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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 91社区, 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 91社区 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:

• Credit will be given for ONLY ONE of the following introductory statistics courses: AEMA 310, BIOL 373, ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, GEOG 202, MATH 203, MGCR 271, MGCR 273, PSYC 204, SOCI 350.
• Credit will be given for ONLY ONE of the following intermediate statistics courses: AEMA 411, ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, GEOG 351, MATH 204, PSYC 305, SOCI 461 with the exception that you may receive credit for both PSYC 305 and ECON 227D1/D2 or ECON 257D1/D2.
• If you have already received credit for MATH 324 or MATH 357, you will NOT receive credit for any of the following: AEMA 310, AEMA 411, BIOL 373, ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, GEOG 202, GEOG 351, MATH 203, MATH 204, MGCR 271, MGCR 273, PSYC 204, PSYC 305, SOCI 350.
• For 500-level statistics courses not listed above, you must consult a program adviser to ensure that no significant overlap exists. Where such overlap exists with a course for which you have already received credit, credit for the 500-level course will not be allowed.
• Credit for statistics courses offered by faculties other than Arts and Science requires the permission of the Director of Advising Services, Science, except for students in the B.Sc. Major in Environment, who may take required statistics courses in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences necessary to satisfy their program requirements.
• PSYC 204 may not be taken if a grade of 75% or better was received in an equivalent course completed at CEGEP.

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 ( ). 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:

• You may take only 6 credits per year, up to 18 credits in all, of courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science.
• Courses offered 鈥渋n the Faculty of Science鈥� or 鈥渋n the Faculty of Arts鈥� are found under Programs, Courses and University Regulations > All Courses (available at www.mcgill.ca/study) when filtered by "Faculty of Science" or by "Faculty of Arts".
• Courses in other faculties that are considered as taught by Science (e.g., BIOT, EXMD, and PHAR) are so designated as offered by the "Faculty of Science" under Programs, Courses and University Regulations > All Courses (available at www.mcgill.ca/study).
• Courses in Music are considered as outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, except MUAR courses, which are considered as Arts courses.
• All courses listed in the Religious Studies section (RELG) are considered as courses in Arts and Science except for courses restricted to B.Th. or S.T.M. students and courses that require permission of the Chair of the B.Th. Committee.
• Students should consult the list of restricted courses outside of the Faculties of Arts and of Science on the SOUSA website (www.mcgill.ca/science/student).
• You must have the necessary prerequisites and permission of the instructor for such courses.
• Credit for computer and statistics courses offered by faculties other than Arts and Science requires the permission of the Director of Advising Services and will be granted only under exceptional circumstances.
• If you use Minerva to register for a course, and it exceeds the specified limitations or it is not approved, the course will be flagged for no credit after the course change period.
• Credit will not be given for any 鈥渉ow to鈥� courses offered by other faculties that are intended to provide you with only practical or professional training in specific applied areas. Examples include courses that teach the use of certain computer packages (databases, spreadsheets, etc.) or computer languages (SQL, COBOL, FORTRAN, etc.), machine shop or electronic shop courses, technical drawing courses, and professional practice courses.
• As a student in the 91社区 School of Environment, you may exceed the 18-credit limit for courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, provided that all such courses are necessary to complete your program of study.
• As a student in the Major in Software Engineering, you may exceed the 18-credit limit for courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, provided that all such courses are necessary to complete your program of study.
• As a student in the B.Sc. Liberal Program taking a Major Concentration in Music, you may exceed the 18-credit limit for courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, provided that all such courses are necessary to complete your program of study, up to a maximum of 36 Music credits.
• If you registered in the Minor in Management before September 2007, you may take 21 credits of courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science.
• The 18-credit limit applies to students taking the Minor in Nutrition; equivalent courses in Science should be taken instead of courses in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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 91社区 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 91社区 will only be considered for transfer credits under the following conditions:

• The course is given by a government-accredited, degree-granting institution acceptable to 91社区.
• The course counts for credit toward degrees granted at the institution giving the course.
• The combined total of regular course credits and distance education course credits do not exceed the permitted maximum number of credits per term according to Faculty regulations.
• Courses taught through distance education may not be used to complete program requirements, except on an individual basis when serious, documented circumstances warrant it.

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 91社区, 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.

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.