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The Faculty of Arts does not prevent you from registering for courses if you do not have the required prerequisites. However, if you lack the prerequisite course, you must consult with the instructor of the course you want to take, to ensure that you have the necessary background. Please note that other faculties may not allow registration without the required prerequisite courses.

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 Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, CEGEP, at another university, or Advanced Placement exams, Advanced Level results, International Baccalaureate Diploma, or French Baccalaureate. It is your responsibility to consult Arts OASIS 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 Æ»¹ûÒùÔº course exemptions: www.mcgill.ca/student-records/transfercredits.

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, EPSC 215, 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, MGCR 272, PSYC 305, SOCI 461. Only when ECON 227D1/D2 or ECON 257D1/D2 is combined with PSYC 305, will credit be given for both courses.
• Students who have already received credit for MATH 324 or MATH 357 will NOT receive credit for any of the following: AEMA 310, AEMA 411, BIOL 373, ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, EPSC 215, GEOG 202, GEOG 351, MATH 203, MATH 204, MGCR 271, MGCR 272, MGCR 273, PSYC 204, PSYC 305, SOCI 350.
• For 500-level statistics courses not listed above, students must consult a program adviser to ensure that no significant overlap exists. Where such overlap exists with a course for which the student has already received credit, credit for the 500-level course will not be allowed.
• PSYC 204 may not be taken if a grade of 75% was received in an equivalent course completed at CEGEP.

Credit for computer courses will be subject to the following restrictions:

• Credit for courses offered by the School of Computer Science is governed by rules specified in each individual course description.

The following regulations apply to you if you wish to take courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science:

• Regardless of the minimum credit requirement towards your B.A. degree, you are allowed a maximum of 12 credits in elective and/or complementary courses taken in faculties other than the Faculties of Arts and of Science.
• In certain designated programs that include a number of required and complementary courses in other faculties, you are permitted a maximum of 30 credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science. These programs are as follows:
  • Faculty programs:
  • Environment
  • Industrial Relations
  • Minors:
  • Education for Arts students
  • Finance for non-Management students
  • Management for non-Management students
  • Marketing for non-Management students
  • Musical Applications of Technology
  • Musical Science and Technology
  • Operations Management for non-Management students
  • Minor Concentrations:
  • Educational Psychology
  • Environment
  • Geography Urban Systems
  • Music
  • Major Concentrations:
  • Geography Urban Systems
  • Music
  • Honours:
  • Environment
  • Urban Systems
  • Joint Honours:
  • Economics and Accounting
  • Economics and Finance

• If you combine any two or more of the programs listed above, you may not exceed 40 credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science.

• Any courses taught at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº University may be used towards the maximum allowed with the following exceptions:
  • Continuing Education: Continuing Education courses with a teaching unit that starts with C are not for credit (except for CHEM).
  • Distance Education: Refer to Policy on Distance Education Courses in this publication.

• For the purpose of this policy, courses taught in other faculties and specifically listed in the Arts or Science section of this publication are considered as courses taught in the Faculties of Arts and of Science.

• For the purpose of this policy, all courses taken to fulfil the requirements for an approved field semester will be considered as courses in Arts or Science.

• The maximum number of credits allowed will be strictly enforced.

If you transfer from a faculty outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science at another institution, you may transfer up to a maximum of 30 credits under the following conditions:

• Only courses passed with a grade of C or better will be transferred. Grades of C-, P or S are not acceptable. The letter grades applied by your former home institution take precedence over the numerical grades if provided.
• Decisions on whether a course is outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science will be based on the original faculty in which your course was taken.
• Refer to Policy on Distance Education Courses.
• Transfer credits for Continuing Education courses will be granted only if the courses can be used towards a degree program in a faculty other than Continuing Education at your former home university.
• You will be allowed to take courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº only if you have transferred fewer than 12 credits, and then only up to a maximum of 12 credits.
• If you register for a Faculty of Arts program that requires additional credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, you will be allowed to take only the number of credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science required to complete your program. These programs are listed under Courses Outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science.

You will normally have counted for credit (for grades of D or better) and/or GPA (regardless of the grade) all courses in Arts and Science, and up to a maximum of 30 credits of courses outside of Arts and of Science.

• You will be allowed to take courses outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº only if you have transferred fewer than 12 credits, and then only up to a maximum of 12 credits.

• If you register for a Faculty of Arts program that requires additional credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science, you will be allowed to take only the number of credits outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science required to complete your program. These programs are listed under Courses Outside the Faculties of Arts and of Science.

A maximum of 6 credits of elective courses taught through distance education may be used towards your degree at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº. Courses taught through distance education from institutions other than Æ»¹ûÒùÔº will be approved as transfer credits under the following conditions:

• the course is given by a government-accredited, degree-granting institution acceptable to Æ»¹ûÒùÔº;
• the course counts for credit towards degrees granted at the institution giving the course;
• prior approval for the course is obtained from Arts OASIS.

The combined total of regular course credits and distance education course credits may 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. In such cases, prior approval must be obtained from your departmental academic adviser and the Associate Dean (Student Affairs).

The Faculty of Arts offers internship courses for credit. For more information, refer to Faculty of Arts Internship Program.

Up to a maximum of 12 credits of ESL courses, including academic writing courses for non-anglophones, are open to you if your primary language is not English and you have studied for fewer than five years in an English-language secondary institution.

Placement tests are required for all courses offered through the English and French Language Centre. Soon after the tests are evaluated, you will be issued a departmental approval for course registration.

Registration for First-Year Seminars is limited to students in their first year of study at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, 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. For a complete listing, see First-Year Seminars.

The First-Year Seminars offered by the Faculty of Science are also open to Arts students. For a complete listing, see Faculty of Science > Registration for First-Year Seminars in this publication.