Beginning fall 2018, new students in Electrical and Computer Engineering have to complete a general "free" elective. This is a 3-credit course taken at the 200-level or higher from any department at Â鶹AV, approved by the ECE Undergraduate Office (ENGTR 2060). This course is considered a core course so it must be passed with a grade of "C" or better and cannot be taken under the S/U option.Ìý
PLEASE NOTE:
* We will not approve design project and independent research project courses offered in other units of the university.
* Students are allowed to select an ECSE course which is inside or outside of their program (ex. an extra TC), provided they meet the prerequisites.
* Students must get approval from the ECE Undergraduate Office when they choose their elective course, unless it's on the pre-approved list below.Ìý
To provide more guidance, here is a list of some pre-approved courses (as of September 2018). You do not have to get approval from our office if the course is on this list:
ANAT 261
Intro to Dynamic Histology
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Craig A. Mandato, Carlos R Morales
ANTH 201
Introduction to Archaeology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
ANTH 204
Anthropology of Meaning
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- 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
ANTH 227
Medical Anthropology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
ARTH 202
Intro to Contemporary Art
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
ARTH 207
Intro Early Mod. Art 1400-1700
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
ATOC 219
Intro to Atmospheric Chemistry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
BIOL 200
Molecular Biology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Kenneth E M Hastings, Paul Lasko, Shaun Turney, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Serge Champetier
BIOL 201
Cell Biology & Metabolism
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Gary J Brouhard, Siegfried Hekimi, Huanquan Zheng, Serge Champetier
BIOL 206
Methods in Biology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Laura J Pollock, Hans Carl E Larsson, Shaun Turney
BIOL 215
Intro to Ecology and Evolution
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Neil Price, Rees Kassen, Gregor F Fussmann
BIOL 219
Intro to Phys Mol & Cell Biol
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Stephanie Weber, Alanna J Watt, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Adam G Hendricks
BIOL 240
Monteregian Flora
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
BIEN 219
Intro to Phys Mol & Cell Biol
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Adam G Hendricks, Alanna J Watt, Rodrigo Reyes Lamothe, Stephanie Weber
BMDE 508
Intro. to Micro & Nano-Bioeng
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
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BUSA 499
Course not available
CHEE 200
Chem Engineering Principles 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
CHEE 220
Chemical Engrg Thermodynamics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault
CHEM 203
Survey of Physical Chemistry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
CHEM 204
Physical Chem/Biological Scis1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Rustam Khaliullin
- Lucas Caire da Silva
CHEM 212
Intro Organic Chemistry 1
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Danielle K Vlaho, Mitchell J Huot, Pallavi Sirjoosingh, Youla S Tsantrizos, Laura Pavelka, Nathan Luedtke
- Danielle K Vlaho, Mitchell J Huot, Pallavi Sirjoosingh
CHEM 234
Topics in Organic Chemistry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Pallavi Sirjoosingh, Nicolas Moitessier, Nathan Luedtke
CHEM 334
Advanced Materials
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
CHEM 531
Chem of Inorganic Materials
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- 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
CIVE 205
Statics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Luc E Chouinard
- Matiyas A Bezabeh
CIVE 207
Solid Mechanics
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
CIVE 281
Analytical Mechanics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
CLAS 220
Introductory Ancient Greek 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
COMP 321
Programming Challenges
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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 Â鶹AV team to participate in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition.
- Corequisites: COMP 251 or COMP 252
COMP 330
Theory of Computation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jérôme Waldispuhl
- Mathieu Bérubé-Vallières
COMP 345
From Natural Lang to Data Sci
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
COMP 551
Applied Machine Learning
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz, Reihaneh Rabbany
- Yue Li
COMP 598
Topics in CS: Applications 1
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Computer Science (Sci): Topics in applied computer science.
Offered by: Computer Science
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jérôme Waldispuhl, Danilo Bzdok
- Golnoosh Farnadi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
ECON 208
Microeconomic Analysis&Applic
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Eesha Sen Choudhury, Leonie Baumann
- Eesha Sen Choudhury
ECON 209
Macroeconomic Analysis&Applic
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Offered by: Economics
- Terms
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Summer 2025
- Instructors
- Paul T Dickinson
- Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta
ENGL 200
Survey of English Literature 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
EPSC 221
General Geology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Kim Berlo, Jeanne Paquette
GEOG 201
Intro Geo-Information Science
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
GEOG 210
Global Places and Peoples
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- 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
GEOG 217
Cities in the Modern World
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Benjamin Forest, Sarah Moser
HIST 202
Survey: Canada to 1867
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
LING 201
Introduction to Linguistics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Andrei Munteanu
- Anne Bertrand
LING 210
Introduction to Speech Science
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
LING 260
Meaning in Language
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Bernhard Schwarz
- Luis Alonso-Ovalle
LING 371
Syntax 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Junko Shimoyama
- Martina Martinovic
LING 455
Second Language Syntax
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- 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
MATH 223
Linear Algebra
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Shereen Elaidi, Hugues Bellemare
- Jeremy Macdonald
MATH 247
Honours Applied Linear Algebra
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MATH 314
Advanced Calculus
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Gabriel Martine
- Jack Anthony Borthwick
MATH 338
History & Philosophy of Math
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MECH 289
Design Graphics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Vincenzo Stagnitta
- Vincenzo Stagnitta
MECH 528
Product Design
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MGCR 211
Intro to Financial Accounting
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MGCR 341
Introduction to Finance
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MGCR 352
Principles of Marketing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MIME 200
Intro to the Minerals Industry
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Ferri Hassani, Alessandro Navarra, Hani Mitri, Mustafa Kumral, Kristian E Waters, Agus P Sasmito, Ozan Kokkilic, Florence Paray
MIME 323
Rock and Soil Mass Character
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MIME 325
Mineral Industry Economics
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MIME 333
Materials Handling
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MIME 341
Intro to Mineral Processing
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Kristian E Waters, Ozan Kokkilic
MIMM 211
Introductory Microbiology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Benoit Cousineau, Dao Nguyen, Greg J Matlashewski, Samantha Gruenheid, Jasmin K Chahal, Corinne Maurice, Francois A Le Mauff
MIMM 214
Intro Immun: Elem of Immunity
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
MUAR 211
The Art of Listening
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jerry M Cain
- Jerry M Cain
PHGY 209
Mammalian Physiology 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Physiology: Physiology of body fluids, blood, body defense mechanisms, muscle, peripheral, central, and autonomic nervous systems.
Offered by: Physiology
- Terms
- Instructors
- Melissa A Vollrath, David S Ragsdale, Alvin Shrier, Erik P Cook, Céline Aguer
PHIL 237
Contemporary Moral Issues
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
PHIL 240
Political Philosophy 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
PHIL 242
Intro to Feminist Theory
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
PHIL 306
Philosophy of Mind
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
PHYS 214
Course not available
PHYS 228
Energy and the Environment
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
PHYS 446
Course not available
PSYC 212
Perception
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- M. Dean Graham
- Mathieu Roy
PSYC 213
Cognition
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Brendan T Johns
- Signy A Sheldon
PSYC 215
Social Psychology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
RELG 271
Religion and Sexuality
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Religious Studies: Exploration of intersections between religion, gender and sexuality in diverse cultural,
historical and contemporary contexts.
Offered by: Religious Studies
SEAD 510
Energy Analysis
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
SEAD 515
Climate Change Adapt&Eng Infra
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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).
SEAD 520
Life Cycle-Based Env Footprint
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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).
SEAD 540
Industrial Ecology and Systems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
SEAD 550
Dec-Making for Sust: Eng & Des
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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.
SOCI 210
Sociological Perspectives
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
- Instructors
- Ina Filkobski
- Peter McMahan
- Ina Filkobski
SOCI 222
Urban Sociology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
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
SOCI 250
Social Problems
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Sociology (Arts): Contrasting theoretical approaches to social problems.
Offered by: Sociology
We have alsoÌýprepared a list of general electives which are NOT PERMITTED:Ìý
• Computer Science: COMP 202, COMP 204, COMP 208, COMP 273, COMP 350 (EE & HEE only), COMP 361, COMP 396, COMP 400, COMP 401, COMP 402, COMP 480, any other COMP course which has an equivalent ECSE number (e.g., COMP 303, COMP 310); the equivalent ECSE course should be taken
• Bioengineering: BIEN 350, BIEN 470, BIEN 471
• Mechanical Engineering: MECH 262, MECH 309, MECH 383, MECH 412, MECH 463, MECH 498, MECH 499, MECH 513 (should register for ECSE 501 instead)
• Chemical Engineering: CHEE 231, CHEE 291, CHEE 390, CHEE 456, CHEE 457
• Civil Engineering: CIVE 206 (EE and HEE only), CIVE 302, CIVE 320 (EE and HEE only), CIVE 418, CIVE 470
• Continuing Education: CESL 300, CGMG 319
• Electrical & Computer Engineering: ECSE 461 (EE and HEE)
• Mining & Materials Engineering: MIME 209, MIME 261 (EE and HEE), MIME 311
• Mathematics: MATH 203, MATH 204, MATH 222, MATH 315, MATH 323, MATH 317 (EE and HEE only), MATH 325, MATH 340 (CE and SE only), MATH 410, MATH 470, MATH 480
• Physics: PHYS 228 (not approved if you have taken or will be taking ECSE 463/ECSE 562/SEAD 510), PHYS 230 (EE & HEE), PHYS 241, PHYS 242, PHYS 251 (EE & HEE), PHYS 257, PHYSÌý258, PHYS 328, PHYS 340 (EE, HEE & CE), PHYS 342 (EE, HEE & CE), PHYS 350 (EE, HEE & CE), PHYS 352Ìý(EE, HEE & CE), PHYS 434 (if the student has taken ECSE 423), PHYS 449, PHYS 459, PHYS 479
• Agricultural & Environmental Sciences: AEMA 202, AEMA 305, AEMA 310, BREE 252, BREE 312, BREE 319,ÌýFAES 313, FAES 323, FAES 371, FAES 372, FAES 401, FAES 402
• Education: EDEC 203
• Management: INSY 333, MGCR 271
• Music: MUMT 501 (EE, HEE and CE)