Students register for both the fall and winter terms first, before adding courses, by adding on Minerva, under Quick Add/Drop, the fall registration CRN of 179 and, after changing the term, the winter registration CRN of 190.
You must register (and pay fees) annually up to and including the term of graduation, even if you submit your initial thesis. Enrolment Services will remove your registration, if not needed. For example, a graduate student registered in the Winter term who graduates in February will have their Winter registration and fees cancelled at the end of February.
Prior to registration, all PhD Students must meet with their supervisor to approve their course selection for the academic year. It is important to ensure that your course selection helps you meet all of your degree requirements.
To see the course selection available for this year, please consult Minerva.
Courses outside of the Institute
With the permission of the Institute, up to 6 credits could be taken in other departments at McGill or other institutions. [It is possible for a PhD student to take a maximum of 12 credits from outside the Institute: 6 credits maximum in the MA programme plus 6 credits maximum in the PhD programme.] After permission has been granted, students should fill out the Request for Registration/Course Changes Form to inform GPS of the arrangement.
With the approval of your supervisor, courses taken with an IIS faculty member in other departments (e.g., History, Anthropology, Political Science) can count towards the course-work requirements in the same way as ISLA courses.
Note: in order to avoid over-specialization, no PhD student will be allowed to take more than 9 credits worth of content courses (i.e., courses that are not primarily devoted to language instruction) with a single Institute professor.
To take a course at another university in Quebec, you will need to use the online Quebec Interuniversity Transfer to apply for permission. You should have already discussed this with your supervisor and been given approval. Please advise the Student Affairs Coordinator of your plans.
Once you have applied online through IUT and have selected Islamic Studies as your home ‘approval department’, an email requesting permission will be sent to the Institute. The Student Affairs Coordinator, with the permission of your supervisor, will then submit the approval and your request will be forwarded through the IUT system to your host university.
Students wishing to do a substantial amount of work outside the Institute of Islamic Studies and have it credited to their programme should seek permission by directing a petition to the Director of the Institute who will present the matter to the staff for a decision. Permission to do work outside the Institute of Islamic Studies shall not be construed as grounds to ignore or neglect any area of Islamic Studies that is relevant to students’ research or important to the full development of their knowledge in Islamic Studies.
Registration of a Graduate in an Undergraduate Course (below 500-level)
If you require an additional course at the undergraduate level (for example, a 400-level language course needed for research), you will need to get permission from the GPD, the undergraduate department where you wish to take the course and the GPS by filling out the Request for Registration/Course Changes Form .
Students may maintain their connection with the Institute by annual registration for up to three years after completing enrolment requirements of three years if accepted to PhD 2 and four years if accepted to PhD 1, according to GPS’ Time Limitation regulations.