396 undergraduate research project courses

Purpose

These courses are designed to increase undergraduate research opportunities by

• broadening the scope of research courses,
• making them available to more students, and
• making the undergraduate research component more interdisciplinary.

What kind of courses are these? Who can take them?

396 courses:

• contain a significant research component that requires substantial independent work by students;
• feature a final report worth at least 50% of the final grade;
• are elective courses;
• can be taken outside your own department (i.e., by students whose major is outside the offering unit);
• count towards the requirements of the Dean's Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research List (DMURL);
• can be taken after one term of undergraduate studies; and
• are not available under the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option.

General prerequisites

• At least one term of undergraduate studies, a CGPA of at least 3.0, or permission of instructor to waive these requirements.
• Open to students in any program offered by the Faculty of Science.
• A project proposal form must be completed by the student and instructor and approved by the unit head or his/her delegate* before the start of the term.(* For NSCI 396 and COGS 396, it is the Neuroscience Program Director or the Cognitive Science Program Director, and the Interdisciplinary Programs Adviser.)
• Instructors will list project-specific prerequisites with the project description listings.
• A student may take more than one 396 course, but cannot be supervised by the same instructor for two 396 Science courses. Each 396 course must also be for a different project.

Participating departments, schools, or programs

The following departments, schools, or programs offer 396 courses. See our list of projects currently offered.