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Courses
Course Exemptions

Registration - Winter 2025

All new students accepted for the Winter 2025 term must accept their offer of admission before they can register in their program of admission.

All graduate students (new and returning) must register for the mandatory registration confirmation course REGN RCGR for the Winter 2025 term (CRN 176) via Minerva. This course must be added for each term of registration. To avoid late registration fees, new students must register within the registration period listed below:

New students and readmitted students who have not registered by Monday, January 6, 2025 may still access Minerva to register late from January 7 to January 14. They will be charged a late registration fee.

All registered students (new and returning) may add/drop courses until the deadline to add/drop courses for each term.

*NOTE 1: All graduate students must register continuously in every term during their program, unless they request a leave of absence. Any student who does not register continuously will be withdrawn from the University in their first unregistered term. To resume their studies the student must then submit a request for readmission .

*NOTE 2: All new students must complete the mandatory online Academic Integrity Tutorial on Minerva. A reminder will be sent to new students who have not completed this tutorial at the end of February with a warning that a hold will be placed on their record in the third week of March. The hold will automatically be lifted when the student completes the tutorial.

*NOTE 3: All new students must also complete the mandatory online sexual violence education program. Details available at It Takes All of Us.

Courses

Read through our course requirements page and our course catalogue.

Course Exemptions

There are no credit transfers for core courses, only exemptions. This regulation also applies to students who graduated with an M.Sc. from IPN. Requests for course exemptions will be considered only for the following courses: NEUR 630 (Principles of Neuroscience I) and NEUR 631 (Principles of Neuroscience 2). If your request to be exempt from either one (or both) of these courses is approved, you will have to make up the credits with another course(s). 

Exemptions will be considered on the basis of content equivalency. That is, an exemption will be granted if and only if it is demonstrated that one or more undergraduate or graduate-level course successfully completed by the student shares a sufficient degree of content overlap with the IPN core course(s) for which exemption is being requested. In the event that a student requests exemptions from both courses, it is the responsibility of the student to provide evidence of equivalency for both courses. 

A course taken at another university can be used as evidence of equivalency for only one McGill course. 
 

Apply for an Exemption:

E-mail the IPN office (ipn [at] mcgill.ca) with the following:  

• Name and course number of the IPN core course(s) you are requesting to be exempt from;
• Evidence of content equivalency:
  •  Please provide your transcript and an electronic copy of the syllabus for each course.

Requests for exemption will be reviewed by the Curriculum Committee before a decision is made. If the decision is negative, you will receive written feedback justifying the decision. 

Please note that you must e-mail ipn [at] mcgill.ca with proof that you have passed your replacement course. Failure to do this will lead to your transcript not being updated.