U1 course selection (B.Sc.)

The steps on this page will guide you as you plan your first-year course selection as a U1 Bachelor of Science student. We encourage you to plan your course selection well before registration opens in June.

Selecting your program(s)
Need help selecting program(s)?
Course and credit load
Suggested electives
Selecting courses towards your program(s)
Registration

1. Selecting your program(s)

Warning: Even if you're in U1, you may not have completed all the Foundation Program requirements! Make sure you have by using the Foundation program planner!

B.Sc. students are admitted to a program group (such as the Physical, Earth, Math & Computer Science group). You can choose any program from within the group to which you were admitted. As a U1 student, you must choose a program at the time of registration.

When you register for your first year courses, you will choose (i.e. declare) your intended program(s) of study from within your admitted program group.

Choosing your program means selecting:

The program structure that best suits your academic interests (Liberal, Major, Honours or Joint Programs). Your program structure will determine how you are going to combine programs to meet the credit requirement for your degree.
The specific program(s) you wish to pursue within the chosen structure (for example: Biology, Environment, Physics, etc...). Note: students may only choose from the list of programs within the Program Group to which they were admitted.

Consult Faculty of Science Programs for details on the 4 program structures and specific programs available in each.

2. Need help selecting program(s)?

Students selecting a program should choose an area that fits their general academic interests and background. The Bachelor's degree is intended to serve as a general preliminary step in the pursuit of major career goals. As a Science graduate, you will be prepared to pursue careers in a variety of fields that will make use of your specialist knowledge - you may find yourself applying to graduate schools, preparing for medical or dental school applications or considering careers in a wide range of occupations. The flexibility of the degree will serve you well after graduation, but having so many choices can feel daunting. This is why we recommend you put some time and research into identifying your strengths and interests and discovering what options you are most interested in pursuing.

McGill offers many resources through Career Planning Services, from tools that allow you to explore careers by Major or by Industry, obtain information on job market trends, or complete a Self-assessment (which is the first and the most important step in choosing an occupation or major and planning your career.

Students who are still unsure about their program choice may wish to discuss degree planning ideas with:

Academic advisors (degree advisors and program advisors)
Instructors and teaching assistants
Career advisor
Mentors
Family
Friends

3. Course and credit load

The normal course load is 15 credits (4-5 courses) per term for a total of approximately 30 credits (8-10 courses) per year. As such, you should be planning to take 4-5 courses in the Fall term and 4-5 courses in the Winter term. When registration opens in May, you will register for both terms.

Some basic science courses are worth 4 credits - this means that taking 4 courses can still add up to 30 or more credits for the year. You may wish to take only 4 courses in order to avoid being overloaded. If this is the first time you are studying in English, we strongly encourage you to consider taking only 4 courses during your first term.

The credit rating of a course reflects the number of weekly contact hours. In general, a three-credit course indicates three hours of lectures per week for one term. Laboratory contact hours usually count for fewer credits. Credits also reflect the amount of effort required of the student and generally assume two hours of personal study for each contact hour. A typical semester full load is 15 credits, although 12 credits or more is considered full time.

Course and credit load regulations (as outlined in the Course Catalogue, formerly eCalendar) are as follows:

12 credits per term to maintain full-time status, eligibility for student visas, loans and bursaries;
Up to 14 credits (4 courses) maximum per term for students in probationary standing;
Up to 17 credits per term for students in satisfactory standing;
27 graded (non-S/U) credits per academic year (both the fall and winter terms) to be considered for renewal of entrance scholarships or for in-course McGill scholarships or awards, including Dean's Honour List; at least 27 graded credits that fulfill the degree requirements to be considered for faculty scholarships; 30 graded credits per year to maintain Canada scholarships;
Maximum allowed credits is up to 17 credits per term for students whose standing is Satisfactory or Interim Satisfactory.
Students whose CGPA is 3.5 or higher and who wish to take a course overload of up to a maximum of 19 credits are required to fill out an online request form and are strongly urged to consult their advisor. Allow several working days for the processing of your request. Note: Students in their first semester are not allowed to request a credit overload.

4. Suggested electives

You may choose electives from the courses listed below, once the required and complementary courses have been selected as part of the B.Sc. foundation program.

Note: Courses that are not being offered in the current year are not listed in Class Schedule on Minerva. Also, you should consult timetable information via Minerva for changes in course offerings or times and for the locations of the courses. Reminder: all courses have limited enrolment.

Math and science courses

Note: Some of the courses listed below are not suitable in the first term as they require university level prerequisites. Please check the Calendar course entries for further information about appropriate background, or the Program advisor (from specific departments), before registering.

Note: Some of the courses below are also listed under the list of approved Foundation program Science courses for the B.Sc. Foundation program.

Note: Science courses numbered 18X (e.g. EPSC 182) are considered general interest courses, and are not part of any program. These courses have no prerequisites.

Note: First Year Seminar courses (EPSC 199, PSYT 199) are designed to provide a closer interaction with professors and better working relations with peers than is available in large introductory courses. These seminars endeavour to teach the latest scholarly developments and expose participants to advanced research methods. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The maximum number of students in any seminar is 25, although some are limited to even fewer than that.

Courses

Program	Suggested electives
Atmospheric & Oceanic Science	ESYS 104. The Earth System. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Earth system science examines the complex interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. It focuses on physical, chemical, and biological processes that extend over spatial scales ranging from microns to the size of planetary orbits, and spans time scales from fractions of a second to billions of years. Winter 3 hours lecture Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ATOC 181. Introduction to Atmospheric Science. Credits: 3 Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of the Earth's atmosphere, weather and climate system. Topics include the fundamental processes that determine interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and biosphere; anthropogenic effects such as global warming, the ozone hole and acid rain; a perspective on future climate change. Fall and Winter 3 hours lecture Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 210, ATOC 214, ENVB 301 or NRSC 201. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ATOC 182. Introduction to Oceanic Sciences. Credits: 3 Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to ocean sciences with particular emphasis on physical oceanography. Topics typically include seawater properties, sea ice, air-sea interaction, seafloor topography, large-scale ocean circulation, waves, tides, physical control of biological processes, the role of oceans in climate, and impact of human activities. Fall and/or Winter 3 hours lecture Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ATOC 183. Climate and Climate Change. Credits: 3 Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice distribution characteristic of the current climate, as seen through observational data and computer model results. Physics of naturally occurring variability on time scales of months to years, such as El Niño. Global circulation models of the atmosphere, ocean and coupled atmosphere-ocean system, and global warming simulations. Winter 3 hours lecture Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 230. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ATOC 184. Science of Storms. Credits: 3 Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Physical processes associated with severe and hazardous weather affecting the Earth. Topics are taught at a fundamental level, without equations, to provide a complete and up-to-date understanding of such extreme events as blizzards, ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and droughts. Winter Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 240, or the combination of ATOC 214 and ATOC 215. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ATOC 185. Natural Disasters. Credits: 3 Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course examines the science behind different types of disasters and our ability or inability to control and predict such events. From this course the student will gain an appreciation of natural disasters beyond the newspaper headlines and will better understand how the effects of disasters can be reduced. Fall 3 hours lecture This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with EPSC 185. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 185. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Biology	BIOL 111. Principles: Organismal Biology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the phylogeny, structure, function and adaptation of unicellular organisms, plants and animals in the biosphere. Fall 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UK or equivalent; or BIOL 115. This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00UK Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 112. Cell and Molecular Biology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The cell: ultrastructure, division, chemical constituents and reactions. Bioenergetics: photosynthesis and respiration. Principles of genetics, the molecular basis of inheritance and biotechnology. Winter 2 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory Labs are held weekly, starting from the second week of term. Attendance at the first lab is mandatory to confirm registration in the course. This course serves as an alternative to CEGEP objective code 00XU Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CEGEP objective 00XU or equivalent;or BIOL 115; or AEBI 122 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 200. Molecular Biology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The physical and chemical properties of the cell and its components in relation to their structure and function. Topics include: protein structure, enzymes and enzyme kinetics; nucleic acid replication, transcription and translation; the genetic code, mutation, recombination, and regulation of gene expression. Fall 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or equivalent Corequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent, or CHEM 204 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 201. Cell Biology and Metabolism. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course introduces the student to our modern understanding of cells and how they work. Major topics to be covered include: photosynthesis, energy metabolism and metabolic integration; plasma membrane including secretion, endocytosis and contact mediated interactions between cells; cytoskeleton including cell and organelle movement; the nervous system; hormone signaling; the cell cycle. Winter 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial Prerequisite: BIOL 200. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212 or BIOC 212 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 202. Basic Genetics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to basic principles, and to modern advances, problems and applications in the genetics of higher and lower organisms with examples representative of the biological sciences. Winter 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial per week Prerequisite: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219 Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking LSCI 204 or BIOL 302. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 205. Functional Biology of Plants and Animals. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Unified view of form and function in animals and plants. Focus on how the laws of chemistry and physics illuminate biological processes relating to the acquisition of energy and materials and their use in movement, growth, development, reproduction and responses to environmental stress. Winter 3 hours lecture, optional conference hour Prerequisites: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219 or permission of the instructor Corequisite: ANAT 212/BIOC 212 or BIOL 201 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 206. Methods in Biology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to modern methods used in organismal biology, including ecological sampling, experimental methods and statistics. Particular emphasis is on ways of thinking about the design of sampling programs and the analyses of data to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data. Fall 1. 2 hours lecture, 2. 3 hours laboratory Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 210. How Science Works Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the thinking, language, and practices of scientists. Exploration of science as a way of understanding the world, its methodological and philosophical foundations, its limitations, and how science functions in the context of society and politics. Emphasis is placed on the scientific claims and science- related issues that we encounter as citizens. Topics include scientific methods and reasoning, research ethics, probability and risk, science funding, science communication and publishing, and misinformation. Fall 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder BIOL 240. Monteregian Flora. Credits: 3 Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Field studies of ferns, fern allies, conifers and flowering plants; the use of keys for plant identification. Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or permission Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PLNT 358 Note: Taught at the Gault Nature Reserve. Contact instructor for specific dates, logistics: (virginie.millien [at] mcgill.ca (virginie[dot]millien[at]mcgill[dot]ca)). This course is offered in the summer. This course, given at the University’s Gault Nature Reserve in Mont St. Hilaire, has an additional fee of $485.56 which includes a hand lens, a textbook, handouts, lodging and supper each day. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Chemistry	CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1. Credits: 4 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table. Fall Prerequisites/corequisites: High school mathematics and physics or permission of the instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite Each lab section is limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 120. General Chemistry 2. Credits: 4 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry. Winter Prerequisites/corequisites: High school level mathematics and physics, or permission of the instructor; CHEM 110 is not a prerequisite Each lab section is limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 180. World of Chemistry: Environment. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Risks, water, air pollution, sick-building syndrome, the chemistry of the car, energy (fossil fuel, nuclear), nano and biotechnology, smells, garbage and human waste, dental chemistry and green chemistry. Winter No prerequisites Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 181. World of Chemistry: Food. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A series of lectures on the historical, practical, and simple chemical aspects of: food, food additives; vitamins; minerals, diet and cancer; dieting; food-borne illnesses, health food and cooking. Winter 3 lecture hours/week Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 150. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 182. World of Chemistry: Technology. CHEM 182 World of Chemistry: Technology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Aspects of chemical technology including publishing of scientific articles, rocketry, space travel, materials (metals, plastics art), household products, forensic science, money, combustion science, computers and cosmetics. Fall 3 lecture hours/week Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 160. CHEM 183. World of Chemistry: Drugs. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Drug history and marketing, over the counter drugs (e.g. aspirin, cough and cold remedies, allergy preparations), street and heart drugs, mental illness, hormones, brain chemistry and diabetes. Fall 3 lecture hours/week Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 203. Survey of Physical Chemistry. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The fundamentals of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with applications to biomolecular systems. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of biological processes. Fall Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent. Restrictions: Intended for students in biological science programs requiring only one course in physical chemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204 or CHEM 213 or CHEM 223 and CHEM 243. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 204. Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Similar to CHEM 223/CHEM 243. Emphasis on the use of biological examples to illustrate the principles of physical chemistry. The relevance of physical chemistry to biology is stressed. Fall, Winter Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent and one full course in calculus Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 203 or CHEM 213. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 212. Introductory Organic Chemistry 1. Credits: 4 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry. Fall, Summer Prerequisite: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent. Restriction: Not open to students registered in Chemistry or Biochemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 211, CHEM 242, or equivalent. Each lab section is limited enrolment Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page (https://www.mcgill.ca/transfercredit/prospective/cegep). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 214. Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Emphasis is placed on the use of biological examples to illustrate the principles of physical chemistry. The relevance of physical chemistry to biology is stressed. Winter Prerequisites: CHEM 204 or CHEM 223/CHEM 243. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. CHEM 219. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the basic topics in atmospheric chemistry. The fundamentals of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and its chemical reactions. Selected topics such as; a smog chamber, acid rain, and the ozone hole, will be examined. Winter Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, and one of MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150, or a CEGEP DEC in Science, or permission of instructor. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 219, CHEM 419, or ATOC 419 Offered in even years. Students should register in ATOC 219 in odd years Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 222. Introductory Organic Chemistry 2. Credits: 4 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics. Winter, Summer Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or CHEM 242 or equivalent. Restriction: Not open to Chemistry or Biochemistry students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 234 or CHEM252. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. Course information not available. CHEM 253. Introductory Physical Chemistry Laboratory. Credits: 1 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Illustrative experiments in physical chemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM 110, CHEM 120 or equivalent. Corequisite: CHEM 204 or permission of instructor. Restriction: Only open to B.A. & Sc.; Major Concentration in Chemistry students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 273. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 281. Inorganic Chemistry 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Basic concepts of electronic structure and molecular bonding will be developed and applied to the understanding of common materials. Acid-base chemistry. Survey of the chemistry of the main group elements. Introduction to coordination and organometallic chemistry. Winter Corequisite: MATH 133 Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CHEM 287. Introductory Analytical Chemistry. CHEM 287 Introductory Analytical Chemistry. Credits: 2 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey of methods of analysis including theory and practice of semimicro qualitative analysis and representative gravimetric, volumetric and instrumental methods. Fall Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, or CHEM 115, or equivalent. Corequisite: Students in CHEM 287 are required to take the laboratory, CHEM 297, either simultaneously with CHEM 287 or in the term following CHEM 287. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 257D1/D2 or CHEM 277D1/D2. CHEM 297. Introductory Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. CHEM 297 Introductory Analytical Chemistry Laboratory. Credits: 1 Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introductory experiments in analytical chemistry emphasizing classical and instrumental methods of quantitative analysis. Fall, Winter Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, or CHEM 115, or equivalent. Pre- or Co-requisite: CHEM 287. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 257D1/D2 or CHEM 277D1/D2.
Computer Science	COMP 102. Computers and Computing. COMP 102 Computers and Computing. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A course for students with no previous knowledge of computer science. The impact of computers on society. Web design and dynamic content. The inner workings of computers (hardware). Networking principles. Algorithm design and programming. A look at how computers store data (image, sound, and video). Software distribution policies and mechanisms. For syllabus and further details refer to http://ulla.mcgill.ca Restriction Note F: Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102. Restrictions: Credit will not be given for COMP 102 if it is taken concurrently with, or after, any of: COMP 202, COMP 203, COMP 208, COMP 250. Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102. 3 hours Prerequisite: high school level mathematics course on functions. Restrictions: Credit will not be given for COMP 102 if it is taken concurrently with, or after, any of: COMP 202, COMP 203, COMP 208, COMP 250. Management students cannot receive credit for COMP 102. COMP 189. Computers and Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description How computer technologies shape social notions such as ownership, safety, and privacy. Emphasis is on computer science powering both day-to-day technologies (e.g., online social media) and those in the news (e.g., cyberwar). Discussions will investigate technology and social issues in order to understand both. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMP 202. Foundations of Programming. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. 3 hours 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. To take COMP 202, students should have a solid understanding of pre-calculus fundamentals such as polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMP 206. Introduction to Software Systems. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Comprehensive overview of programming in C, use of system calls and libraries, debugging and testing of code; use of developmental tools like make, version control systems. 3 hours Prerequisite: COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 or CEGEP objective 0F01 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMP 230. Logic and Computability. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. 3 hours Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMP 250. Introduction to Computer Science. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Object oriented programming in Java: classes and objects, interfaces, inheritance. Data structures and abstract data types: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary trees,binary search trees, heaps, hash tables, graphs. Recursive and non-recursive algorithms and their asymptotic complexity: searching and sorting, tree and graph traversal. Mathematical tools: induction, recurrence relations. Prerequisite(s): COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 or CEGEP objective 0F01 or equivalent Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 250. 3 hours Students who plan to study Computer Science beyond COMP 250 are encouraged to take MATH 140 and/or MATH 133 as soon as possible. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMP 280. History and Philosophy of Computing. Credits: 3 Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A history of early mathematical computation. Symbolic logic and computation. Modern computer systems and networks. The rise of the internet. 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Earth & Planetary Sciences	ESYS 104. The Earth System. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Earth system science examines the complex interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. It focuses on physical, chemical, and biological processes that extend over spatial scales ranging from microns to the size of planetary orbits, and spans time scales from fractions of a second to billions of years. Winter 3 hours lecture Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EPSC 180. The Terrestrial Planets. EPSC 180 The Terrestrial Planets. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A comparative survey of the planets of our solar system with an emphasis on the terrestrial planets and their implications for the Earth as a planet. Topics include: structure and origin of the solar system, meteorites, and comparisons of the terrestrial planets in terms of their rotational properties, magnetic fields, atmospheres, surface histories, internal structure, chemical composition, volcanism, and tectonics. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken EPSC 200. Winter 3 hours lectures EPSC 181. Environmental Geology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the relationship of geological processes and materials to the human environment; geologic hazards; hydrogeology; impacts of waste disposal, energy use, land resource development. Winter 3 hours lectures Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EPSC 185. Natural Disasters. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course examines the science behind different types of disasters and our ability or inability to control and predict such events. From this course the student will gain an appreciation of natural disasters beyond the newspaper headlines, and will better understand how the effects of disasters can be reduced. Fall 3 hours lectures This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with ATOC 185. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ATOC 185. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EPSC 186. Astrobiology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Astrobiology is the study of life throughout the universe. The course will cover the search for, and characterization of, habitable worlds. We will explore the formation and evolution of stars and planets, the astronomical and geological factors that impact a planet's habitability, the evolution of life on Earth, and the potential for biological evolution beyond an organism's planet of origin.. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 182, ANAT 182, or PHYS 186. 1.Winter 2.This is a double-prefix course and is identical in content with PHYS 186. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. EPSC 201. Understanding Planet Earth. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Learn about Earth's origin, its place in the solar system, its internal structure, rocks and minerals, the formation of metal and fossil fuel deposits, and the extinction of dinosaurs. Discover the impact of the volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and mountain chains on Earth's past, present and future. Explore 125 million-year-old Mount Royal. Fall or Winter 3 hours lectures; afternoon field trips Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking EPSC 233. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EPSC 233. Earth and Life Through Time Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Interpretation of stratified rocks; history of Earth with special emphasis on the regions of North America; outline of the history of life recorded in fossils. Fall 3 hours lectures Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EPSC 334. Invertebrate Paleontology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Preservation of fossils; the fossil record of invertebrates; use of fossils in stratigraphy and paleoecology; fossils in evolutionary studies. Fossils of invertebrates are studied in the laboratory. Winter 2 hours lectures and one laboratory period Prerequisite: EPSC 201 or EPSC 233 or ENVR 202 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Faculty of Science	FSCI 198. Climate Crisis and Climate Actions. Credits: 3 Offered by: Science (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Fundamentals of the climate change problem, critically assessing climate information published in research and public media, and engaging in personal and collective climate actions. Emphasis is placed on varied social, economic, and disciplinary perspectives including those of Indigenous peoples. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Geography	ESYS 104. The Earth System. Credits: 3 Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Earth system science examines the complex interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. It focuses on physical, chemical, and biological processes that extend over spatial scales ranging from microns to the size of planetary orbits, and spans time scales from fractions of a second to billions of years. Winter 3 hours lecture Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 201. Introductory Geo-Information Science. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to Geographic Information Systems. The systematic management of spatial data. The use and construction of maps. The use of microcomputers and software for mapping and statistical work. Air photo and topographic map analyses. Fall 3 hours and lab Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 203. Environmental Systems. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to system-level interactions among climate, hydrology, soils and vegetation at the scale of drainage basins, including the study of the global geographical variability in these land-surface systems. The knowledge acquired is used to study the impact on the environment of various human activities such as deforestation and urbanisation. Fall 3 hours Restriction: Because of quantitative science content of course, not recommended for B.A. and B.Ed. students in their U0 year. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 205. Global Change: Past, Present and Future. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An examination of global change, from the Quaternary Period to the present day involving changes in the physical geography of specific areas. Issues such as climatic change and land degradation will be discussed, with speculations on future environments. Winter 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 221. Environment and Health. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Key chemical, physical, and social stressors in the environment, and how these affect the health of people and ecosystems. Hazards in air, water, food, and work environments. Historic, current, and future need for environmental health science, from scientific, personal, and practical perspectives. 3 hours Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221. Students enrolled in main campus programs register as GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register as NRSC 221. Course is only offered at Macdonald campus. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 272. Earth's Changing Surface. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the study of landforms as products of geomorphic and geologic systems acting at and near the Earth's surface. The process geomorphology approach will be used to demonstrate how landforms of different geomorphic settings represent a dynamic balance between forces acting in the environment and the physical properties of materials present. Fall 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Mathematics and Statistics	MATH 133. Linear Algebra and Geometry. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: a course in functions Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UQ or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 123, except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 139. Calculus 1 with Precalculus. Credits: 4 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Review of trigonometry and other Precalculus topics. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications. Fall 4 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: a course in functions Restriction: 1) Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent.2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 140 or MATH 150. 3) 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 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 140. Calculus 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Review of functions and graphs. Limits, continuity, derivative. Differentiation of elementary functions. Antidifferentiation. Applications. 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Prerequisite: High School Calculus Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken MATH139 or MATH 150 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) 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 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 141. Calculus 2. Credits: 4 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The definite integral. Techniques of integration. Applications. Introduction to sequences and series. Prerequisites: MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent. Restriction(s): 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 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 150. Calculus A. Credits: 4 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Functions, limits and continuity, differentiation, L'Hospital's rule, applications, Taylor polynomials, parametric curves, functions of several variables. Fall 3 hours lecture, 2 hours tutorial Students with no prior exposure to vector geometry are advised to take MATH 133 concurrently. Intended for students with high school calculus who have not received six advanced placement credits Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 139 or MATH 140 or CEGEP objective 00UN or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122,except by permission of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. MATH 150 and MATH 151 cover the material of MATH 139, MATH 140, MATH 141, MATH 222 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 151. Calculus B. Credits: 4 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Integration, methods and applications, infinite sequences and series, power series, arc length and curvature, multiple integration. Winter 3 hours lecture; 2 hours tutorial Each Tutorial section is enrolment limited Prerequisite: MATH 150 Restriction(s): 1) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 141 or CEGEP objective 00UP or equivalent. 2) Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 122, except by permission of the Department of Mathematic sand Statistics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 203. Principles of Statistics 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Examples of statistical data and the use of graphical means to summarize the data. Basic distributions arising in the natural and behavioural sciences. The logical meaning of a test of significance and a confidence interval. Tests of significance and confidence intervals in the one and two sample setting (means, variances and proportions). No calculus prerequisites Restriction: This course is intended for students in all disciplines. For extensive course restrictions covering statistics courses see Section 3.6.1 of the Arts and of the Science sections of the calendar regarding course overlaps. 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. Students should consult http://www.mcgill.ca/students/transfercredit for information regarding transfer credits for this course. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 204. Principles of Statistics 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The concept of degrees of freedom and the analysis of variability. Planning of experiments. Experimental designs. Polynomial and multiple regressions. Statistical computer packages (no previous computing experience is needed). General statistical procedures requiring few assumptions about the probability model. Winter Prerequisite: MATH 203 or equivalent. No calculus prerequisites Restriction: This course is intended for students in all disciplines. For extensive course restrictions covering statistics courses see Section 3.6.1 of the Arts and of the Science sections of the calendar regarding course overlaps. 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. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 222. Calculus 3. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. Prerequisite: MATH 141. Familiarity with vector geometry or Corequisite: MATH 133 Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 150, MATH 151, MATH206, or MATH 262. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder MATH 223. Linear Algebra. Credits: 3 Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. 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 206, MATH 236, MATH 247, or MATH 251. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Physics	PHYS 101. Introductory Physics - Mechanics. Credits: 4 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introductory course in physics without calculus, covering mechanics (kinematics, dynamics, energy, and rotational motion), oscillations and waves, sound, light, and wave optics. Fall 3 hours lectures; 2 hours laboratory; tutorial sessions Restriction: Not open to students taking or having taken PHYS 131, CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent Laboratory sections have limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 102. Introductory Physics - Electromagnetism. Credits: 4 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Electric field and potential. D.C. circuits and measurements. Capacitance. Magnetic field and induction. Electromagnetic waves and geometrical optics. Winter 3 hours lectures; 2 hours laboratory; tutorial sessions Prerequisite: PHYS 101. Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course. Restriction: Not open to students taking or having taken PHYS 142, CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent Laboratory sections have limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 131. Mechanics and Waves. Credits: 4 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The basic laws and principles of Newtonian mechanics; oscillations, waves, and wave optics. Fall 3 hours lectures; 1 hour tutorial, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions Corequisite: MATH 139 or higher level calculus course. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 101, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00UR or equivalent. Laboratory sections have limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 142. Electromagnetism and Optics. Credits: 4 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The basic laws of electricity and magnetism; geometrical optics. Winter 3 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory in alternate weeks; tutorial sessions Prerequisite: PHYS 131. Corequisite: MATH 141 or higher level calculus course. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 102, or who have taken CEGEP objective 00US or equivalent. Laboratory sections have limited enrolment Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 180. Space, Time and Matter. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A nonmathematical, conceptual look at physics, beginning with the idea of space and time, continuing with the historical development of Newtonian mechanics of celestial motion, electricity and magnetism, ether and light, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, matter and antimatter, cosmology and the big bang. Fall 3 hours lectures Restrictions: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 200. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 181. Everyday Physics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The day-to-day physics behind the materials and phenomena around us. Demonstrations of the intriguing properties of materials and the simple physical theories explaining them. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 182. Our Evolving Universe. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An elementary course on astronomy and astrophysics. Positional astronomy and finding your way about the sky. Our evolving picture of the universe. Properties and origins of the solar system. The Big Bang and modern cosmology. Fall Restriction: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 204 or PHYS 205. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 183. The Milky Way Inside and Out. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An elementary course on astronomy. Star origins and star formation, supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. Galaxies, their structure and their interactions. Stellar clusters, the interstellar medium. Galactic classification and galaxy evolution. Winter Restriction: Not open to students in a Physics program. Not open to students who have taken PHYS 204 or PHYS 206. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHYS 184. Energy and the Environment. PHYS 184 Energy and the Environment. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Energy fundamentals, generation of electricity, heat engines, fossil fuel production and consumption, local and global effects, economic impact, transportation, and pollution and environmental impact of energy use. Non-renewable energy sources (fossil fuels, nuclear) and renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal). Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 228. PHYS 224. Physics of Music. Credits: 3 Offered by: Physics (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the physics of music. Properties of sound and their perception as pitch, loudness, and timbre. Dissonance, consonance, and musical intervals and tuning. Physics of sound propagation and reflection. Resonance. Acoustic properties of pipes, strings, bars, and membranes, and sound production in wind, string, and percussion instruments. The human voice. Room reverberation and acoustics. Directional characteristics of sound sources. Fall 3 hours lectures Designed for students in the Faculty of Music but suitable for students with an interest in music and its physical basis. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 225 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Psychology	PSYC 100. Introduction to Psychology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the scientific study of mind and behavior, including basic concepts and methods in psychology while also highlighting the relevance of psychology to everyday life; attachment, aggression, depression, parenting and personality change. Fall 2 lectures; 1 conference Restriction: Not open to students who have passed an Introductory Psychology course in CEGEP: 350-101 or 350-102 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 204. Introduction to Psychological Statistics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The statistical analysis of research data; frequency distributions; graphic representation; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary sampling theory and tests of significance. Fall and Winter Restrictions: Not open to students who taken or are taking MATH 203. This course is a prerequisite for PSYC 305, PSYC 406, PSYC 310, PSYC 336 Completion of PSYC 204 may restrict a student from getting credit for other statistics courses at McGill (please see the Course Overlap section of the McGill Course Catalogue for details). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 100. Introduction to Psychology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the scientific study of mind and behavior, including basic concepts and methods in psychology while also highlighting the relevance of psychology to everyday life; attachment, aggression, depression, parenting and personality change. Fall 2 lectures; 1 conference Restriction: Not open to students who have passed an Introductory Psychology course in CEGEP: 350-101 or 350-102 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 211. Introductory Behavioural Neuroscience. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to contemporary research on the relationship between brain and behaviour. Topics include learning, memory and cognition, brain damage and neuroplasticity, emotion and motivation, and drug addiction and brain reward circuits. Much of the evidence will be drawn from the experimental literature on research with animals. Winter 2 lectures Prerequisites: BIOL 111, 112 or 115, PSYC 100 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 212. Perception. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Perception is the organization of sensory input into a representation of the environment. Topics include: survey of sensory coding mechanisms (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory), object recognition, spatial localization, perceptual constancies and higher level influences. Fall 2 Lectures, 1 conference Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 213. Cognition. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Where do thoughts come from? What is the nature of thought, and how does it arise in the mind and the brain? Cognition is the study of human information processing, and we will explore topics such as memory, attention, categorization, decision making, intelligence, philosophy of mind, and the mind-as computer metaphor. Winter 2 lectures, 1 conference Prerequisite: One previous course in Psychology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 215. Social Psychology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The course offers students an overview of the major topics in social psychology. Three levels of analysis are explored beginning with individual processes (e.g., attitudes, attribution), then interpersonal processes (e.g., attraction, communication, love) and finally social influence processes (e.g., conformity, norms, roles, reference groups). Fall and Winter 3 lectures Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PSYC 330, MGCR 221 or SOCI 216 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PSYC 305. Statistics for Experimental Design. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychology (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the design and analysis of experiments, including analysis of variance, planned and post hoc tests and a comparison of anova to correlational analysis. Fall and Winter Prerequisite: PSYC 204; or MATH 203 (or those who are exempt from MATH 203 via advanced standing credits). This course is required of all students who propose to enter an Honours or Major program in Psychology 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. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Psychiatry	PSYT 199. FYS: Mental Illness and the Brain. Credits: 3 Offered by: Psychiatry (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course will introduce the student to the fundamentals of neuroscience, and then use these principles to illustrate recent advances made on the biological causes of, and treatments for, mental disorders with a strong biological component: schizophrenia, depression, mania, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and alcohol and drug abuse. 1 hour lecture and 2 hours seminar weekly Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25. No prerequisites Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

Social sciences

Note: If you intend to follow a psychology program, you should not register in SOCI-216 (Social Psychology). PSYC 215. Social Psychology. is more appropriate. Credit will not be given for both courses.

Courses

Program	Suggested electives
Anthropology	ANTH 201. Introduction to Archaeology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of the definition of the discipline of archaeology and the ways that archaeologists reconstruct the past. Overview of goals, theories, research questions, and methods of anthropological archaeology. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 202. Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 203. Human Evolution. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An examination of evolutionary theory and the fossil and archaeological record for human origins, emphasizing the interaction between physical and cultural evolution. The use of primate behaviour in reconstructing early human behaviour. The origin and meaning of human variation. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 204. Anthropology of Meaning. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Through the analysis of language, symbols and cultural constructions of meaning, this course explores how people in different societies make sense of their world, and the ways in which they organise that knowledge, and how ideologies represent the different interests present in a society. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 206. Environment and Culture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 207. Ethnography Through Film. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course will investigate and discuss cultural systems, patterns, and differences, and the ways in which they are observed, visually represented, and communicated by anthropologists using film and video. The visual representation of cultures will be critically evaluated by asking questions about perspective, authenticity, ethnographic authority and ethics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 208. Evolutionary Anthropology. ANTH 208 Evolutionary Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The basic elements and mechanisms of evolutionary theory; the place of evolutionary theory in anthropology, including social anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology and anthropological linguistics. Emphasis on the debates in each sub-discipline in which evolutionary theory has played an important role. Winter ANTH 209. Anthropology of Religion. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 212. Anthropology of Development. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 222. Legal Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of dispute resolutions and means of social cohesion in various societies of the world. Themes: dichotomy between law and custom, local definitions of justice and rights, forms of conflict resolution, access to justice, gender and law, universality of human rights, legal pluralism. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ANTH 227. Medical Anthropology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Canadian Studies	CANS 200. Understanding Canada. Credits: 3 Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Key cultural, economic, social and political institutions and their evolution over time. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder (also listed as a Humanities course)
Economics	ECON 199. First Year Seminar: Economics Seminar: A Reflection. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Research, economic data, and analysis of current issues from an economic perspective. Basic economic concepts and models on one or more current economic issues. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted BA students in U0, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum cap 25. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 205. An Introduction to Political Economy. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 205D. Restriction: This course does not count for credit towards the Minor Concentration, Major Concentration, or Honours degree in Economics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 208. Microeconomic Analysis and Applications. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 209. Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy. Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 219. Current Economic Problems: Topics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course will deal with topical issues of importance to the Canadian economy. This course will also be of interest to students outside of Economics Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 223. Political Economy of Trade Policy. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy. Prerequisite: ECON 208 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ECON 225. Economics of the Environment. Credits: 3 Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Gender, Sexual, and Feminist Studies	GSFS 200. Feminist and Social Justice Studies. Credits: 3 Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the key concepts, issues, and modes of analysis in the interdisciplinary fields of feminist and social justice studies. Emphasis on the intersections of gender, race, class, sex, sexuality, and nation in systems of power from historical and contemporary perspectives and the means for collectively transforming them. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken WMST 200. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GSFS 250. Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. Credits: 3 Offered by: Inst for Gender, Sex & Fem St (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the interdisciplinary fields of sexual and gender diversity studies from a range of theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives with an anti-oppressive and intersectional emphasis on marginalized identities, communities, practices and expressions. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken SDST 250. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Geography	Course information not available. (also listed as a Math & Science course) GEOG 200. Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to geography as the study of nature and human beings in a spatial context. An integrated approach to environmental systems and the human organization of them from the viewpoint of spatial relationships and processes. Special attention to environmental problems as a constraint upon Third World development. Fall 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 210. Global Places and Peoples. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments. Winter 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 216. Geography of the World Economy. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures. Fall 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GEOG 217. Cities in the Modern World. Credits: 3 Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian. Note: Winter Note: 3 hours Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
History	HIST 194. FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others. HIST 194 FYS: Jewish Concepts of Others. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A survey, using translated primary and selected secondary sources, of the ways in which Jews represented Christians from late antiquity to the present. Legal, liturgical, literary and other sources are examined with the focus on the Medieval and Early Modern periods. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25 students. For first year students only. HIST 195. FYS: Sources of World History. HIST 195 FYS: Sources of World History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the constitutive intellectual traditions of world history. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25 students Restriction: For first year students only HIST 197. FYS: Race in Latin America. HIST 197 FYS: Race in Latin America. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25 students HIST 198. FYS: Nation Building and Nationalism. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to some of the major theories of nationalism; an exploration of the many varieties of nationalism and forms of nation-building; a particular focus on the historical background to case studies of current interest. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25 students Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 199. FYS: History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the discipline of history through an in-depth look at a selected topic. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted BA students in U0, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one FYS will be obliged to withdraw from all but one. Maximum of 25 students. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 200. Introduction to African History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 201. Modern African History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 202. Survey: Canada to 1867. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of early Canada, from periods known mainly through archaeological records to the Confederation era. Social, cultural, economic and political themes will be examined. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 203. Survey: Canada since 1867. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of the development of Canada from Confederation to the present day. Social, economic and political history will be examined in a general way. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 205. Ancient Mediterranean History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the history of the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on Greek and Roman civilization. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 275. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 206. Indian Ocean World History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the “global” system connecting eastern Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East, from the earliest times to c. 1900. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 207. Jewish History: 400 B.C.E. to 1000. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An overview of Jewish history from the period of Ezra and Nehemiah to the death of Hai Gaon, c. 1035. Focus on the experience of the Jews in Hellenistic and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Jewish sects, rabbinic literature in its various genres, the Karaite schism, and the rise of the Gaonate. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken JWST 216 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 208. Introduction to East Asian History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 211. American History to 1865. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the history of colonial North America and the United States up to the Civil War, in their Atlantic context. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 212. Medieval Europe. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the history and culture(s) of Europe in the Middle Ages. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 213. World History, 600-2000. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of Islam and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease, and imperialism are the major themes addressed. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 214. Early Modern Europe. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Survey of European history from the Late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 215. Modern Europe. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Survey of European history from the eighteenth century to the present. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 216. Introduction to Russian History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The longue durée of Russian history from its origins in Kievan Rus and the Rurik dynasty, through the Romanov dynasty, the Soviet period, and post-Soviet developments. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken HIST 236. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 218. Modern East Asian History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 219. Jewish History: 1000 - 2000. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 221. United States since 1865. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Examines the defining moments and movements in the U.S. since Reconstruction, including populism, progressivism, the World Wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, the sixties and its consequences. Emphasis on the political, social and ideological transformations that ensued. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 226. East Central and Southeastern Europe in 20th Century. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introductory survey of east central and southeastern European history from the twilight of nineteenth-century imperialism to the most recent expansion of the European Union. Consideration will be given to the two world wars and their consequences; nationalism, fascism, and socialism; and the revolutions of 1989. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HIST 249. Health and the Healer in Western History. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The natural history of health and disease and the development of the healing arts, from antiquity to the beginning of modern times. The rise of "western" medicine. Health and healing as gradually evolving aspects of society and culture. Note: Also available to first-year medical students in their options program. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Indigenous Studies	INDG 200. Introduction to Indigenous Studies. Credits: 3 Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The focus is on Indigenous experience in Canada, but encourages comparative approaches. Introduction to the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of Indigenous life in Canada. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Linguistics	LING 200. Introduction to the Study of Language. Credits: 3 Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description General interest course; intended for students in all fields. Topics include: linguistic competence vs. performance, language and the brain, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language universals, pragmatics. Fall and Winter No prerequisite Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder LING 201. Introduction to Linguistics. Credits: 3 Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description General introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Covers the core theoretical subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also provides background on other subfields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and language acquisition. Fall and Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Political Science	POLI 200. Introduction to Political Science. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course presents an introduction to political science, including the basic theories, concepts, approaches, and to the enduring questions that motivate political research. It prepares students for further coursework in political science. Students will leave this course with an empirical grasp of current political debates, as well as with an overall understanding of the approaches to the fundamental issues that arise in the subfields of the department: political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and Canadian politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 210. Political Science Research Methods. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course provides an introduction to political science research methods. The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the scientific study of politics, the variety of research methodologies in political science, and the challenges that arise when researchers attempt to explain or measure political phenomena, demonstrate causal relationships and draw methodologically- defensible conclusions from research . The field is Methods. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 212. Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to fundamental comparative politics concepts and research that focuses on Europe and North America. Topics include: state and state institutions, parties and party systems, elections, protest and social movements, rule of law, corruption, regime transitions— democratization and autocratization. Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 221. Government of Canada. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An examination of the central governmental institutions, including parliament, federalism, and the judiciary. Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 222. Political Process and Behaviour in Canada. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to contemporary political life in Canada that examines how demands are identified and transmitted through the political systems. Emphasis will be placed on: the Canadian political culture; socialization and political participation; the electoral system; elections and voting; the role and structure of political parties; and the influence of organized interest. Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 226. La vie politique québécoise. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Une introduction à la vie politique québécoise à travers l'étude des institutions, des idéologies et des comportements politiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la structure et aux changements dans le système politique québécoise. Restriction: An ability to understand and read French is required; writing and speaking ability are not. This course is offered in English and French in alternate years. For 2012-13 it will be offered in French. Note: The field is Canadian Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 227. Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization. Note: The field is Comparative Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 231. Introduction to Political Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The course introduces students to political theory through critical examination of classic texts in the history of political thought. In addition to gaining an understanding of several different traditions of political thought, students are encouraged to develop their skills in textual interpretation, critical reasoning, and essay-writing. Note: The field is Political Theory. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. POLI 243. International Politics of Economic Relations. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to international relations, through examples drawn from international political economy. The emphasis will be on the politics of trade and international monetary relations. Note: The field is International Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder POLI 244. International Politics: State Behaviour. Credits: 3 Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Offers a comprehensive introduction to the behaviour of nation states. Explores how states make foreign policy decisions and what motivates their behaviour. Other covered topics include the military and economic dimensions of state behaviour, conflict, cooperation, interdependence, integration, globalization, and change in the international system. Note: The field is International Politics. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. 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Sociology	SOCI 210. Sociological Perspectives. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Major theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology. The linkages of theory and method in various substantive areas including: the family, community and urban life, religion, ethnicity, occupations and stratification, education, and social change. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 211. Sociological Inquiry. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introductory review of methods of sociological research including research design, elementary quantitative data analysis, observation, and use of official statistics. Detailed examination of published examples of the use of each of the major techniques of data analysis and collection. Prerequisite or Corequisite: SOCI 210 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. SOCI 222. Urban Sociology. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Comparative analysis of the process of urbanization in Europe, North America and the Third World; effects of urbanization upon social institutions and individuals; theories of urbanization and urbanism; the Canadian urban system; urban problems in comparative view. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 225. Medicine and Health in Modern Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Socio-medical problems and ways in which sociological analysis and research are being used to understand and deal with them. Canadian and Québec problems include: poverty and health; mental illness; aging; death and dying; professionalism; health service organization. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 230. Sociology of Ethnic Relations. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the sociological study of minority groups in Canada. The course will explore the themes of racism, prejudice, and discrimination, ethnic and racial inequalities, cultural identities, multiculturalism, immigration. Theoretical, empirical, and policy issues will be discussed. While the focus will be primarily on Canada, comparisons will be made with the United States. Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 234. Population and Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 235. Technology and Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An examination of the extent to which technological developments impose constraints on ways of arranging social relationships in bureaucratic organizations and in the wider society: the compatibility of current social structures with the effective utilization of technology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 247. Family and Modern Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Contrasting family in Canada and in the United States for the recent past. Examination of theories on family; changes and diversity of family life; complex relationships among marriage, work, and family; domestic violence; various types of family experience; and the future of the family. Course for the Women's Studies Concentrations Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 250. Social Problems. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Contrasting theoretical approaches to social problems. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 254. Development and Underdevelopment. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology. Summer Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder SOCI 270. Sociology of Gender. Credits: 3 Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course focuses on social changes in gender relations, gender inequalities and the social construction of gender. Using sociological theories of gender, different social institutions and spheres of society will be analyzed. Topics such as gender socialization, gender relations in work, family, education, and media will be covered. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

Humanities

Note: Some of the courses listed below are not suitable for first term as they require university level prerequisites. Please check the Calendar course entries for further information about appropriate background before registering.

Courses

Program	Suggested electives
Art History	ARTH 204. Introduction to Medieval Art and Architecture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Surveys the arts from late Antiquity to the fourteenth century in Western Europe. Focuses on the body and space to introduce artistic and architectural concepts, practices, and styles from the late Roman, Byzantine and Carolingian empires to monastic and royal patronage of the French Kings. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ARTH 205. Introduction to Modern Art. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The course is an introduction to the modern period in art history which begins around 1750. It examines the development in both painting and sculpture and relates to changes in the social and political climate of the times. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ARTH 207. Introduction Early Modern Art 1400-1700. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ARTH 209. Introduction to Ancient Art and Architecture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Survey of ancient art and architecture: pre-historic Europe, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Focus is on issues of political power, gender, sexuality, race, the formation of individual and group identities, and the relation between the body and social space. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ARTH 215. Introduction to East Asian Art. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions. Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken EAST 215. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ARTH 223. Introduction Italian Renaissance Art 1300-1500. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Surveys the changing role of the artwork in Renaissance Italy in its social, political, and religious contexts. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Canadian Studies	CANS 200. Understanding Canada. Credits: 3 Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Key cultural, economic, social and political institutions and their evolution over time. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Catholic Studies	CATH 200. Introduction to Catholicism. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course offers an exploration of the Roman Catholic tradition in its intellectual, religious, moral, and cultural dimensions. It provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which Catholicism has shaped Western civilization. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Classics	CLAS 203. Greek Mythology. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Communication Studies	COMS 200. History of Communication. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The social and cultural implications of major developments in communications from prehistory to the electronic era. Thematic and conceptual introduction to the underlying media technologies and to some key issues and practices of historical thinking about their role in society. Restriction: Not open to students who have ENGC 200. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMS 210. Introduction to Communication Studies. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The social and cultural implications of media. Surveys theory and case studies relevant key issues such as the ownership, structure and governance of media industries; the significance of emergent media technologies; and the roles of media as cultural forms and practices. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 278 or ENGC 210 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder COMS 230. Communication and Democracy. Credits: 3 Offered by: Art History & Communications (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to investigation of the relationship between communication, media practices and democracy. Examines the role of media and communication in existing and emerging democratic contexts, and the challenges of constructing and maintaining a democratic media and communication environment on the domestic and international levels. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
East Asian Studies	EAST 211. Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 212. Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 213. Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 215. Introduction to East Asian Art. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions. Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 351. Women Writers of China. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China. Core course for the Women's Studies program Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 353. Approaches to Chinese Cinema. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history. Prerequisite: EAST 211. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 356. Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. EAST 356 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture. Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356. EAST 362. Japanese Cinema. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 363. Early and Medieval Japan. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition. Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 364. Mass Culture and Postwar Japan. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers. Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 370. History of Sexuality in Japan. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 385. Global Korea. EAST 385 Global Korea. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media. EAST 390. The Chinese Family in History. EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History. Credits: 3 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality. Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of the instructor. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 344.
English	ENGL 199. FYS: Form and Representation. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to major modes of literary and cultural representation in English, including poetry, drama, film, the novel, and other forms. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1. Students may take only one First Year Seminar. Students who register for more than one will be removed from all but one of them. Maximum enrolment: 25 Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both). Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (https://www.mcgill.ca/arts-foundation-pilot/). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 200. Survey of English Literature 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A survey of English literature before 1750 for students not registered in English programs. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Fall Restriction: Not open to students in English programs Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 201. Survey of English Literature 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A survey of English literature after 1750 for students not registered in English programs. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Restriction: Not open to students in English programs Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 204. English Literature and the Bible. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course will examine the literary dimensions of the Bible including structure, style, and meaning as well as its status as Sacred Book. The influence of the Bible-as-metatext on the secular literature of the West will be the focus of the discussion. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 215. Introduction to Shakespeare. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A study of a selection of plays, in their intellectual and theatrical context, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and performance. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 225. American Literature 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A study of the literary works of earlier American writers. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 226. American Literature 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A study of the literary works of later American writers. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 228. Canadian Literature 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 1. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 229. Canadian Literature 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of ENGL 228. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 237. Introduction to Study of a Literary Form. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to literary study through a survey of a literary genre, mode, or form. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 279. Introduction to Film History. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to key historical moments, cinematic movements, formal styles, as well as historiographical and theoretical debates in the history of world cinema. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ENGL 280. Introduction to Film as Mass Medium. Credits: 3 Offered by: English (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to film's social, historical, and technological contexts, including its relationships to other mass media. For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at www.mcgill.ca/english. Students will be required to pay a screening fee. 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French Language & Literature	Course information not available. FREN 250. Littérature française avant 1800. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction à la littérature française des origines à la fin du 18e siècle. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FREN 251. Littérature française depuis 1800. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction à la littérature française des 19e et 20e siècles. Fall, Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
German Studies	GERM 197. FYS: Images of Otherness. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The seminar examines images and narratives of the foreign, alien, and uncanny Other in major works of German literature, film, music, and art from Romanticism to the present. Works discussed include Wagner's Lohengrin, expressionist art, and texts by authors such as ETA Hoffmann, Kleist, Freud, Nietzsche, Kafka, and Thomas Mann. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum 25 Given in English Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GERM 259. Introduction to German Literature 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the Middle Ages to the Age of Goethe, including the Nibelungenlied, Faust, classical tragedy, and the rise of the novel. Fall Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GERM 260. Introduction to German Literature 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the major authors, genres, and topics of German literature from the 19th century to the present. Winter Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Hispanic Studies	HISP 225. Hispanic Civilization 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of historical and cultural elements which constitute the background of the Hispanic world up to the 18th century; a survey of the pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations (Aztec, Maya and Inca) and the conquest of America. Fall Taught in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 226. Hispanic Civilization 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of the constitution of the ideological and political structures of the Spanish Empire in both Europe and America until the Wars of Independence; a survey of the culture and history of the Hispanic people from the early 19th Century to the present. Winter Taught in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 241. Survey of Spanish Literature and Culture 1. HISP 241 Survey of Spanish Literature and Culture 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description From the origins to the Golden Age through a study of representative works. Fall Taught in Spanish Prerequisite: successful completion of HISP 220D1/D2, HISP 219 or equivalent Course information not available. HISP 243. Survey of Latin American Literature and Culture 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description From the Colonial period to Modernism through a study of representative works. Fall Taught in Spanish Prerequisite: successful completion of HISP 220D1/HISP 220D2, HISP 219 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 244. Survey of Latin American Literature and Culture 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description From Modernism to the present through a study of representative works. Winter Taught in Spanish Prerequisite: HISP 220D1/HISP 220D2, HISP 219 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Italian Studies	ITAL 355. Dante and the Middle Ages. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the work of Dante Alighieri, a pillar of medieval European literature. The times in which he lived, the institutions and cultural shifts of that era, the influence exercised by Dante's work, as well as how it has been perceived in our time. Fall Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. ITAL 365. The Italian Renaissance. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A presentation of the main ideas and literary masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (13th-17thC), in the context of Italy's social, political, religious and cultural climate. Reading and discussion of selected literary texts and visual material. Winter Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 374. Classics of Italian Cinema. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Key works in the history of Italian cinema; an in-depth analysis of a few exceptional works; emphasis on the complex web of relationship connecting each work to a wide range of cultural products and expressions, from literature to popular culture, in Italy and internationally. Fall Note: Course taught in English. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 375. Cinema and Society in Modern Italy. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A survey of the most important trends in post-war Italian cinema seen in the context of the rapidly and dramatically evolving society of modern Italy. Fall Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Jewish Studies	JWST 199. FYS: Images - Jewish Identities. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A seminar devoted to literary portrayals of Jews by Jews and non-Jews from Biblical times to the present. Both positive and negative understandings of Jewish identity and Judaism will be studied. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Maximum enrolment 25 Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both). Available only to registered participants in the Bachelor of Arts Foundation Year Program Pilot (https://www.mcgill.ca/arts-foundation-pilot/). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 201. Jewish Law. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The nature and history of Jewish law; literary and legal sources; selections in English from the Mishnah and Talmud, as well as selected post-Talmudic Texts, on such subjects as Contracts, Torts, Public Law and Family Law. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 206. Introduction to Yiddish Literature. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of Yiddish literature with a particular focus on the modern period (the 1860s to the present). As we read major works of Yiddish literature, we will discuss the main factors in its development, including its position as a minority literature, Ashkenazi civilization’s religious foundations and multilingualism, the rise of political movements, and the trauma of the Holocaust. In his Nobel lecture, Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer described Yiddish as “the idiom of the frightened and hopeful humanity.” We will explore both the reasons behind and the effects of such universalization of Yiddish language, literature, and culture. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Readings are in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 211. Jewish Studies 1: Biblical Period. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The history, literature and beliefs of Judaism's formative period. Both Biblical and non-Biblical materials will be studied. The Bible in the context of cognate literatures of the Ancient Near East; non-Biblical documents will be analysed for their bearing on the Jewish tradition. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. All texts will be read in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 217. Jewish Studies 3: 1000 - 2000. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The Jewish experience from the rise of the European centres to the present. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. All texts will be read in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 225. Literature and Society. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A panoramic analysis of Israeli society through poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and testimonial narratives reflecting the country's historical, ideological and ethnic complexity. In English translation, we will read Oz, Amichai, Habibi, Har-Even and Yehoshua, as well as new authors from divergent ethnic, religious and ideological positions. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. All texts will be read in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 240. The Holocaust. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Consideration of the history of the Holocaust and the literary, theological and cultural responses to the destruction of European Jewry. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken JWST 252 "The Holocaust" Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 252. Interdisciplinary Lectures. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Interdisciplinary lectures in Jewish studies. Topic varies by year. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 254. The Jewish Holy Days. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An exploration of the Jewish holy days. Emphasis is placed on their historical development, philosophical messages, and ritual forms. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder JWST 261. History of Jewish Philosophy and Thought. Credits: 3 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to Jewish philosophy and thought from the Hellenistic period (Philo) to the beginning of the modern era (Spinoza) focusing on topics such as prophecy and philosophy, God and the world; the Law as a canon of ethical rules and as a political constitution. Survey of the treatment of such issues by Jewish thinkers from Philo to Maimonides. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
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Philosophy	PHIL 199. FYS: Minds, Brain, and Machines. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the philosophical foundations of the sciences of the mind. Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1 who may take only one FYS Enrollment limit 25. Students who register for more than one First Year Seminar will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Language of instruction is English. Register for AFYR 101/102 and a foundation seminar OR a writing seminar (not both). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 200. Introduction to Philosophy 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A course treating some of the central problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem, freedom, scepticism and certainty, fate, time, and the existence of God. Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 201. Introduction to Philosophy 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to some of the major problems of philosophy. This course does not duplicate PHIL 200. Philosophy students may use either PHIL 200 or PHIL 201 towards their program requirements, but not both. Students may, however, take both for credit (using the second as an elective), as the content in PHIL 201 does not overlap with PHIL 200 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 210. Introduction to Deductive Logic 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics. Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 221. Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of the development of modern science since the Eighteenth Century. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 230. Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A survey of a number of historically important and influential theories. Philosophers to be discussed may include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill, and Moore. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 237. Contemporary Moral Issues. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introductory discussion of central ethical questions (the value of persons, or the relationship of rights and utilities, for example) through the investigation of currently disputed social and political issues. Specific issues to be discussed may include pornography and censorship, affirmative action, civil disobedience, punishment, abortion, and euthanasia. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 240. Political Philosophy 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to contemporary philosophy of politics by concentrating on a number of contested concepts, such as freedom, justice and equality, in contemporary political philosophy and practice. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder PHIL 242. Introduction to Feminist Theory. Credits: 3 Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to feminist theory as political theory. Emphasis is placed on the plurality of analyses and proposals that constitute contemporary feminist thought. Some of the following are considered: liberal feminism, marxist and socialist feminism, radical feminism, postmodern feminism, francophone feminism, and the contributions to feminist theory by women of colour and lesbians. Note: Since this course is being taught abroad, the Victoria Day statutory holiday will not be taken into consideration. Therefore, students are expected to attend their lecture on Monday, May 19, 2014. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Religious Studies	RELG 201. Religions of the Ancient Near East. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine (excluding Israelite religion) from the fourth to first millennium B.C.E. Themes that will be discussed include: gods and goddesses, divine kingship, deification of kings, temple cult, death and afterlife, magic, piety, oracles, prayer, lament, myth and epic. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 202. Religion of Ancient Israel. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An examination of the religion of Ancient Israel by a study of selected texts (narratives, laws, prophetic sayings, wisdom traditions, and psalms) from the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament in translation. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 203. Bible and Western Culture. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description To provide students of the humanities with knowledge of the Bible as a tool for interpreting religious references in Western literature, art and music. Biblical stories (e.g. Creation, Exodus), key figures (e.g. David, Job, Mary), and common motifs (e.g. Holy City, Pilgrimage, Bride) are explored, then illustrated by later cultural forms. Fall and Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 204. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An introduction to the beliefs, practices, and religious institutions of these three world religions. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 207. Introduction to the Study of Religions. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken RELG 255. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 210. Jesus of Nazareth. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A critical study of selected ancient and modern accounts of the aims and person of Jesus. Attention will be given also to the question of the historical sources and to the relationship between faith and history. Fall, Winter and Summer Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 252. Hinduism and Buddhism. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The interaction of Hinduism and Buddhism in India with special reference to the law of Karma, caste, women, ritual, death, yoga, and liberation. Determination of interpretative principles for understanding the religious psychology of Hindus and Buddhists. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 253. Religions of East Asia. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. RELG 270. Religious Ethics and the Environment. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Environmental potential of various religious traditions and secular perspectives, including animal rights, ecofeminism, and deep ecology. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 271. Religion and Sexuality. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural, historical and contemporary contexts. Winter Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Russian & Slavic Studies	RUSS 217. Russia's Eternal Questions. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Exploration of cultural archetypes defining continuity and change from Peter the Great to the present; the Russian national identity, double-faith, Western and Slovophile influences, Mother Russia, superfluous men and the Eternal Feminine, anarchism, the avant-garde, Stalinism. Recurring themes traced in literature, art, film, music, pop culture and the applied arts. Fall Given in English Restriction: Permission of the instructor Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RUSS 218. Russian Literature and Revolution. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description The dramatic developments in Russian literature of the 20th century, from revolution, through conformity, to the ironies and anxieties of the post-Soviet era. Comrades, iconoclasts, absurdists, proletarians and aesthetes; the Gulag, the literary café, the music of the spheres, the crumbling Russian village; the reforging of humanity and the rediscovery of tradition. Fall or Winter Prerequisite: None, but some background in Russian 20C history is helpful Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RUSS 223. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description The Golden Age of Russian literature: from Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol to the first works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This course traces the rise of a coherent literary tradition in Russia, exploring authors’ relationships to the burgeoning tradition and to their historical and cultural context. Fall Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RUSS 224. Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This course explores the masterpieces of late nineteenth-century Russian literature. From psychological realism and the novel of ideas to the rise of the great short story; Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, and Chekhov. Winter Given in English Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

Languages

Note: You may wish to take a language course this year. The following regulations regarding language courses apply to students in the Foundation program.

No more than one 6-credit or 9-credit language course at an elementary level may be taken in the first year.
You are permitted to take two language courses in the Foundation program provided that they are at different levels, e.g., Elementary French and Intermediate German. You may not take two introductory-level language courses.
A 6-credit language course given in one term is permitted - this is equivalent to two courses both in the number of credits as well as the workload.
The 12-credit intensive language courses are designed to accelerate three-year students and are normally not suitable for Foundation program students.

Placement tests: All language courses have limited enrolment and, as such, may require a departmental approval (issued by the department offering the course). Consult the McGill Calendar and/or the class schedule for information about placement tests or departmental approval (if necessary). Please note that placement tests for French as a second language will be held during the week prior to the beginning of classes in September. Please click here for dates and times.

Language courses

Program	Suggested electives
Classics	CLAS 210. Introductory Latin 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A course designed for beginners with little or no background in Latin. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages. Pre-requisite(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 210D1/D2 prior to September 2016. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CLAS 212. Introductory Latin 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Continued introduction to Latin grammar, vocabulary, and morphology. Reading of more complex sentences and longer connected passages. Winter Prerequisite(s) CLAS 210 or equivalent. Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 210D1/D2 prior to September 2016. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder CLAS 230D1. Introductory Modern Greek. Credits: 3 Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A course for beginners. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CLAS 236, CLAS 237 or CLAS 238. Students must register for both CLAS 230D1 and CLAS 230D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both CLAS 230D1 and CLAS 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
East Asian Studies	EAST 220. First Level Korean. Credits: 9 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules. An activities fee of $106.06 is charged to support the cost of visits to a Kimchi factory, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 230. First Level Chinese. Credits: 9 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026 View offerings for Summer 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials. An activities fee of $153.96 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder EAST 240. First Level Japanese. Credits: 9 Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji. An activities fee of $189.88 is charged to support the cost of visits to museums, restaurant meals, theatrical demonstrations, and explorations in the cultural richness of the language. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available.
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French Language & Literature	Course information not available. FREN 201. Le français littéraire (français langue seconde). Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Perfectionnement de l'expression écrite au contact d'une variété de textes littéraires et par la rédaction de courts textes d'invention. Préalable: avoir réussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir réussi ou être inscrit-e à au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'étudiant-e n'ayant complété ou n'étant inscrit-e à aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingentés. Autorisation départementale requise. Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & littérature françaises ; Langue française ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue & littérature françaises ; Traduction. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FREN 203. Analyse de textes (français langue seconde) . Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Perfectionnement de l’expression écrite : analyse et apprentissage des règles de composition de divers genres de discours (textes argumentatifs, lettres, dialogues, récits, descriptions ou portraits). Préalable: avoir réussi le FRSL 431 ou avoir réussi ou être inscrit-e à au moins un des cours suivants : FRSL 445, FRSL 446, FRSL 449 ou FRSL 455. L'étudiant-e n'ayant complété ou n'étant inscrit-e à aucun de ces cours devra passer un test de classement. Effectifs contingentés. Autorisation départementale requise. Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-es inscrit-e-s au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et littérature françaises ; Langue française ou au programme B.A. ; Concentration mineure Langue et littérature françaises ; Traduction. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FREN 231. Linguistique française. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Bref historique de la linguistique française de F. de Saussure à nos jours. Description linguistique du français moderne (éléments de phonologie, de phonétique normative, de lexicologie, de sémantique évolutive et synchronique, de syntaxe et de morphologie). Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FREN 239. Stylistique comparée. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Initiation aux principes de la traduction par une étude systématique des contrastes entre les structures linguistiques de l'anglais et du français. Une bonne connaissance des deux langues est nécessaire au départ. Préalable : Test de classement. Autorisation départementale requise. Priorité donnée aux étudiant·es inscrit·es dans un programme du Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FREN 245. Grammaire normative. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language & Literature (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Révision des principales difficultés de la langue française. Préalable : Autorisation départementale requise. Cours réservé en priorité aux étudiant-e-s inscrit-e-s à l'un des programmes du Département de langue et littérature françaises. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
French as a Second Language	FRSL 101. Beginners French 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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. 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. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FRSL 105. Intensive Beginners French. Credits: 6 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description 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 social milieu, short essays, cultural readings, mandatory lab practice and conversation class. Fall 6 hours, plus language laboratory and oral practice with a French monitor Prerequisite: Placement test Restriction: Not open to students who have taken FRSL 201 or FRSL 205 or FRSL 101 or FRSL 102. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FRSL 206. Elementary French. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This one-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. Fall 3 hours, plus language laboratory Prerequisites: FRSL 101 and FRSL102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent or FRSL 207. Only with special permission of the department. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FRSL 207. Elementary French 01. FRSL 207 Elementary French 01. Credits: 6 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description 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. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent 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 FRSL 208. Intensive Elementary French. Credits: 6 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description This one-term intensive 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. 6 hours, plus language laboratory Prerequisites: FRSL 101 and FRSL 102, or FRSL 103, or FRSL 104, or FRSL 105, or Placement test. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken Grade 12 or 13 French in Canada, or equivalent or FRSL 207 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FRSL 211. Oral and Written French 1. FRSL 211 Oral and Written French 1. Credits: 6 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Language lab attendance required. Grammar review, comprehension, vocabulary development, selected readings and group discussions. Restriction: Not open to students from Québec Language laboratory Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test Restriction: Not open to students from Québec FRSL 212. Oral and Written French 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Equivalent to the first half of FRSL 211. Only with special permission of the Department. Fall 3 hours, plus language laboratory Prerequisite: Placement test Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder FRSL 215. Oral and Written French 1 - Intensive. Credits: 6 Offered by: French Language Centre (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Language lab attendance required. Grammar review, comprehension, vocabulary development, selected readings and group discussions. Fall 6 hours, plus language laboratory Prerequisite(s): FRSL 207D1 and 207D2, or 208, or Placement test Restriction: Not open to students from Québec Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder Course information not available.
German Studies	GERM 200. German Language, Intensive Beginners. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An intensive language course designed to develop communicative skills; covers the first level (GERM 202D1/GERM 202D2) in one term. Required for program students. Winter 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder GERM 202. German Language, Beginners'. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A comprehensive first-level course designed to develop communicative skills. 6 hours, plus 1 hour laboratory Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Hispanic Studies	HISP 210. Spanish Language: Beginners. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A comprehensive first-level course focusing on all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture. Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 218 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 218. Spanish Language Intensive - Elementary. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A comprehensive first-level course focusing upon all oral and written skills. An introduction to the fundamentals of Spanish grammar and syntax and to Hispanic culture. Fall or Winter Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 210 or 210D1/D2 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 219. Spanish Language Intensive - Intermediate. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America. Fall or Winter Prerequisite: HISP 210 or 210D1/D2 or HISP 218 or equivalent Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 220D1/D2 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder HISP 220D1. Spanish Language: Intermediate. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description A thorough review of Spanish grammar with emphasis upon current usage. Enrichment of all language skills, with a goal of proficiency in written and oral communication, through readings in the literature and civilization of Spain and Spanish America. Fall, Winter Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HISP 219 or equivalent Students must register for both HISP 220D1 and HISP 220D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both HISP 220D1 and HISP 220D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms HISP 220D1 and HISP 220D2 together are equivalent to HISP 220 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Islamic Studies	Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available. Course information not available.
Italian Studies	ITAL 205D1. Italian for Beginners. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Grammar, reading, dictation. Intensive practice in speech patterns and written structures. Conversation and composition. Visual material and selected readings will be used in describing the making of contemporary Italy. Fall, Winter 3 hours and laboratory Students must register for both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 205D1 and ITAL 205D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 206. Beginners Italian Intensive. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Fall or Winter 6 hours and 1 hour laboratory Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 210D1. Italian for Advanced Beginners. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Intended for students who have never studied Italian, but who have had some informal exposure to the language. Grammar, reading, conversation and composition. An outline of Italian civilization, oral presentations and discussions. Fall, Winter 3 hours and laboratory Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 Students must register for both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 210D1 and ITAL 210D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 215D1. Intermediate Italian. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Direct continuation of ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2. Grammar, literary readings, conversation. Grammar exercises and composition. Reading of selected literary works, oral presentations and group discussion. Fall, Winter Students must register for both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both ITAL 215D1 and ITAL 215D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder ITAL 216. Intermediate Italian Intensive. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027 View offerings for Summer 2026 or Fall 2026 or Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Course designed to cover in one term the same material as ITAL 215D1/ITAL 215D2. Direct continuation of ITAL 206. Fall or Winter 6 hours Prerequisite: ITAL 205D1/ITAL 205D2 or ITAL 206 or permission of the Department Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ITAL 210 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Jewish Studies	JWST 220. Introductory Hebrew. Credits: 6 Offered by: Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Language acquisition - introductory Hebrew. For detailed course content go to www.mcgill.ca/jewishstudies/undergraduates. Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder
Religious Studies	RELG 257D1. Introductory Sanskrit. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description To develop basic language and reading skills. Students must register for both RELG 257D1 and RELG 257D2. No credit will be given for this course unless both RELG 257D1 and RELG 257D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 264. Introductory Tibetan 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 265. Introductory Tibetan 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar. Winter Prerequisite: RELG 264 Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RELG 280. New Testament Greek 2. RELG 280 New Testament Greek 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts) This course is not offered this catalogue year. Description Continued basic grammar, vocabulary and syntax of New Testament Greek. Analysis of more complex sentences from the New Testament and Septuagint. Prerequisite(s): RELG 279, CLAS 220 Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken RELG 280 D1/D2 or RELG 280 prior to 201909. Not open to students who have taken CLAS 220 D1/D2, CLAS 222, CLAS 225
Russian & Slavic Studies	RUSS 210. Elementary Russian Language 1. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Fall 2026 View offerings for Fall 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Reading, grammar, translation, oral practice. Fall Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RUSS 211. Elementary Russian Language 2. Credits: 3 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description Russian Language; continuation of RUSS 210. Winter Prerequisite: RUSS 210 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder RUSS 215. Elementary Russian Language Intensive 1. Credits: 6 Offered by: Languages,Literatures,Cultures (Faculty of Arts) Terms offered: Winter 2027 View offerings for Winter 2027 in Visual Schedule Builder. Description An intensive introduction to the Russian language which covers the first year of the normal level, i.e. RUSS 210/RUSS 211 in one semester. The basic grammatical structures are covered. Fall Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken RUSS 210, RUSS 211 or equivalent Most students use Visual Schedule Builder (VSB) to organize their schedules. VSB helps you plan class schedules, travel time, and more. Launch Visual Schedule Builder

5. Selecting courses towards your program(s)

Once you have chosen the program(s) you are interested in, the next step is to build a plan for your first year. To do this, consult the Course Catalogue, McGill's official source for program and course information.

Each program has its own page in the Course Catalogue that lists the courses required to complete that program. These requirements include: Required courses (courses you must complete) and Complementary courses (courses chosen from an approved list).

The easiest way to find your program requirements is through our Programs of Study table (Step 4 on the B.Sc. Programs of Study page). This table includes direct links to the Course Catalogue pages for all Bachelor of Science programs.

Note: You should also review the website of the department offering each program you are considering, as departments often provide additional guidance about course selection and registration.

For each program you are interested in, review both the Course Catalogue and the departmental website. For example, if you plan to pursue a Major in Biology and a Minor in Art History, you should consult the resources for both programs.

As you review these resources, create a list of courses you would like to take in your first year.

Keep the following guidelines in mind:

Focus on 100- and 200-level courses.
Do not register for 300-level+ courses in your first year.
Prioritize Required courses before Complementary courses.
If you are planning to pursue more than one program (such as a Major and a Minor), choose courses that help you make progress toward both programs.
Identify backup course options in case your preferred choices are unavailable.

Your goal is to create a list of possible courses for the Fall and Winter terms. Your next step will be to use the Minerva Class Schedule or Visual Schedule Builder to see which courses are being offered and to build your timetable.

6. Registration

Consult the Registration page for tips and instructions on how to register for courses online (using Minerva).

U1 course selection (B.Sc.)

1. Selecting your program(s)

2. Need help selecting program(s)?

3. Course and credit load

4. Suggested electives

Math and science courses

Courses

ESYS 104. The Earth System.

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ATOC 181. Introduction to Atmospheric Science.

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ATOC 182. Introduction to Oceanic Sciences.

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ATOC 183. Climate and Climate Change.

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ATOC 184. Science of Storms.

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ATOC 185. Natural Disasters.

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BIOL 111. Principles: Organismal Biology.

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BIOL 112. Cell and Molecular Biology.

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BIOL 200. Molecular Biology.

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BIOL 201. Cell Biology and Metabolism.

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BIOL 202. Basic Genetics.

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BIOL 205. Functional Biology of Plants and Animals.

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BIOL 206. Methods in Biology.

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BIOL 210. How Science Works

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BIOL 240. Monteregian Flora.

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CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1.

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CHEM 120. General Chemistry 2.

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CHEM 180. World of Chemistry: Environment.

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CHEM 181. World of Chemistry: Food.

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CHEM 182. World of Chemistry: Technology.

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CHEM 183. World of Chemistry: Drugs.

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CHEM 203. Survey of Physical Chemistry.

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CHEM 204. Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences 1.

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CHEM 212. Introductory Organic Chemistry 1.

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CHEM 214. Physical Chemistry/Biological Sciences 2.

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CHEM 219. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry.

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CHEM 222. Introductory Organic Chemistry 2.

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CHEM 253. Introductory Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

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CHEM 281. Inorganic Chemistry 1.

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CHEM 287. Introductory Analytical Chemistry.

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CHEM 297. Introductory Analytical Chemistry Laboratory.

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COMP 102. Computers and Computing.

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COMP 189. Computers and Society.

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COMP 202. Foundations of Programming.

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COMP 206. Introduction to Software Systems.

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COMP 230. Logic and Computability.

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COMP 250. Introduction to Computer Science.