Courses and Grades
Important Dates and Deadlines:Students are responsible for knowing the deadlines involved with course registration, final examinations and convocation.
Transfer Credits: Students may be eligible to receive transfer credits. Here, you can view the steps necessary to obtain the credits and their corresponding deadlines.
Inter-University Transfer (IUT): Find out how you can take courses outside 㽶Ƶ. For non-McGill students taking courses within McGill, only 400 and 500 level courses are available for registration.
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Option (complementary courses): The Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Option may be used only for the following groups of courses:Complementary Studies courses, Basic Science Complementary Courses and Elective Courses. The S/U Option must be specified at the time of registration on MINERVA.
Extra Courses:All Engineering students must follow the sample curriculum designed for their program. However, students who wish to take additional courses outside their program requirements may take no more than 2 courses (total of 6 credits) outside of the core program in a given term. Students may classify these courses as "extra” (provided they choose this option at the time of registration before the add/drop deadline).
Incomplete Grades: View the regulations surrounding L and K grades, what these letters represent, and under what circumstances J grades are given.
Prerequisite/Corequisite Conditions: Many courses are to be followed in sequence and students are to complete all prerequisites/corequisites. View the conditions for course registration.
Repeated /Duplicate Courses for courses previously completed:The Faculty of Engineering does not permit students to take the same course again for credit.