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Complementary Courses

Important Notes

  • Please consult the current Undergraduate Calendar or the Minerva Course Catalog for all course restrictions (pre-requisites, course limited to students in particular programs, etc.).
  • Note: 100-level courses are not included in the Humanistic Studies Program (effective fall 2009).
  • Some courses not listed below may be permitted with approval of a Humanistic Studies Program Advisor.
  • Check Minerva for confirmation on when courses are offered.
  • Students are reminded that they may take only 12 credits outside the Faculty of Arts and Science. If a student is in doubt about this rule, he/she should get confirmation from the Office of Advising & Student Information Services.
  • If the course is available you can click on on the course number to view course description and other details.



The Humanities

Catholic Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Catholic Studies Program.

Canadian Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Canadian Studies Program.

Classics Programme
Website

All courses offered by the Classics Programme with the exception of introductory language courses.

Communication Studies

All Communication course offered by the Art History and Communication Studies Program with the prefix COMS.

The list of course offerings for the 2007-08 academic year is available here.

East Asian Studies
Website

All courses offered by the East Asian Studies Program with the exception of first, second, and third-level language courses.

Note

The following courses may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

EAST 214 Course not available
EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 362 Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 456 Course not available
EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 563 Course not available

English Literature

All courses offered by the Department of English with the exception of courses in Theatre Practice.

Note

The following courses may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ENGL 279 Introduction to Film as Art 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 370 Theatre Hist: The Long 18th C 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 371 Theatre Hist: 19th to 21st C 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 379 Film Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 382 International Cinema 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 393 Canadian Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 480 Studies in History of Film 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 481 A Film-Maker 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 484 Seminar in the Film 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 585 Cultural Studies: Film 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

English for Academic Purposes

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

EAPR 250 Course not available

French Language and Literature
Website

All courses offered by the Department of French Language and Literature with the exception of courses in translation.

German Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Department of German Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language courses.

Note

The following course(s) may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

GERM 369 The German Novel 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Hispanic Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Hispanic Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language courses.

History
Website

All courses offered by the Department of History.

History and Philosophy of Science
Website

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

HPSC 300 Indpend St: Hist & Phil of Sci 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Islamic Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Institute of Islamic Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language courses.

Italian Literature
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Italian Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language or translation courses.

Note

The following courses may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Jewish Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Jewish Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language courses.

Philosophy
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Philosophy.

Note

The following courses may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PHIL 336 Aesthetics 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PHIL 436 Aesthetics 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Philosophy and Western Religions
Website

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PHWR 300 Philosophy & West. Religions 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PHWR 301 Philosophy & West. Religions 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Quebec Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Quebec Studies Program.

Religious Studies
Website

All Religious Studies courses listed in the Arts section of the Undergraduate Calendar.

Note

The following course may also be used in the History of Fine Arts category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

RELG 345 Course not available

Russian and Slavic Studies
Website

All courses offered by Russian and Slavic Studies with the exception of elementary, intermediate, and advanced language courses.

Women's Studies
Website

All courses offered by the Women's Studies Program.


History of Fine Arts

Architecture

The following courses taught by the School of Architecture:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ARCH 250 Architectural History 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ARCH 251 Architectural History 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ARCH 354 Architectural History 3 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Art History

All courses offered by the Department of Art History and Communications Studies witth the prefix ARTH.

Film

The following course offered by the Department of English:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ENGL 279 Introduction to Film as Art 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 379 Film Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 382 International Cinema 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 393 Canadian Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 480 Studies in History of Film 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 481 A Film-Maker 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 484 Seminar in the Film 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 585 Cultural Studies: Film 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer



East Asian Studies

The following course offered by the Department of East Asian Studies:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

EAST 214 Course not available
EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 362 Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 363 Early and Medieval Japan 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 456 Course not available
EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EAST 563 Course not available


Italian Studies

The following course offered by the Department of Italian Studies:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ITAL 375 Cinema&Society in Modern Italy 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ITAL 477 Italian Cinema and Video 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Music
Website

All courses with the prefix MUAR (listed in the Arts section yellow pages of the Undergraduate Course Calendar) and the following courses:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

MUAR 201 Basic Materials:Western Mus 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUAR 202 Basic Materials:Western Mus 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUAR 211 The Art of Listening 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUAR 392 Popular Music after 1945 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUAR 393 Intro to Jazz 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUAR 399 Music and Queer Identity 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MUHL 184 Course not available
MUHL 185 Course not available
MUHL 220 Course not available

Philosophy
Website

Note

The following courses may also be used in the Humanities category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PHIL 336 Aesthetics 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PHIL 436 Aesthetics 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Religious Studies
Website

Note

The following course may also be used in the Humanities category.

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

RELG 345 Course not available

Theatre

The following courses offered by the Department of English:

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ENGL 370 Theatre Hist: The Long 18th C 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ENGL 371 Theatre Hist: 19th to 21st C 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer


Social Science

Anthropology
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Anthropology.

Biology

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

BIOL 210 Perspectives of Science 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Economics

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ECON 205 An Intro to Political Economy 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis&Applic 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 219 Current Econ Problems:Topics 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 221 Economic History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 223 Pol Economy of Trade Policy 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

ECON 225 Economics of the Environment 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Environment
Website

All courses offered by the McGill School of Environment with the prefix ENVR.

Geography

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

GEOG 200 Geo Persp:World Env Problems 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 203 Environmental Systems 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 301 Geography of Nunavut 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 303 Health Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 309 Course not available
GEOG 311 Economic Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 315 Urban Transportation Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 316 Political Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 381 Geographic Thought & Practice 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Note

Other Geography courses may be found under the Natural Science category.

Linguistics
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All courses offered by the Department of Linguistics.

Political Science
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Political Science.

Psychology

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PSYC 213 Cognition 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 215 Social Psychology 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 301 Animal Learning and Theory 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 304 Child Development 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 310 Intelligence 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 311 Human Cognition and the Brain 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 318 Behavioural Neuroscience 2 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 331 Inter-Group Relations 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 332 Intro to Personality 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 333 Personality & Social Psych 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 340 Psych of Language 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 341 The Psychology of Bilingualism 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 403 Modern Psych in Hist Persp 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Note

Other Psychology courses may be found under the Natural Science category.

Sociology
Website

All courses offered by the Department of Sociology with the exception of courses in statistics and quantitative analysis or methods.


Natural Science

Anatomy and Histology

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ANAT 205 Course not available

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

ATOC 210 Course not available
ATOC 220 Course not available
ATOC 250 Course not available

Biology

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

BIOL 210 Perspectives of Science 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

BIOL 215 Intro to Ecology and Evolution 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

BIOL 304 Evolution 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

EPSC 200 Course not available
EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EPSC 205 Course not available
EPSC 233 Earth and Life History 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

EPSC 243 Course not available
EPSC 250 Course not available

Geography

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

GEOG 201 Intro Geo-Information Science 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 205 Global Chg:Past, Pres & Future 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

GEOG 321 Climatic Environments 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Note

Other Geography courses may be found under the Social Science category.

Physics

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PHYS 200 Course not available
PHYS 204 Course not available
PHYS 205 Course not available
PHYS 206 Course not available
PHYS 214 Course not available
PHYS 224 Physics of Music 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PHYS 225 Course not available

Psychology

Course Number, Number of Credits, and Course Title

PSYC 211 Intro Behavioural Neuroscience 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 212 Perception 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

PSYC 308 Course not available
PSYC 317 Genes and Behaviour 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Note

Other Psychology courses may be found under the Social Science category.
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