Program Overview

University Programs

The university offers a wide range of programs for students to choose from.

Program Options

• Undergraduate programs
• Baccalaureate programs by accumulation
• Graduate programs
• Programs open for the next quarter
• By field of study
  • Layout
  • Arts and music
  • Communication
  • Law
  • Economy and politics
  • Teaching and educational sciences
  • Environment and sustainable development
  • Letters and languages
  • Individualized programs
  • Administrative sciences and management
  • Health Sciences
  • Life sciences
  • Humanities
  • Pure sciences and applied sciences
  • Social sciences
  • Social sciences: intervention
  • Information and communications technologies
  • Theology and religious sciences

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to a program, students must meet certain requirements.

• Make an informed choice
• Check eligibility conditions
• Respect the submission deadlines
• Understand the evaluation of files
• Schedule interviews and tests
• Obtain recognition of experiential acquired knowledge
• Understand inclusive admission

Student Categories

The university caters to different types of students, including:

• Student in Quebec
• Student in Canada (outside Quebec)
• International student
• Free student
• Member of indigenous communities
• Member of black communities
• High school student
• Parent
• Guidance counselor

Specific Program: Bachelor’s degree in screenwriting and creative writing

Study regulations provisions specific to the program

• The student registers full-time or part-time.
• Full-time, the student registers for a minimum of 12 credits and a maximum of 18 credits per term.
• Part-time, the student must enroll in a minimum of nine credits in four consecutive terms.
• Regardless of the optional courses chosen, the student must complete 42 CIN course credits and 42 FRA course credits.
• The path includes 27 compulsory credits during the first year, 12 during the second year and 9 during the final year.
• The second and third year literary creation and screenwriting courses have respectively the first and second year creation and screenwriting courses as prerequisites.

Art. 6.6 Refresher courses

• Depending on the result obtained in the written expression test of a French test recognized by the University of Montreal, the student could be prescribed one or two written French courses.
• This requirement could be modified or canceled if the student submits a new result before the deadlines set by the University.
• The compulsory course is taken outside the program and must be passed during the first year of study.

Art. 6.10 Schooling

• The minimum education for the program is six terms, the maximum education is six years.

Art. 8.2 Credit recognition - Course equivalence

• In the case of course equivalences, recognition is conditional on the objectives, content and level of the course.
• Generally speaking, only courses taken in the ten years preceding the student's first registration in the program can be subject to equivalence.

Art. 11.2 Average determining progress in the program

• The cumulative average, calculated at the end of each term, determines progression in the program.

Art. 13.4 Method of resuming following a course failure

• Generally speaking, a student who fails a course must retake it or, with the approval of the competent authority, substitute another course.

Art. 14.1 Promotion system

• Promotion by course prevails in the program.

Art. 18 Granting of grades and certificates

• Successful completion of the program entitles you to a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).