PRE-ADMISSION ACADEMIC CHECKLIST
MASTER’S (Thesis) PROGRAM IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCHOOL/APPLIED
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY STREAM
Name of Applicant:
Semester and Year Applying for (ex: Fall 2013):
For admission to the Master’s (Thesis) degree in Educational Psychology: School/Applied Child
Psychology Stream, applicants must have a minimum total of 42 undergraduate course credits
across the content domains listed on the following page. Domains marked with a † must have 3
of the 6 credits required completed at the senior undergraduate level; these domains are: the
biological, social-cultural, cognitive-affective, developmental, and history and systems of
psychology domains. Senior undergraduate coursework is defined as beyond introductory in
nature and content and are normally taken in the third and fourth years of undergraduate
study (e.g., 300 and 400-level courses).
In exceptional cases, applicants who do not meet all the course credit requirements may be
permitted to do course remediation during their degree. Courses that you list below will be
reviewed by the Program Administration prior to admission. For assistance, please consult the
School/Applied Child Psychology Pre-Admission Academic Domains Guide found here:
http://www.mcgill.ca/edu-ecp/programs/schoolpsych/ma.
Instructions:
- Enter the total course credit attained for each domain.
- Enter the completed course titles indicating if it is an undergraduate or graduate course
(graduate courses should only be used if there are no eligible undergraduate courses).
- If taken at more than one institution, indicate with institution the course was completed
at (abbreviations accepted; for example: ‘U.T.’ for University of Toronto).
- Include the course number and grade received for each course.
- Do not list any course more than once.
- More than the required allotment of courses can be listed in each domain.
- Any course listed should be substantially in the content domain (e.g. an Intro to
Psychology course that reviews the history of psychology is not a History of Psychology
course).
Domains with a † must have at least 3 credits completed at the senior undergraduate
level.
Missing Courses - Remediation (for internal use only)
Reviewer Signature:
Date:
Course Content
Domain
OPQ
Course
Credit
Req’d.
1. Biological
domain †
6
2. Social-cultural
domain †
6
3. Cognitiveaffective domain †
6
4. Developmental
Psychology †
6
5. History and
Systems of
Psychology †
3
6. Psychological
Measurement and
Assessment
3
7. Research
Methods
3
8. Statistics
3
9. Personality
3
10. Abnormal
Psychology
3
Course
Credit
Value
Course Title (indicate whether the course is an
undergraduate [UG] or graduate [GR] course,
along with University)
Course
Number(s)
Grade(s)