Anatomy & Cell Biology: An introduction to light and electron microscopic anatomy in which cell and tissue dynamics will be explored in the principal tissues and organs of the body.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lectures, 2 hours laboratory
• Must be taken in U1 by students in Anatomy and Cell Biology programs
• Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or CEGEP equivalent
• Restriction: Open to students in biological sciences and others by special permission

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Craig A. Mandato, Carlos R Morales

Anthropology: 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.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Fall

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Katie Kotar

Anthropology: 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.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anthropology: 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.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Fall

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Todd E Meyers

Art History: A critical survey of contemporary art and theory, from 1945 to the present focusing on pivotal issues such as anti-war politics, feminism, sexual diversity, AIDS awareness, discourse of multiculturalism, debates about modernism and postmodernism, post colonialism, technology, and globalization.

Offered by: Art History & Communications

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Evgeniya Makarova

Art History: Surveys visual culture of early modern Europe across various social spheres and geographical locations.

Offered by: Art History & Communications

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences: 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 smog chamber, acid rain, and ozone hole will be examined.

Offered by: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

• Winter
• 3 hours lecture
• 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 CHEM 219, CHEM 419 or ATOC 419
• Offered in odd years. Students should register in CHEM 219 in even years

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Thomas C Preston

Biology (Sci): 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.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lecture, 1 hour optional tutorial
• Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or equivalent
• Corequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent, or CHEM 204

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Kenneth E M Hastings, Paul Lasko, Shaun Turney, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Serge Champetier

Biology (Sci): 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.

Offered by: Biology

• 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

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Gary J Brouhard, Siegfried Hekimi, Huanquan Zheng, Serge Champetier

Biology (Sci): 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.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 1. 2 hours lecture, 2. 3 hours laboratory
• Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or equivalent

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Laura J Pollock, Hans Carl E Larsson, Shaun Turney

Biology (Sci): An introduction to the fundamental processes of ecology and evolution that bear on the nature and diversity of organisms and the processes that govern their assembly into ecological communities and their roles in ecosystem function.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisite: BIOL 111
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENVR 202

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Neil Price, Rees Kassen, Gregor F Fussmann

Biology (Sci): An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.

Offered by: Biology

• Prerequisite(s): BIOL 112; CHEM 110 and CHEM 120; MATH 140, MATH 141 and MATH 133; PHYS 131 and PHYS 142; or the equivalents of these courses.
• Corequisite(s): MATH 222 or equivalent
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 212, BIOC 212, BIOL 200, and BIOL 201, or BIEN 219. Only open to students in Bioengineering, Computer Science-Biology, Biology-Mathematics, Biology-Quantitative Biology, Chemistry-Biophysical Chemistry, and Physics-Biological Physics Options.
• This course is meant to prepare students for related 300-level courses in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Stephanie Weber, Alanna J Watt, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Adam G Hendricks

Biology (Sci): Field studies of ferns, fern allies, conifers and flowering plants; the use of keys for plant identification.

Offered by: Biology

• 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).
• 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.

• Terms
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Virginie Millien

Bioengineering: An introduction to molecular and cell biology from a physical perspective. Techniques and methodologies, both experimental and computational, are included in the presentation of each thematic module.

Offered by: Bioengineering

• Corequisite(s): MATH 222 or equivalent
• Prerequisite(s): BIOL 112; CHEM 110 and CHEM 120; MATH 140, MATH 141 and MATH 133; PHYS 131 and PHYS 142; or the equivalents of these courses
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT212, BIOC212, BIOL200, BIOL 201 and BIOL219. Only open to students in Bioengineering, Computer Science-Biology, Biology-Mathematics, BiologyQuantitative Biology, Chemistry-Biophysical Chemistry, and Physics-Biological Physics options.
• This course is meant to prepare students for related 300-level courses in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, and Physics.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Adam G Hendricks, Alanna J Watt, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Stephanie Weber

Biomedical Engineering: The micro and nanotechnologies that drive and support the miniaturization and parallelization of techniques for life sciences research, including different inventions, designs and engineering approaches that lead to new tools and methods for the life sciences - while transforming them - and help advance our knowledge of life.

Offered by: Biomedical Engineering

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
• This course is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students having a biological/medical background or an engineering, physical sciences background. Engineering students enrolled in the Minor in Biomedical Engineering, or Honours in Electrical Engineering and Honours in Mechanical Engineering, should be particularly interested.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • David Juncker

Chemical Engineering: Introduction to the design of industrial processes. Survey of unit operations, and systems of units. Elementary material balances, first and second laws of thermodynamics, use of property tables and charts, steady flow processes. Relationships between thermodynamic properties, property estimation techniques. Laboratory and design exercise.

Offered by: Chemical Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Brenden N Moeun

Chemical Engineering: Application of thermodynamic equilibrium; free energy and equilibrium; phase rule; chemical reaction equilibrium for homogenous and multicomponent/multiphase systems. Application to the design of binary distillation. Laboratory exercise.

Offered by: Chemical Engineering

• (3-1.5-4.5)
• Prerequisite: CHEE 200
• Corequisite(s): MATH 262

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault

Chemistry: The fundamentals of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with applications to biomolecular systems. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of biological processes.

Offered by: Chemistry

• 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Pallavi Sirjoosingh

Chemistry: 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.

Offered by: Chemistry

• 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Rustam Khaliullin
  • Lucas Caire da Silva

Chemistry: A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.

Offered by: Chemistry

• 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 ().

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Danielle K Vlaho, Mitchell J Huot, Pallavi Sirjoosingh, Youla S Tsantrizos, Laura Pavelka, Nathan Luedtke
  • Danielle K Vlaho, Pallavi Sirjoosingh

Chemistry: Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall, Winter, Summer
• Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent
• Restriction: For Chemical Engineers only or permission of department.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Pallavi Sirjoosingh, Nicolas Moitessier, Nathan Luedtke

Chemistry: Survey of the physical and chemical structure-function relationships defining advanced materials, including an introduction to basic materials science and characterization. Topics include supramolecular polymers, self-healing materials, advanced surfaces and adhesives, bio-inspired materials, shape memory materials, sensors and actuators, and photonic materials.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 110/CHEM 120 and PHYS101/PHYS 102 or PHYS 131/PHYS 142, or CEGEP Physics and Chemistry, or equivalent. Prerequisite or Corequisite: one of CHEM 203, CHEM 204, CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, or equivalent; or one of PHYS 230 and PHYS 232, or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Matthew J Harrington

Chemistry: Structure, bonding, synthesis, properties and applications of covalent, ionic, metallic crystals, and amorphous solids. Defect structures and their use in synthesis of specialty materials such as electronic conductors, semiconductors, and superconductors, and solid electrolytes. Basic principles of composite materials and applications of chemistry to materials processing.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Winter
• Prerequisite: CHEM 381

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Civil Engineering: Systems of forces and couples, resultants, equilibrium. Trusses, frames and beams, reactions, shear forces, bending moments. Centroids, centres of gravity, distributed forces, moments of inertia. Friction, limiting equilibrium, screws, belts.

Offered by: Civil Engineering

• (3-2-4)

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Luc E Chouinard
  • Matiyas A Bezabeh

Civil Engineering: Stress-strain relationships; elastic and inelastic behaviour; performance criteria. Elementary and compound stress states, Mohr's circle. Shear strains, torsion. Bending and shear stresses in flexural members. Deflections of beams. Statically indeterminate systems under flexural and axial loads. Columns. Dynamic loading.

Offered by: Civil Engineering

• (4-2-6)
• Prerequisites: CIVE 205 (a D grade is acceptable for prerequisite purposes) or MECH 210 (under special circumstances, the Department may permit this course to be taken as a corequisite) or equivalent
• Four laboratory sessions and weekly tutorials

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Yi Shao
  • Daniele Malomo

Civil Engineering: Kinematics of particles, dynamics of particles. Work, conservative forces, potential energy. Relative motion and general moving frames of reference. Central force fields and orbits. Dynamics of a system of particles. General motion of rigid bodies, angular momentum and kinetic energy of rigid bodies. Generalized coordinates and forces, Lagrange's equations.

Offered by: Civil Engineering

• (3-1-5)
• Corequisites: MATH 262, MATH 263.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Mohamed Afifi

Classics: A course designed for beginners with little or no background in ancient Greek. Introduction to basic grammar, vocabulary, morphology. Reading of simple sentences and connected passages.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CLAS 220 D1/D2 prior to September 2016.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Naomi Kaloudis

Computer Science (Sci): Development of programming skills on tricky challenges, games and puzzles by means of programming competitions.

Offered by: Computer Science

• 1 hour
• Prerequisites: COMP 206
• Note: At the end of the class, interested students are encouraged to join the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ team to participate in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.
• Corequisites: COMP 251 or COMP 252

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • David C Becerra

Computer Science (Sci): Finite automata, regular languages, context-free languages, push-down automata, models of computation, computability theory, undecidability, reduction techniques.

Offered by: Computer Science

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: COMP 251.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jérôme Waldispuhl
  • Mathieu Bérubé-Vallières

Computer Science (Sci): ntroduction to language data science, including theoretical approaches and practical skills. Processing, searching, and querying text data; making sense of large corpora; modelling and interpreting psycholinguistic and historical language data; building models of sequences of words; computing similarity between languages; information retrieval and extraction; question answering; and ethics.

Offered by: Computer Science

• Prerequisites: COMP 250, and MATH 240; or permission of the instructor.
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking LING 345.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Siva Reddy

Computer Science (Sci): Selected topics in machine learning and data mining, including clustering, neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees. Methods include feature selection and dimensionality reduction, error estimation and empirical validation, algorithm design and parallelization, and handling of large data sets. Emphasis on good methods and practices for deployment of real systems.

Offered by: Computer Science

• Prerequisite(s): MATH 323 or ECSE 205, COMP 202, MATH 133, MATH 222 (or their equivalents).
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 451, ECSE 551, or PSYC 560.
• Some background in Artificial Intelligence is recommended, e.g. COMP-424 or ECSE-526, but not required.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz, Reihaneh Rabbany
  • Yue Li

Computer Science (Sci): Topics in applied computer science.

Offered by: Computer Science

• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jérôme Waldispuhl, Danilo Bzdok
  • Golnoosh Farnadi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
  • Eesha Sen Choudhury

Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.

Offered by: Economics

• 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

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Paul T Dickinson
  • Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta

English (Arts): A survey of English literature before 1750 for students not registered in English programs.

Offered by: English

• For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
• Fall
• Restriction: Not open to students in English programs

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Earth & Planetary Sciences: An introductory course in physical geology designed for majors in civil and mining engineering. Properties of rocks and minerals, major geological processes, together with natural hazards and their effects on engineered structures are emphasized. The laboratory is an integral part of the course which includes rock and mineral identification, basic techniques of airphoto and geological map interpretation, and structural geology.

Offered by: Earth & Planetary Sciences

• Fall
• 2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory
• Restriction: Open to Engineering students only.
• A nominal fee is charged to cover expenses of materials and supplies for identification kits (pen magnet, streak plate, hand lens and acid bottle) used to identify minerals during laboratory exercises.
• Des frais seront prelevés pour couvrir l'usage des collections d'enseignement et les accessoires (loupe, aimant, bouteille d'acide chlorhydrique dilué, plaque de porcelaine) essentiels à l'identification des minéraux pendant les travaux pratiques.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Kim Berlo, Jeanne Paquette

Geography: 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.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours and lab

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Tim Elrick

Geography: 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.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Geography: 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.

Offered by: Geography

• Note: Winter
• Note: 3 hours

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser

History: 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.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Fall

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Elsbeth Anne Heaman

Linguistics: 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.

Offered by: Linguistics

• Fall and Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Andrei Munteanu
  • Anne Bertrand

Linguistics: The course covers key concepts of speech science, including phonetics (acoustics, speech perception and production), fundamentals in the study of speech processing, speech development, and speech disorders, and introduces some basic methodologies of the field.

Offered by: Linguistics

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Meghan Clayards
  • Weiyi Zhai
  • Andrei Munteanu

Linguistics: A hands-on introduction to the strategies that natural languages use to convey meaning. Requiring no previous background in linguistics, the course surveys fundamental properties of word and sentence meaning and their interdependence with context. It provides an overview of the grammatical mechanisms that languages employ to construct the literal meanings of sentences from word meanings, explores how meanings are anchored to real life situations, and analyzes how meanings are routinely enriched in context by language users to convey more than what is literally expressed.

Offered by: Linguistics

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Bernhard Schwarz
  • Luis Alonso-Ovalle

Linguistics: Introduction to the study of generative syntax of natural languages, emphasizing basic concepts and formalism: phrase structure rules, transformations, and conditions on rules.

Offered by: Linguistics

• Winter
• Prerequisite: LING 201.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Junko Shimoyama
  • Martina Martinovic

Linguistics: The nature of the linguistic knowledge acquired by second language learners, focusing on description and explanation of second language syntax and morphology.

Offered by: Linguistics

• Winter
• Prerequisite: LING 301 or LING 371.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): 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.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

• 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Shereen Elaidi, Hugues Bellemare
  • Jeremy Macdonald

Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Matrix algebra, determinants, systems of linear equations. Abstract vector spaces, inner product spaces, Fourier series. Linear transformations and their matrix representations. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalizable and defective matrices, positive definite and semidefinite matrices. Quadratic and Hermitian forms, generalized eigenvalue problems, simultaneous reduction of quadratic forms. Applications.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

• Winter
• Prerequisite: MATH 133 or equivalent.
• Restriction: Intended for Honours Physics and Engineering students
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 236, MATH 223 or MATH 251

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Tim Hoheisel

Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Derivative as a matrix. Chain rule. Implicit functions. Constrained maxima and minima. Jacobians. Multiple integration. Line and surface integrals. Theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss. Fourier series with applications.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

• Prerequisites: MATH 133, MATH 222
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 248 or MATH 358.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Gabriel Martine
  • Jack Anthony Borthwick

Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, Indian and Arab contributions to mathematics are studied together with some modern developments they give rise to, for example, the problem of trisecting the angle. European mathematics from the Renaissance to the 18th century is discussed, culminating in the discovery of the infinitesimal and integral calculus by Newton and Leibnitz. Demonstration of how mathematics was done in past centuries, and involves the practice of mathematics, including detailed calculations, arguments based on geometric reasoning, and proofs.

Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics

• Fall
• Prerequisites: MATH 133, MATH 141.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jérôme Fortier

Mechanical Engineering: The design process, including free-hand sketching; from geometry construction to engineering construction; the technology and standards of engineering graphic communication; designing with CAD software. The role of visualization in the production of engineering designs.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-3-3)
• Restrictions: Students must be in Year 1 (U1) or higher. Not open to students in Mechanical Engineering.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Vincenzo Stagnitta
  • Vincenzo Stagnitta

Mechanical Engineering: A study of the design issues present in product life cycle demands. Computer-aided systems. Rapid prototyping. Design for manufacturability. Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in products. Effect on design of product cost, maintainability, recycling, marketability.

Offered by: Mechanical Engineering

• (3-0-6)
• Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Permission of the instructor
• **This course will be held on July 14-26, 31, August 1, 2 and there will be an exam due on August 16, 2020.
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the first lecture day and withdrawal is the second lecture day.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Management Core: The role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The principles, components and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements and the analysis of financial results.

Offered by: Management

• Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Jingjing Zhang, Dongyoung Lee, Yin Zhu
  • Yongoh Roh, Yin Zhu

Management Core: An introduction to the principles, issues, and institutions of Finance. Topics include valuation, risk, capital investment, financial structure, cost of capital, working capital management, financial markets, and securities.

Offered by: Management

• Corequisite: MGCR 271 or equivalent
• Restriction: Not open to U0 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Vadim di Pietro
  • Adolfo De Motta, Vadim di Pietro
  • Vadim di Pietro

Management Core: Introduction to marketing principles, focusing on problem solving and decision making. Topics include: the marketing concept; marketing strategies; buyer behaviour; Canadian demographics; internal and external constraints; product; promotion; distribution; price. Lectures, text material and case studies.

Offered by: Management

• Restrictions: Open to U1, U2, U3 students.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Hamid Etemad, Fabienne Cyrius, Aviva Aronovitch, Simon Blanchette
  • Clarice Zhao, Bruce Doré

Mining & Materials Engineering: Economic importance of the minerals industry. Mining: legislation, regulations, criteria for exploiting an ore: mining methods, equipment. Extractive metallurgy: mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy. Environmental protection.

Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering

• (3-3-3)

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Ferri Hassani, Alessandro Navarra, Hani Mitri, Mustafa Kumral, Kristian E Waters, Agus P Sasmito, Ozan Kokkilic, Florence Paray

Mining & Materials Engineering: Characteristics of soil and rock masses and the stability of mine workings. Mechanical properties of rocks and soils related to physical/chemical properties. Characterization of rock mass discontinuities. Laboratory and in-situ techniques to define mechanical properties of soils, rocks and discontinuities. Permeability and groundwater flow principles. In-situ stresses and their measurement. Rock mass quality and classification systems.

Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering

• (3-3-3)
• Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EPSC 221 and MIME 200

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Mehrdad Fadaei Kermani

Mining & Materials Engineering: Geographical distribution of mineral resources. Production, consumption and prices of minerals. Market structure of selected minerals. Economic evaluation aspects: grade-tonnage considerations; capital and operating cost estimation; assessment of market conditions; estimation of revenue; taxation; sensitivity and risk analyses; economic optimization of mine development and extraction.

Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering

• (3-2-4)
• Prerequisite: FACC 300.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Mustafa Kumral

Mining & Materials Engineering: Physical and mechanical characteristics of materials related to loading, transport and storage. Dynamics of particles, systems and rigid bodies, mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum. Types and selection of excavation and haulage equipment. Layout of haul roads. Rail transport. Conveyor belts and chain conveyors. Mine hoists. Layout of mine shafts.

Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering

• (3-3-3)
• Prerequisite: MIME 200

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Agus P Sasmito

Mining & Materials Engineering: Theory and practice of unit operations including: size reduction-crushing and grinding; size separation-screening and classification; mineral separation-flotation, magnetic and gravity separation. Equipment and circuit design and selection. Mass balancing. Laboratory procedures: grindability, liberation, magnetic and gravity separation, flotation and solid-liquid separation.

Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering

• (3-0.5-5.5)
• Prerequisite (Undergraduate): MIME 200 or MIME 250

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Kristian E Waters, Ozan Kokkilic

Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A general treatment of microbiology bearing specifically on the biological properties of microorganisms. Emphasis will be on procaryotic cells. Basic principles of microbial genetics are also introduced.

Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

• Fall
• 3 hours of lecture
• Corequisite: BIOL 200

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Benoit Cousineau, Dao Nguyen, Greg J Matlashewski, Samantha Gruenheid, Jasmin K Chahal, Corinne Maurice, Francois A Le Mauff

Microbiology and Immun (Sci): Basic immunology, organs and cells, elements of innate immunity, phagocytes, complement, elements of adaptive immunity, B-cells, T-cells, antigen presenting cells, MHC genes and molecules, antigen processing and presentation, cytokines and chemokines. Emphasis on anatomy and the molecular and cellular players working together as a physiological system to maintain human health.

Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

• Prerequisite: BIOL 200
• Corequisite: BIOL 201 or ANAT 212/BIOC 212

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jasmin K Chahal

Music-Arts Faculty: An introduction to the major forms and styles in Western music from the baroque to the present, with emphasis on guided listening in the classroom. The ability to read music is not a prerequisite.

Offered by: Music Research

• 3 hours

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jerry M Cain
  • Jerry M Cain

Physiology: Physiology of body fluids, blood, body defense mechanisms, muscle, peripheral, central, and autonomic nervous systems.

Offered by: Physiology

• Fall
• 3 hours lectures weekly
• Prerequisites: BIOL 112, CHEM 110, CHEM 120, PHYS 101 or PHYS 131, and PHYS 102 or PHYS 142. Pre-/co-requisites: BIOL 200, CHEM 212 or equivalent.
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PHGY 211 or students who are taking and who have taken NSCI 200.
• Restriction: For students in the Faculty of Science, and other students by permission of the instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Melissa A Vollrath, David S Ragsdale, Alvin Shrier, Erik P Cook, Céline Aguer

Philosophy: 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.

Offered by: Philosophy

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Philosophy: 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.

Offered by: Philosophy

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Hasana Sharp

Philosophy: 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.

Offered by: Philosophy

• 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.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Marguerite Deslauriers

Philosophy: A survey of major positions of the mind-body problem, focusing on such questions as: Do we have minds and bodies? Can minds affect bodies? Is mind identical to body? If so, in what sense "identical"? Can physical bodies be conscious.

Offered by: Philosophy

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • David Davies

Physics: 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).

Offered by: Physics

• Winter
• Prerequisites: CEGEP Physics or PHYS 102 or PHYS 142 or permission of the instructor
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken PHYS 184.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Shaun MacDonald Lovejoy

Psychology: 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.

Offered by: Psychology

• Fall 2 Lectures, 1 conference

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • M. Dean Graham
  • Mathieu Roy

Psychology: 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.

Offered by: Psychology

• Winter
• 2 lectures, 1 conference
• Prerequisite: One previous course in Psychology.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Brendan T Johns
  • Signy A Sheldon

Psychology: 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).

Offered by: Psychology

• Fall and Winter
• 3 lectures
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken PSYC 330, MGCR 221 or SOCI 216

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • John Lydon
  • Eric L Hehman

Religious Studies: Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural, historical and contemporary contexts.

Offered by: Religious Studies

• Winter

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Aalekhya Malladi

Sustainability in Eng & Design: Critical analysis of the importance of energy to society, the unsustainability of the current energy system, and potential options for a sustainable energy system. Topics include: peak oil and climate change, fundamental energy metrics, traditional and alternative primary and secondary power systems, and energy storage technologies. Quantitative energy analysis is applied to a set of case studies investigating energy use, energy generation, and energy storage and transport.

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design

• (3-0-9)
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
• Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).
• Not open to undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jeffrey M Bergthorson

Sustainability in Eng & Design: Climate resilience and sustainability of engineering systems such as the built environment and engineering infrastructure in the context of a changing climate, possible mitigation and adaptation strategies and associated challenges and opportunities. Review of the basic principles that underpin the science of climate change; the role of global and regional climate models in predicting the behaviour of the climate system in response to different forcing scenarios, and the use of climate model outputs in support of across scale climate-resilience of various engineering systems including infrastructure systems.

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design

• (3-0-6)
• Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Laxmi Sushama

Sustainability in Eng & Design: Introduction to Life Cycle-Based Environmental Footprinting and the application of basic methods for life-cycle environmental inventory and impacts modeling. LCA theory and quantitative analysis, approaches for assessing and reducing the environmental impacts of product, process, and technology systems. System boundary and functional unit design approaches, process-based and input-output-based methods for modeling mass and energy flows in life-cycle systems. How LCA can facilitate sustainable technology innovation and deployment, behavioural and societal changes, and policies, standards and regulations.

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design

• (3-0-6)
• Restrictions: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Engineering (including the School of Architecture and the School of Urban Planning).

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Sarah Jordaan

Sustainability in Eng & Design: Industrial ecology theory, concepts, normative goals and analytical methods. Material and energy flows, environmental impacts of industrial activities, systems thinking, transitioning from linear to closed loop systems, recent contributions to sustainable product systems, urban metabolism, optimized materials or energy management, development of a circular economy, new environmental policies and business models based on product or material lifecycle information. Consumer and organizational behaviour in transitioning to sustainable industrial systems.

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design

• (3-0-6)
• Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Sarah Jordaan

Sustainability in Eng & Design: Role and importance of engineering decisions of environmental, social, and economic problems and the application of decision-making approaches and tools to engineering sustainability. Multi-criteria decision-making, uncertainty analysis, game theory, sustainability metrics, life cycle analysis evaluation and impact assessment methodologies, design problem formulation, stage-dependent strategies, case studies.

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design

• (3-0-6)
• Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Laxmi Sushama

Sociology (Arts): 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.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Ina Filkobski
  • Peter McMahan
  • Ina Filkobski

Sociology (Arts): 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.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Milos Brocic

Sociology (Arts): Contrasting theoretical approaches to social problems.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Mehri Ghazanjani