麦吉尔大学

McGill's Faculty of Science is one of the world's great centres of science education and research because we're a community consisting of top students taught by top professors. It's as simple as that. Our students have the highest entrance grades in the country, and are counted among the best in the world. We also boast a young and vibrant faculty, thanks to a hiring blitz over the past several years that has allowed us to rejuvenate our teaching staff and recruit top scholars from around the world.

Liberal Program

This is a flexible and modular program. This option allows you to combine a core science component (CSC) in one discipline with a breadth component which may consist of a minor, a major concentration from the Faculty of Arts, or a second CSC. Consider the Liberal program if you do not want to overly specialise - plus, you will still have room left over for elective courses.

Program Requirements

This program covers a core of programming and software engineering courses and allows students to select courses that aim at practical aspects of software development.

Required Courses (36 credits)

* Students who have sufficient knowledge in a programming language do not need to take COMP 202 and can replace it with additional computer science complementary course credits.

COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits) *
COMP 206 Introduction to Software Systems (3 credits)
COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits)
COMP 251 Algorithms and Data Structures (3 credits)
COMP 273 Introduction to Computer Systems (3 credits)
COMP 302 Programming Languages and Paradigms (3 credits)
COMP 303 Software Design (3 credits)
COMP 310 Operating Systems (3 credits)
COMP 361D1 Software Engineering Project (3 credits)
COMP 361D2 Software Engineering Project (3 credits)
MATH 223 Linear Algebra (3 credits)
MATH 240 Discrete Structures (3 credits)

Complementary Courses (13 credits)

3 credits selected from:

COMP 330 Theory of Computation (3 credits)
COMP 360 Algorithm Design (3 credits)

10 credits from:

COMP 322 Introduction to C++ (1 credit)
COMP 409 Concurrent Programming (3 credits)
COMP 421 Database Systems (3 credits)
COMP 520 Compiler Design (4 credits)
COMP 525 Formal Verification (3 credits)
COMP 529 Software Architecture (4 credits)
COMP 533 Model-Driven Software Development (3 credits)
COMP 535 Computer Networks 1 (4 credits)
ECSE 326 Software Requirements Engineering (3 credits)
ECSE 437 Software Delivery (3 credits)
ECSE 539 Advanced Software Language Engineering (4 credits)

Over the course of three years (U1, U2 and U3), students will complete a 90-credit degree. For students from high schools outside Quebec, a 30-credit freshman year (called U0) will be added at the start of your studies (making this a four-year, 120-credit degree).