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Courses and Studying

General View of the Auditorium
Auditorium, photo by Alex Tran
The Redpath Museum offers programs and courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels on the creation, maintenance and use of natural history collections for research purposes. Redpath Museum professors also teach in biology and environmental sciences, amongst others. For information about any of the Redpath Museum courses, including the Natural History minor, please contact David Green, Curriculum Committee Chair: david.green [at] mcgill.ca.

Undergraduate

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Minor Natural History (24 Credits)

Concentration in Biological Diversity and Systematics (Department of Biology)

Domain of Biodiversity and Conservation (McGill School of Environment)

REDM 396 Undergraduate Research Project 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

**Natural History minor students in the Summer 2020 and Fall 2021 terms will be able to take REDM 396 and do an individual field (or outdoor) project in lieu of doing a field course as all the field courses are cancelled.

REDM 400 Science and Museums 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

REDM 405 Natural History of East Africa 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

REDM 511 Advanced Museum-Based Science 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

To find out about other undergraduate courses offered at the Redpath Museum, visit McGill's eCalendar site and search for the course prefix REDM. You can also connect with David Green, the Chair of the Redpath Museum Curriculum committee: david.green [at] mcgill.ca. 

Graduate

For general information, please refer to the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies web pages.

The Redpath Museum has an active graduate training program devoted to research in biosystematics and evolutionary biology leading to MSc and PhD degrees. Students are enrolled in McGill's Department of Biology or Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.   These students are supervised by Museum professors. Anyone interested should contact them directly.

 

Summer 2021 priority list: File current_priority_points_list_summer_2021.xlsx

Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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