PhD Courses

School of Information Studies Courses

• INFS 701 Comprehensive Examination

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Defence of a comprehensive research proposal.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 701.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 702 Seminar in Information Studies 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Examination of students' own specific areas of doctoral research within the broader field of information studies and comparisons of those areas with other traditions of inquiry. Theoretical models and research methodologies as applied in information studies.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 702.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 703 Research Paradigms in IS 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Philisophical foundations of research in information studies, including traditions, approaches, methods, and models of inquiry to provide the capacity to critically assess the value of qualitative and quantitative research methods in relation to specific research problems identified in the discipline.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 703.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 704 Research Design in IS 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Research project design and its application to the specific dissertation proposal through the exploration of ways to operationalize key concepts in information studies and to identify critical steps in data collection and analysis.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Not open to students who have taken GLIS 704.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• INFS 705 Readings in IS 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Information Studies: Exploration of the literature specifically relevant to the proposed area of research.

  Offered by: Information Studies

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken GLIS 705.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Courses Offered by Other Departments

McGill graduate courses outside of the School of Information Studies which may be of possible interest to PhD students include:

• REDM 610 Writing Science Articles 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Redpath Museum: Principles and techniques for clear scientific writing with an emphasis on how to transform complex ideas into direct and precise ones by explaining research to peers and writing for interdisciplinary audiences.

  Offered by: Redpath Museum

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to graduate students in the Faculty of Science; graduate students from other faculties considered, space permitting. Enrolment is limited to 12 students. The language of instruction is English and it is not intended as an ESL course. Course is graded pass/fail.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• REDM 710 Writing Science Articles 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Redpath Museum: Skills for writing and publishing scientific articles, including peer-reviewed manuscripts and short, critical reviews of published articles. Topics include techniques for developing logical arguments and writing publishable manuscripts.

  Offered by: Redpath Museum

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
  • Restrictions: Restricted to Ph.D. students in the Faculty of Science; M.Sc. students from the Faculty of Science and Ph.D. students from other faculties considered, space permitting. Enrolment is limited to 12 students. The language of instruction is English and it is not intended as an ESL course. Course is graded pass/fail.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• EDPH 689 Teaching&Learning in Higher Ed 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Ed Psych & Couns (Collegial): Students will develop an understanding of teaching and learning as a process in which instruction is based on the learning to be accomplished. Students will design, develop, and evaluate a university course of their choice, and will develop facility and confidence in using teaching methods appropriate to their domains.

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych

  • Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Qualitative research methods

• FMED 690 Adv Ethno: Context, Comp&Coord 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Family Medicine: Addressing the rationale and assumptions of ethnography, including the practices, processes and strategies to set up, conduct, analyze, write up and provide feedback to participants. This exploration will come from a project based on deep and immersed observation in order to develop an understanding of shared meaning systems (i.e., culture).

  Offered by: Family Medicine

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
  • Restriction: Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.
  • Language of instruction: English

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• SOCI 600 Qualitative Research Methods 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Overview of qualitative research design and modes of data collection, particularly observation, interviewing and focus groups. Students are required to design and undertake their own qualitative research project. Introduction to computerized tools for qualitative data management, transcription and analysis.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Restrictions: Permission of instructor. Not open to students who have taken SOCI 540.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• SOCI 601 Qualitative Research Methods 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): Qualitative data interpretation and analysis. Coding, identifying themes and memo-writing. Students conclude their qualitative research project, writing up findings in the form of a publishable-quality paper.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Seminar will be offered once a week, during the Fall term, for a duration of two hours (1x2).
  • Prerequisite: SOCI 600
  • Restrictions: Permission of instructor.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• EDPE 687 Qualitative Methods in Ed Psyc 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): The logics of design and selection of phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study and mixed design methods with emphasis on data analysis in light of issues of research purpose, epistemology, reliability and validity.

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Quantitative research methods:

• EDPE 676 Intermediate Statistics 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): Concepts and procedures of conducting basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including analysis of variance, correlation, and regression models. Provides experience with data-analysis tools.

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• EDPE 575 Statistics for Practitioners 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): Understanding and interpreting basic statistical procedures used in basic and applied research, including graphs, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, and correlations, t-tests, and basic ANOVA designs.

  Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych

  • Prerequisite EDPE 602

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• PSYC 650 Advanced Statistics 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Psychology: A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design.

  Offered by: Psychology

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• SOCI 504 Quantitative Methods 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Sociology (Arts): An introduction to basic regression techniques commonly used in the social sciences. Covers the least squares linear regression model in depth and may introduce models for discrete dependent variables as well as the maximum-likelihood approach to statistical inference. Emphasis on the assumptions behind regression models and correct interpretation of results. Assignments will emphasize practical aspects of quantitative analysis.

  Offered by: Sociology

  • Prerequisites: SOCI 350 and SOCI 461 or equivalents

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Mixed methods:

• FMED 614 Founds of Mixed Methods Resrch 2 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Family Medicine: Basic training in how to conduct mixed methods research, the most common types of mixed methods research designs, and mixed studies reviews.

  Offered by: Family Medicine

  • Language of Instruction: English.
  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department.
  • Office hours: Tuesdays 12:00 to 2:00 pm
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking DENT 614.

  • Terms
    • Winter 2025
  • Instructors
    • Isabelle M Vedel, Belinda Farias Nicolau, Alissa Levine