Course Listings

The courses listed in this section include all courses approved for the undergraduate curriculum for the 2018-2019 academic year. Not all courses in the approved curriculum will be offered during the year. Students are advised to refer to the course timetables available annually in Mosaic in March and June to determine which specific courses will be offered in the upcoming sessions.
Note: An A/B suffix appearing in a course number indicates that the course may be delivered across more than one term (see Multi-Term Course in the Glossary  of this calendar). The A/B S suffix indicates that the course may be delivered as either a multi-term course or within a single term.

See also:

• Elective Courses Available To Level I Students  
• Availability of Upper-Level Elective Courses  

Please note, when searching courses by “Code or Number”, an asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard character to return mass results. For example, a “Code or Number” search of ” 2* ” can be entered returning all level II courses.

Chemistry

Courses in Chemistry are administered by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
A.N. Bourns Science Building, Room 156, ext. 23490
http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/

Department Notes

1. CHEM 1AA3  is a prerequisite for CHEM 2E03  and CHEM 2E03  is a prerequisite for BIOCHEM 2EE3 .
2. Students seeking permission and/or a seat authorization for a Chemistry or Chemical Biology course must submit an application for academic permission to the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology  (email: advisor@chemistry.mcmaster.ca) well in advance of the start of the term.

Courses

If no prerequisite is listed, the course is open.

Chinese

Chinese 1Z06 is administered by the Department of Linguistics and Languages .
Togo Salmon Hall, Room 629, ext. 24388
http://linguistics.humanities.mcmaster.ca/

Course

If no prerequisite is listed, the course is open.

Civil Eng Infrastructure Tech

Courses in Civil Engineering Infrastructure Technology are administered by the Bachelor of Technology Program.
Engineering Technology Building (ETB), Room 121, ext. 20195
http://mybtechdegree.ca

Civil Engineering

Courses in Civil Engineering are administered by the Department of Civil Engineering.
John Hodgins Engineering Building, Room 301, ext. 24287 or 24315
http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/civil

Department Notes

1. All Civil Engineering courses are open to students registered in a civil engineering program, subject to prerequisite requirements. Prior permission of the Department is necessary for students from other engineering departments and other faculties.
2. Unless otherwise stated, the duration and the frequency of activities are as follows:
   • one lecture consists of one hour each week
   • one tutorial consists of two hours each week
   • one lab consists of three hours each week

Classics

Courses in Classics are administered by the Department of Classics.
Togo Salmon Hall, Room 706, ext. 24311
http://classics.humanities.mcmaster.ca/

No language other than English is required for courses listed under Classics.

Department Note

The following courses are available as electives to qualified students in any program:

1. Classical Archaeology and Art History 

• CLASSICS 1A03 - Introduction to Classical Archaeology  
• CLASSICS 2B03 - Greek Art  
• CLASSICS 2C03 - Roman Art  
• CLASSICS 3H03 - Archaic Greek Art  
• CLASSICS 3Q03 - Greek Sanctuaries  
• CLASSICS 3S03 - Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia  

2. Ancient History and Society

• CLASSICS 1M03 - History of Greece and Rome  
• CLASSICS 2K03 - The Society of Greece and Rome  
• CLASSICS 2LA3 - History of Greece to the Peloponnesian War  
• CLASSICS 2LB3 - History of Greece from the Peloponnesian War  
• CLASSICS 2LC3 - History of Rome to the Dictatorship of Caesar  
• CLASSICS 2LD3 - History of Rome from the Dictatorship of Caesar  

3. Classical Literature in Translation

• CLASSICS 1B03 - An Introduction to Ancient Myth and Literature  
• CLASSICS 2D03 - Greek and Roman Mythology  
• CLASSICS 2E03 - The Ancient World in Film  
• CLASSICS 2YY3 - Greek Tragedy  
• CLASSICS 3EE3 - The Greek Historians  
• CLASSICS 3M03 - Greek Intellectual Revolution  
• CLASSICS 3YY3 - Ovid  
• CLASSICS 3Z03 - Satire  

4. Classical Languages

• GREEK 1Z03 - Beginner’s Intensive Ancient Greek I  
• GREEK 1ZZ3 - Beginner’s Intensive Ancient Greek II  
• LATIN 1Z03 - Beginner’s Intensive Latin I  
• LATIN 1ZZ3 - Beginner’s Intensive Latin II  

Courses

If no prerequisite is listed, the course is open.

See also courses in Greek and Latin. 

Collaborative

Nursing Consortium (A) Stream (Collab) courses are administered by the School of Nursing.
Health Sciences Centre, Room 2J16, ext. 22407
http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/nursing/

Note

The following courses are open only to those students at the Mohawk College or Conestoga College sites who are registered in the McMaster/Mohawk/Conestoga Collaborative B.Sc.N program (A or E Streams) with the exception of COLLAB 2F03  (Medical Informatics) and COLLAB 2K03  (Introduction to Health Informatics) which are also open to students registered in the B.Sc.N. (A) Stream (McMaster Site).

Courses
See also courses in Nursing.