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All required and complementary courses used to fulfil program requirements, including the basic Science requirements, must be completed with a grade of C or better. If you fail to obtain a Satisfactory grade in a required course, you must either pass the supplemental examination in the course or do additional work for a supplemental grade, if these options are available, or repeat the course. Course substitution will be allowed only in special cases; you should consult your academic adviser.
Normally, you are permitted to repeat a failed course only once. (Failure is considered to be a grade of less than C or the administrative failures of J and KF.) If a required course is failed a second time, you must appeal to the Director of Advising Services for permission to take the course a third time. If permission is denied by the Director of Advising Services and/or by the Committee on Student Standing, on appeal, you must withdraw from the program. If the failed course is a complementary course required by the program, you may choose to replace it with another appropriate complementary course. If you choose to substitute another complementary course for a complementary course in which a D was received, credit for the first course will still be given, but as an elective. If you repeat a required course in which a D was received, credit will be given only once.
Full details of the course requirements for all programs offered are given in each unit鈥檚 section together with the locations of departmental advisory offices, program directors, and telephone numbers should further information be required.
You will not receive additional credit towards your degree for any course that overlaps in content with a course for which you have already received credit at 平特五不中, at another university, at CEGEP, or for Advanced Placement, Advanced Level, International Baccalaureate, or French Baccalaureate results. It is your responsibility to consult the Science Office for Undergraduate Student Advising (SOUSA) or the department offering the course as to whether or not credit can be obtained and to be aware of exclusion clauses specified in the course description in this publication. Please refer to the following website for specific information about Advanced Standing credits and 平特五不中 course exemptions: www.mcgill.ca/students/transfercredit.
Sometimes the same course is offered by two different departments. Such courses are called 鈥渄ouble-prefix鈥 courses. When such courses are offered simultaneously, you should take the course offered by the department in which you are obtaining your degree. For example, in the case of double-prefix courses CHEM XYZ and PHYS XYZ, Chemistry students take CHEM XYZ and the Physics students take PHYS XYZ. If a double-prefix course is offered by different departments in alternate years, you may take whichever course best fits your schedule.
Credit for computer and statistics courses offered by faculties other than Science requires the permission of the Director of Advising Services and will be granted only under exceptional circumstances.
Credit for statistics courses will be given with the following stipulations:
As a student in the Faculty of Science, you should consult the statement of regulations for taking courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science (see below). A list of approved/not-approved courses in other faculties is posted on the SOUSA website (www.mcgill.ca/science/student/continuingstudents/bsc/outside). You may take courses on the approved list and may not, under any circumstances, take courses on the not-approved list for credit. Requests for permission to take courses that are not on either list should be addressed to the Director of Advising Services.
The regulations are as follows:
As a Science student, you may obtain transfer credit for correspondence, distance education, or web-based courses if you receive prior approval from the appropriate 平特五不中 department for the course content and prior approval from the Director of Advising Services, Science, for the method of delivery and evaluation. Courses taught through distance education from institutions other than 平特五不中 will only be considered for transfer credits under the following conditions:
ESL courses are only open to students whose primary language is not English and who have studied for fewer than five years in English-language secondary institutions. As a student in the B.Sc., you may take a maximum of 12 credits, including academic writing courses for non-anglophones, from the list of ESL courses published at www.mcgill.ca/science/student/continuingstudents/bsc/outside.
Registration for First-Year Seminars is limited to students in their first year of study at 平特五不中, i.e., newly admitted students in U0 or U1. These courses 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.
You may take only one First-Year Seminar. If you register for more than one, you will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them. Please consult the departmental listings for course descriptions and availability.
First-Year Seminars | |
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CHEM 199 | FYS: Why Chemistry? |
EPSC 199 | FYS: Earth & Planetary Exploration |
PSYC 199 | FYS: Mind-Body Medicine |
PSYT 199 | FYS: Mental Illness and the Brain |
The First-Year Seminars offered by the Faculty of Arts are also open to Science students. For a complete listing, please consult Programs, Courses and University Regulations > Faculty of Arts > Undergraduate > Academic Programs > First-Year Seminars.
The credit assigned to a particular course should reflect the amount of effort it demands of you. Normally, one credit will represent three hours total work per week for one term鈥攊ncluding a combination of lecture hours, other contact hours, such as laboratory periods, tutorials, and problem periods, as well as personal study time.