL 211
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction A: Not open to students who have taken MATH 221 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: High School Calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 120, MATH 139 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 121 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 204 Judaism, Christianity&Islam 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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RELG 207 Intro to Study of Religions 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Religious Studies: This course is an introduction to classic and contemporary approaches to the academic study of religions. This includes perspectives from philosophy, theology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, phenomenology, and feminism. Students are also exposed to applications of these perspectives from visiting scholars who treat some aspect of a religious tradition in light of current-day interests and events. The primary objective is to introduce students to the principal theories and methods that have shaped our understanding of religion, its various meanings as well as its roles and functions in society.
Offered by: Religious Studies
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RELG 255.
- Winter
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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WCOM 250 Research Essay and Rhetoric 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Written and Oral Communication: Academic research-based writing across the disciplines. Article summary, critical analysis, rhetorical strategies, citation and paraphrase of academic sources, and editing for cohesion and clarity.
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 500 or CEAP 250 or WCOM 255. Only open to students in degree programs - all years and faculties.
- Intended for students whose first language is English.
- Entrance test: Short essay first day of classes.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Required Courses (60 credits)
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EDEC 201 1st Year Professional Seminar 1 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Orientation to the culture and community of school and to teaching as a profession. Focus on the general functioning of schools and complexity of the teacher role. Competencies and working professional portfolios will be addressed.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Corequisite: EDFE 200
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. Secondary and B.Ed. K/Elem. students only
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 215 English Exam for Teacher Cert.
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: The English Exam for Teacher Certification (EETC) is a Quebec Ministry of Education-required component of the B.Ed. degree. The exam is coordinated by an independent organization, the Centre for the English Exam for Teacher Certification (CEETC). Consists of a 2-hour exam designed to assess teacher candidates' competency in the language of instruction. Must be completed before the 3rd Field Experience. Students must register for EDEC 215 and register for the EETC on the CEETC website. Students who do not pass after four attempts require permission from the Internships & Student Affairs Office to re-take the exam.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 233 Indigenous Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: An exploration of Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy, primarily in Canada but also world-wide. Consideration of the diverse social, cultural, linguistic, political, and pedagogical histories of Indigenous communities. Examines how a teacher's professional identity and practice can be influenced by an understanding of Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- There is a $25 fee used to purchase essential materials needed to provide students with first hand insight into indigenous ways of knowing. Fees are also used to remunerate indigenous elders, knowledge keepers and/or cultural presenters that provide cultural or pedagogical expertise.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 247 Policy Issues:QC&Indigenous Ed 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: The organization of Quebec education, including Indigenous education, from historical, political, social, cultural and legal perspectives. The implications and contributions of policy decisions to schools, students, and families.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EDEM 405.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fifth lecture day.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 254 Second Prof Seminar (Sec) 1 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Preparation for the second field experience through development of basic practices in planning and teaching in secondary school classrooms. Competencies and professional portfolio will be addressed.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Corequisite: EDFE 254 or EDFE 254D1
- Restrictions: Open to B.Ed. Sec and concurrent B.Sc. and B.Ed. students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 260 Philosophical Foundations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Ideas essential for the development of a coherent educational theory and sound professional practice. Reflections on: the nature of the person, of reality, of knowledge, and of value; the aims of education, the nature of the school and the curriculum, the roles and responsibilities of professional educators.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EDER 400. Students who have taken or are taking EDEC 261 cannot take this course for credit.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 262 Media, Tech. and Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Orientation to the equipment and systems of educational technology. Examination of theories of educational technology, media education and technology education and the exploration and development of possible applications in school settings.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 351 Third Prof Seminar (Sec) 2 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Professional portfolios and competencies will be addressed. Preparation for the third field experience through engaging in the full spectrum of unit/lesson planning, critical analysis and self-reflection. Professional portfolios and competencies will be addressed.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Prerequisite: EDEC 254 or EDEC 254D1/D2
- Corequisites: EDFE 351 and EDES 350
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. Secondary, B.Sc. and B.Ed. concurrent students only. Not open to students who have taken EDEC 306.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 404 4th Yr Prof. Seminar (Sec) 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Preparation for the final field experience and entry into the teaching profession. Emphasis will be placed on developing the ability to demonstrate ethical and responsible professional behaviour in the performance of duties across all professional competencies. Final transition to showcase working professional portfolios will be addressed.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Prerequisites: EDEC 306 or EDEC 351, EDFE 351
- Corequisite: EDFE 451
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. Secondary students only
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDES 350 Classroom Practices 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Secondary Education: Competency-based discipline skills and methods of classroom management, emphasizing the relationship between theory and practice; the rationale for various approaches to classroom management; strategies for developing instruction that focus attention and reduce off-task behaviour.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDES 353 Teaching Sec. Mathematics 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Secondary Education: Provides insight and understanding of the Quebec secondary mathematics program. Focuses on key areas of what secondary mathematics teachers need to know and be able to do to support students' development of mathematical understanding (focus on mathematics content, students' reasoning, and pedagogy).
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Prerequisite(s): 18 credits in university mathematics courses at or above the 200 level.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDES 453 Teaching Sec. Mathematics 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Secondary Education: This course supplements EDES 353 for students who select Mathematics as a single teachable subject. Evaluation of learning in Mathematics, obstacles to learning, technological aids to learning.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDFE 200 First Field Exp. (K/Elem&Sec) 2 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Student Teaching: Students are assigned to a school for a "participant observer" field experience. Students are expected to apprise themselves of Field Experience dates, duration and responsibilities as outlined on the Internships & Student Affairs website at http://www.mcgill.ca/isa.
Offered by: Education - Dean's Office
- Corequisite: EDEC 201
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. Secondary and B.Ed. K/Elem. students
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasmine Zein
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EDFE 254 Second Field Exp. (Sec) 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Student Teaching: Supervised student teaching. Students are expected to apprise themselves of Field Experience dates, duration and responsibilities as outlined on the Internships and Student Affairs website at www.mcgill.ca/isa.
Offered by: Education - Dean's Office
- Prerequisite: EDFE 200 or EDFE 209 or EDFE 246 or EDFE 205
- Corequisite: EDEC 254 or EDEC 254D1
- Note: Expectations for this field experience, according to your program, can be found at www.mcgill.ca/isa.
- Restrictions: Restriction: Open to B.Ed. in Secondary English, B.Ed. in Secondary Social Sciences, B.Ed. in Secondary Mathematics, and B.Ed. in Secondary Science and Technology students.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDFE 351 Third Field Exp. (Sec) 8 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Student Teaching: Supervised student teaching in a school. Students are expected to apprise themselves of Field Experience, dates, duration and responsibilities as outlined on the Internships & Student Affairs Office website http://www.mcgill.ca/isa.
Offered by: Education - Dean's Office
- Prerequisites: EDEC 215, (EDFE 254 or EDFE 254D1/D2), (EDEC 254 or EDEC 254D1/D2), (EDES 334 or EDES 335 or EDES 353 or EDES 361).
- Corequisites: EDEC 351, EDES 350.
- Restriction: Students must have completed a minimum of 24 credits in their teachable subject area with grades of C or higher, as well as the corresponding first level methods course (i.e. EDES 334, 335, 353 or 361) with a grade of C or higher.
- Note: Expectations for this field experience, according to your program, can be found at www.mcgill.ca/isa.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasmine Zein
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EDFE 451 Fourth Field Exp. (Sec) 7 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Student Teaching: Supervised student teaching in a school. Students will be expected to assume a much increased responsibility for student learning, classroom management, and evaluation. Students are expected to apprise themselves of Field Experience dates, duration and responsibilities as outlined on the Internships and Student Affairs website at www.mcgill.ca/isa.
Offered by: Education - Dean's Office
- Prerequisites: EDFE 351.
- Corequisite: EDEC 404.
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. Secondary students only
- Note: Expectations for this field experience, according to your program, can be found at www.mcgill.ca/isa.
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Instructors
- Yasmine Zein
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EDPE 300 Educational Psychology 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): Selected theories, models, and concepts relevant to planning and reflecting upon educational practice and improvement. Overview of development, learning, thinking, motivation, individual difference, etc. In relation to applications in classroom teaching and learning, the complementary role of counsellors and psychologists, educational computing and technology. The Youth Protection Act.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDPE 304 Measurement and Evaluation 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): The purposes of examinations. Causes of complaints about examinations. Equalizing means and dispersions in distribution of marks. Standardized scores. The percentile system. Essay and objective-type examinations. Taxonomies of educational objectives. Validity and reliability: item analysis.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDPI 309 Diverse Learners 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Inclusion debates; review of the evolution of the history of inclusive education; models of development ( eco-systemic models); characteristics, teaching practices; teachers' roles in inclusive classrooms. Overview of characteristics, causes, needs, and teaching strategies for diverse and exceptional students, teaching and learning for differences in intellectual, emotional, behavioural, sensory, physical and learning domains found in effective inclusive classrooms. Working with families.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. and Concurrent students only.
- Offered through Continuing Education or Summer Studies.
- Prerequisite: EDPI 341
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDPI 341 Instruction in Inclusive Schls 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Developing, planning, implementing and evaluating effective learning programs for diverse learners, and consideration of their more general applicability. Adapting curriculum and instruction for learners with varying abilities, learning styles, and needs. Collaboration with students, families, and other educators (or stakeholders) in the instructional process. Application of adaptations at the classroom and school level for all students in inclusive schools.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. students only
- Also offered through Continuing Education.
- Prerequisite: EDPE 300.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Courses (3 credits)
3 credits selected as described below.
Multicultural Education
3 credits from:
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EDEC 248 Equity and Education 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: Introduction to and exploration of contemporary issues and theories about equity in education and society in Quebec/Canada from a range of perspectives, including the historical, political, social, and economic. Provides learning opportunities for future educators to critically reflect upon and engage with equity issues and concerns in relation to schooling, including the exploration of classroom resources and activities that foster anti-racism, anti-oppression and intercultural approaches.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EDEC 249.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDEC 249 Global Ed. and Social Justice 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Curriculum and Instruction: A cross-curricular, interdisciplinary approach to teaching/creating learning experiences for students. It will foster critical thinking and nurture lifelong global understanding, active engagement and participation in relation to questions of social, economic, and environmental justice, by infusing these issues in the classroom.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EDEC 248.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Secondary Mathematics Subject Area (51 credits)
Secondary Mathematics students complete 51 credits selected in consultation with the Program Adviser in one of two options.
Option 1
21 credits from the list of "Required Mathematics Courses" and
30 credits from the list of "Complementary Mathematics Courses"
Or
Option 2:
21 credits from the list of "Required Mathematics Courses" and
15 credits from the list of "Complementary Mathematics Courses"
And
15 credits of designated courses in another unofficial "teachable" subject area (English, Social Sciences, or Science and Technology - see an adviser for courses).
Required Mathematics Courses (21 credits)
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MATH 222 Calculus 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 141. Familiarity with vector geometry or Corequisite: MATH 133
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 150, MATH 151 or MATH 262.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 223 Linear Algebra 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students in Mathematics programs nor to students who have taken or are taking MATH 236, MATH 247 or MATH 251. It is open to students in Faculty Programs
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 228 Classical Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): This course is designed to reintroduce classical Euclidean geometry to tomorrow’s teachers. Topics include: Axioms and Euclid’s Elements, the triangle theorem, the Pythagorean Theorem and its extensions, basic constructions and similar triangles, Thales’ theorems and cyclic quadrilaterals, the centers of triangles, the nine-point circle, conic sections and analytic geometry, the prismatoid formula, the Platonic solids, non-Euclidean geometries.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Restrictions: Cannot be taken for credit by students in Mathematics and Statistics programs.
- Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 348 or MATH 398.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 315 Ordinary Differential Eqns 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order ordinary differential equations including elementary numerical methods. Linear differential equations. Laplace transforms. Series solutions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 222.
- Corequisite: MATH 133.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 325.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 323 Probability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 141 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for students in Science, Engineering and related disciplines, who have had differential and integral calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 356
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 324 Statistics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, contingency tables, nonparametric inference, regression, Bayesian inference.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 323 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 357
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 338 History & Philosophy of Math 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
Complementary Mathematics Courses
(30 OR 15 credits)
3 credits from:
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MATH 235 Algebra 1 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sets, functions and relations. Methods of proof. Complex numbers. Divisibility theory for integers and modular arithmetic. Divisibility theory for polynomials. Rings, ideals and quotient rings. Fields and construction of fields from polynomial rings. Groups, subgroups and cosets; group actions on sets.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture; 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 242 Analysis 1 3 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 254.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
* Should be taken in Year 1 or Year 2
27 credits from the list below for Secondary Mathematics Option 1 students or
12 credits from the list below for Secondary Mathematics Option 2 students
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COMP 202 Foundations of Programming 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: a CEGEP level mathematics course
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 204, COMP 208, or GEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 204 is intended for students in life sciences, and COMP 208 is intended for students in physical sciences and engineering.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
COMP 230 Logic and Computability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of Gödel's theorem.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDTL 520 Persp on Knowl in Math & Sci 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Education Teaching & Learning: A variety of perspectives on construction of knowledge in mathematics and science and how the products of scientific and mathematical practices are shaped by broader social, cultural, and political forces.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Prerequisite: Students must have completed, with a grade of C or higher, a minimum of 24 credits in Mathematics and/or Science courses.
- Restriction: Restricted to MATL Science & Technology, MATL Mathematics, B.Ed. Secondary Science & Technololgy and B.Ed. Secondary Mathematics students or by permission of instructor.
- Not open to students who have taken EDEC 646 or EDEC 647.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 235 Algebra 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sets, functions and relations. Methods of proof. Complex numbers. Divisibility theory for integers and modular arithmetic. Divisibility theory for polynomials. Rings, ideals and quotient rings. Fields and construction of fields from polynomial rings. Groups, subgroups and cosets; group actions on sets.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture; 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 236 Algebra 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Linear equations over a field. Introduction to vector spaces. Linear mappings. Matrix representation of linear mappings. Determinants. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues. Diagonalizable operators. Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Bilinear and quadratic forms. Inner product spaces, orthogonal diagonalization of symmetric matrices. Canonical forms.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 235
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 242 Analysis 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 254.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 243 Analysis 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Definition and properties of Riemann integral, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Taylor's theorem. Infinite series: alternating, telescoping series, rearrangements, conditional and absolute convergence, convergence tests. Power series and Taylor series. Elementary functions. Introduction to metric spaces.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 314 Advanced Calculus 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Derivative as a matrix. Chain rule. Implicit functions. Constrained maxima and minima. Jacobians. Multiple integration. Line and surface integrals. Theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss. Fourier series with applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 133, MATH 222
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 248 or MATH 358.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 316 Complex Variables 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Algebra of complex numbers, Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integral, Cauchy's theorems. Taylor and Laurent series, residue theory and applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 314 or equivalent and MATH 243.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 249, MATH 366, MATH 381 or MATH 466.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 317 Numerical Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Error analysis. Numerical solutions of equations by iteration. Interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration. Introduction to numerical solutions of differential equations.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 315 or MATH 325 or MATH 263, and COMP 202 or permission of instructor.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken COMP 350
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 318 Mathematical Logic 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 319 Partial Differential Equations 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order equations, geometric theory; second order equations, classification; Laplace, wave and heat equations, Sturm-Liouville theory, Fourier series, boundary and initial value problems.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 236, MATH 314 or equivalent, MATH 315
- Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 475.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 326 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Linear systems of differential equations, linear stability theory. Nonlinear systems: existence and uniqueness, numerical methods, one and two dimensional flows, phase space, limit cycles, Poincare-Bendixson theorem, bifurcations, Hopf bifurcation, the Lorenz equations and chaos.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisites: MATH 222, MATH 223
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 376
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 327 Matrix Numerical Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): An overview of numerical methods for linear algebra applications and their analysis. Problem classes include linear systems, least squares problems and eigenvalue problems.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 236 or MATH 247 or MATH 251, COMP 202 or consent of instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 329 Theory of Interest 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Simple and compound interest, annuities certain, amortization schedules, bonds, depreciation.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 340 Discrete Mathematics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Discrete Mathematics and applications. Graph Theory: matchings, planarity, and colouring. Discrete probability. Combinatorics: enumeration, combinatorial techniques and proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisites: MATH 235 or MATH 240 or MATH 242.
- Corequisites: MATH 223 or MATH 236.
- Restriction: Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 350.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 346 Number Theory 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Divisibility. Congruences. Quadratic reciprocity. Diophantine equations. Arithmetical functions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 235 or consent of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 377.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 348 Euclidean Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Points and lines in a triangle. Quadrilaterals. Angles in a circle. Circumscribed and inscribed circles. Congruent and similar triangles. Area. Power of a point with respect to a circle. Ceva’s theorem. Isometries. Homothety. Inversion.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 398.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 417 Linear Optimization 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): An introduction to linear optimization and its applications: Duality theory, fundamental theorem, sensitivity analysis, convexity, simplex algorithm, interior-point methods, quadratic optimization, applications in game theory.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: COMP 202, and MATH 223 or MATH 236, and MATH 314 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 487 or MATH 517.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 423 Applied Regression 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Multiple regression estimators and their properties. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Analysis of variance. Prediction and prediction intervals. Model diagnostics. Model selection. Introduction to weighted least squares. Basic contingency table analysis. Introduction to logistic and Poisson regression. Applications to experimental and observational data.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 447 Intro. to Stochastic Processes 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Conditional probability and conditional expectation, generating functions. Branching processes and random walk. Markov chains, transition matrices, classification of states, ergodic theorem, examples. Birth and death processes, queueing theory.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 323
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 547.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
MATH 523 Generalized Linear Models 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Exponential families, link functions. Inference and parameter estimation for generalized linear models; model selection using analysis of deviance. Residuals. Contingency table analysis, logistic regression, multinomial regression, Poisson regression, log-linear models. Multinomial models. Overdispersion and Quasilikelihood. Applications to experimental and observational data.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 524 Nonparametric Statistics 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Distribution free procedures for 2-sample problem: Wilcoxon rank sum, Siegel-Tukey, Smirnov tests. Shift model: power and estimation. Single sample procedures: Sign, Wilcoxon signed rank tests. Nonparametric ANOVA: Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman tests. Association: Spearman's rank correlation, Kendall's tau. Goodness of fit: Pearson's chi-square, likelihood ratio, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. Statistical software packages used.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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MATH 525 Sampling Theory & Applications 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Simple random sampling, domains, ratio and regression estimators, superpopulation models, stratified sampling, optimal stratification, cluster sampling, sampling with unequal probabilities, multistage sampling, complex surveys, nonresponse.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
-
PHIL 210 Intro to Deductive Logic 1 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Philosophy: An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.
Offered by: Philosophy
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
** Students cannot receive credit for both.
Unofficial "Teachable" Subject Area
15 credits
15 credits of designated courses for Secondary Mathematics Option 2 students (English, Social Sciences, or Science and Technology - see an adviser for course selection)
Electives (6 credits)
Note: Students who have chosen to do 36 credits in one teachable subject and 15 credits in another will use 3 credits of electives to take the Secondary Teaching Methods course needed for their second unofficial teachable subject.
Academic Orientation Schedule
Orientation gives you the opportunity to meet your Student Advisor and your peers in-person, ask questions about your program and gain knowledge about supports that are designed to help you succeed at McGill!
Orientation Dates for August 2024: TBA
Please note, attendance is mandatory.
Mathematics Subject Area Courses
MATH courses are taken in semesters where you find “subject area course” in your overview (above). The exact order in which you take your MATH courses is up to you, but we do provide the following course groupings to help you decide which of your MATH required courses you should take in your first year, and which MATH courses you should delay if you can.
B.Ed. Secondary Mathematics Course Advising
The below advising material is intended to help Secondary Mathematics students decide the order in which they take their required MATH courses. Students are advised to always pay attention to prerequisites when registering for subject area courses.
These grouping are recommendations only: you are able to take subject courses in any order if you have completed the prerequisites for them. You may find individual courses harder or easier depending on your aptitude and the nature of instruction.
First (in no particular order, except that we recommend students take MATH 222 in their first semester)
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MATH 222 Calculus 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 141. Familiarity with vector geometry or Corequisite: MATH 133
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 150, MATH 151 or MATH 262.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 323 Probability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, Bayes' Theorem. Basic combinatorial probability, random variables, discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distributions. Independence of random variables. Inequalities, weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 141 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Intended for students in Science, Engineering and related disciplines, who have had differential and integral calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 356
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 338 History & Philosophy of Math 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 348 Euclidean Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Points and lines in a triangle. Quadrilaterals. Angles in a circle. Circumscribed and inscribed circles. Congruent and similar triangles. Area. Power of a point with respect to a circle. Ceva’s theorem. Isometries. Homothety. Inversion.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 398.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Later (the rest of the required MATH courses, ordered from what is likely most accessible to least accessible)
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MATH 324 Statistics 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, contingency tables, nonparametric inference, regression, Bayesian inference.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 323 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 357
- You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 223 Linear Algebra 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of matrix algebra, determinants and systems of linear equations. Vector spaces, linear operators and their matrix representations, orthogonality. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of Hermitian matrices. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall and Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students in Mathematics programs nor to students who have taken or are taking MATH 236, MATH 247 or MATH 251. It is open to students in Faculty Programs
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 315 Ordinary Differential Eqns 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order ordinary differential equations including elementary numerical methods. Linear differential equations. Laplace transforms. Series solutions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 222.
- Corequisite: MATH 133.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 325.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 235 Algebra 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Sets, functions and relations. Methods of proof. Complex numbers. Divisibility theory for integers and modular arithmetic. Divisibility theory for polynomials. Rings, ideals and quotient rings. Fields and construction of fields from polynomial rings. Groups, subgroups and cosets; group actions on sets.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 3 hours lecture; 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
-
MATH 242 Analysis 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): A rigorous presentation of sequences and of real numbers and basic properties of continuous and differentiable functions on the real line.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or who have taken MATH 254.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Complementary Courses you can take anytime (i.e. you can take these early on)
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COMP 202 Foundations of Programming 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: a CEGEP level mathematics course
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 204, COMP 208, or GEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 204 is intended for students in life sciences, and COMP 208 is intended for students in physical sciences and engineering.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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COMP 230 Logic and Computability 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Computer Science (Sci): Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of Gödel's theorem.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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MATH 318 Mathematical Logic 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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MATH 329 Theory of Interest 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Simple and compound interest, annuities certain, amortization schedules, bonds, depreciation.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Winter
- Prerequisite: MATH 141
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
Foundation Year U0
Students whose highest level of education is high school (normally out of province) are admitted into Year 0 (U0) to complete the Foundation Program.
Foundation Program Advising
The Foundation Program consists of 30 credits of the students’ choice, verified by an advisor. There are no required courses in the Foundation Program, though the department recommends that students use the opportunity to take 100 or 200 level courses in the subjects taught in Secondary school, as well as to explore areas that are not normally taken as teachable subject area courses within B.Ed. programs (e.g. Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, etc.).
However, the following courses are prerequisites to the Secondary Mathematics program and must be taken if not already completed through International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement or other advanced standing:
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MATH 133 Linear Algebra and Geometry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Systems of linear equations, matrices, inverses, determinants; geometric vectors in three dimensions, dot product, cross product, lines and planes; introduction to vector spaces, linear dependence and independence, bases. Linear transformations. Eigenvalues and diagonalization.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction A: Not open to students who have taken MATH 221 or CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent.
- Restriction B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Restriction C: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 134.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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MATH 139 Calculus 1 with Precalculus 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Fall
- 4 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: a course in functions
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Students continue in MATH 141
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
- OR
MATH 140 Calculus 1 3 Credits- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial
- Prerequisite: High School Calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 120, MATH 139 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
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MATH 141 Calculus 2 4 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 121 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent
- Restriction Note B: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
- Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
The department also recommends the following courses:
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EDEM 220 Contemporary Issues in Ed. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Admin & Policy Studies in Ed: An introduction to contemporary issues in education in local, national and international contexts, including a critical perspective on educational issues by drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks.
Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
- A French Language course (FRSL 101, 207, 211). Placement Test Required
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WCOM 250 Research Essay and Rhetoric 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Written and Oral Communication: Academic research-based writing across the disciplines. Article summary, critical analysis, rhetorical strategies, citation and paraphrase of academic sources, and editing for cohesion and clarity.
Offered by: McGill Writing Centre
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CESL 500 or CEAP 250 or WCOM 255. Only open to students in degree programs - all years and faculties.
- Intended for students whose first language is English.
- Entrance test: Short essay first day of classes.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
If you are admitted into McGill with advanced standing (International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, etc.), those credits may be used to fulfill some or all of your Foundation requirements.
Foundation Course Verification
All Foundation students must have their Fall and Winter course selections verified prior to the start of classes. This can be done by email or by attending the group advising session in late August. To verify your course selection by email, send a message to advisedise.education [at] mcgill.ca with the subject “Foundation Course Selection” and your student ID number in the body.
Information for Advanced Standing Students
Students who attended University prior to coming to McGill may be eligible for transfer credit. Please verify the credits already awarded to you by Admissions on your Minerva Unofficial Transcript. If you believe that you are entitled to additional credits, please review the Advanced Standing Guidelines and speak with your advisor. Please use the following Request for Transfer Credit Form to keep track of your equivalencies.
Student Advising Support Team:
Tabitha Beedle, Academic Advisor
Susie Vodopivec, Academic Advisor
Grace Wong- McAllister, Academic Advisor
Frequently Asked Questions:
Where can I find help on how to use Minerva to register for courses?
Step by step instructions and a tutorial video can be found on this website. In addition, the Internships & Student Affairs office is available to help you with registration difficulties.
What is the difference between a U0 and a U1 student?
“U0” or “Foundation Program Student” is the term used to define students who have been admitted without advanced standing. Generally, this refers to students who are admitted to McGill from outside Quebec. Admitted students who have completed CEGEP are considered U1 students. Refer to the section titled “Foundation Program Advising” for further information.
When are my field experiences (dates)?
See the overviews above to find the semesters in which you should complete your field experiences. In addition, the start and end dates for all field experiences each year can be found on the Internships & Student Affairs website.
I'm having trouble registering for EDFE 200 and EDEC 201
EDFE 200 and EDEC 201 must be registered for simultaneously. To do this, make note of the CRNs of both courses (first column on left when you search for courses) and enter them both into the "Quick Add" feature on Minerva (step 2 on the registration menu).
I've written an English exit exam already, do I need to register for EDEC 215?
Yes, the provincial governement requires that all students in teacher education programs demonstrate their proficiency in the language of instruction. More information can be found on the Internships & Student Affairs website.
When do I need to start registering for courses?
Registration for courses for newly admitted students begins in June and ends a couple weeks after classes in the semester begin. A complete list of registration start and end dates can be found here.
What should I do if I'm having trouble registering for a course?
If you are getting an error such as 'program restriction' or 'reserve closed' when attempting to register for a course, first ensure that you are selecting the section designated for your program (if applicable: see the notes under the course in class schedule search on Minerva). If you are still having trouble, contact the department offering the course (Educational and Counselling Psychology for EDPE and EDPI courses, Linguistics for LING courses, English for ENGL courses, etc.). The calendar entry for the course will indicate the offering department.
If I am interested in taking French courses, where do I go to take the French Placement Test?
Information about French courses and the French Placement Test can be found on the French Language Centre website.
What advanced standing can I expect to receive from my previous university study? When will my advanced standing appear on my transcript?
In the Faculty of Education, students are eligible to receive advanced standing only for courses that are applicable to their programs. The admissions office makes decisions on advanced standing for all incoming students over the summer. Your advanced standing may not appear on your transcript immediately.
Until the admissions office has entered your advanced standing on your transcript, you are advised to attempt to get a sense of the transfer credits you might receive by looking at the program requirements on the program checklist (above). Students typically receive advanced standing for subject area courses rather than required education courses (unless their previous university education was in a teacher training program). Additional advice for self-assessing your transfer credits can be found on the Internships & Student Affairs website.
When the admissions office has assessed your advanced standing, you should review it, and if you feel that you might be eligible for additional courses, contact your advisor.
Program information is organized for three distinct groups:
Prospective Students Newly Admitted Currently Registered