Undergraduate student resources
Support and advising
General inquiries: psychology.py.reception@concordia.ca
Registration and elective groups: psychology.undergraduate@concordia.ca
Information on applications or form submissions: psychology.forms@concordia.ca
Advising and guidance: psychology.advising@concordia.ca
Amanda and Karen's virtual help for general questions
Mondays: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Tuesdays: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Honours students and Specialization students (with PSYC 485)
Please email Jayson San Miguel for advising help.
Major students and Specialization students (without PSYC 485)
Your academic advisor is Kim Archer. Please either attend a Zoom drop-in sessions or make an appointment.
Drop-in advising via Zoom for quick questions
- Tuesdays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Wednesdays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- Fridays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Newly admitted students
Attendance of a New Student Orientation session is mandatory and must be completed before you can enroll for classes. You will be eligible to participate in the session as soon as you confirm your admission and pay the admission confirmation deposit. Once your admission is confirmed, you will receive an email with instructions to register for orientation and the Faculty of Arts and Science Touchstone as well.
Kindly monitor your email for communications sent by the department. All communications will be sent to your preferred email address – the address where you receive emails from the University, as it appears in your Student Hub.
Current Psychology/Neuroscience students
Download the checklist that applies to your program to keep track of your progress:
- BA Major in Psychology checklist
- BA Specialization in Psychology checklist
- BA Honours in Psychology checklist
- BSc Major in Psychology checklist
- BSc Specialization in Psychology checklist
- BSc Honours in Psychology checklist
- BSc Specialization in Neuroscience checklist
- BSc Honours In Neuroscience checklist
- BSc Specialization in Psychology (Behavioural Neuroscience option) checklist
- BSc Honours in Psychology (Behavioural Neuroscience option) checklist
Students currently enrolled in a Psychology or Neuroscience program who wish to change their program concentration (Major, Specialization, Honours) while maintaining their degree type (BA, BSc) can do so by submitting the appropriate form:
As of the 2024-2025 academic year, current Psychology students need to complete an MS Forms Request to be considered for PSYC courses that require departmental permission (except the advance experience courses).
Documents for PSYC 387, 483, 485 and 487
- Undergraduate student and faculty research agreement for honours, specialization, and directed research projects (PSYC 387-487, PSYC 485, PSYC 495, PSYC 496)
- Application to do a specialization project (PSYC 485)
- Application to do a directed reading/research project (PSYC 387/483/487)
Non-Psychology/Neuroscience students
Looking to enter a Psychology or Neuroscience program? Sign up for one of our information sessions.
There are two paths that students who are currently in a Concordia degree program can take to enter a Psychology or Neuroscience program: (1) change of concentration or (2) internal degree transfer.
(Note that if you are not in a Concordia degree program and you wish to be admitted to a Psychology or Neuroscience program, you must apply through the admissions process).
You will remain in the same degree type but change your concentration (eg, Change from BA History to BA Psychology, or BSc Biology to BSc Neuroscience.) Applications can only be submitted starting October 1st. Please consult the Psychology info sheet or the Neuroscience info sheet for admission requirements & info session dates.
- Change of concentration application to Psychology for students outside Psychology
- Change of concentration application to Neuroscience for students outside Neuroscience
The internal degree transfer applies to Concordia students who are enrolled in a degree program and wish to transfer degrees to enter a program in Psychology or Neuroscience (eg, change from a BSc program to a BA in Psychology; or BComm, BEd, BComp, BEng, or BFA program to a BSc in Neuroscience).
Please consult the information sheet for admission requirements and information session dates.
Note that the Department of Psychology is no longer accepting applications for a Minor in Psychology.
Non-Psychology/Neuroscience students taking individual PSYC/NEUR courses
The override procedure for students in other programs who wish to take a PSYC/NEUR course at the 300-level involves a Zoom session followed by submission of an e-form. For both the zoom and e-form, you need to know the section number of the course you wish to take. Please do not come in person for an override.
Note the following:
- PSYC 311, 387, and all 400-level courses are unavailable to students outside of Psychology/Neuroscience.
- There are no guarantees of availability as students in the Psychology and Neuroscience programs have priority. We cannot help you if a class is waitlisted or closed.
- We typically allow a maximum of 1 PSYC/NEUR course per student per semester.
ZOOM
Assuming the course you wish to take has open seats, you can come to one of the following zoom sessions to request permission. The zoom link is the same for all sessions.
Tuesday, January 7: 11 am – 12 pm
Wednesday, January 8: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Thursday, January 9: 11 am – 12 pm
We will see one student at a time on a first-come first-served basis. There will be a waiting room, and it is normal that you wait a while since many students typically attend these sessions. We will get to you before we close the waiting room.
Be sure to have the specific course info and your student ID number ready, otherwise we will move on to the next student and come back to you.
E FORM
The e-form will be available as of Thursday, January 9 at 1:00 pm, after the zoom sessions. You fill out the form once per course that you want in ranked order with your first choice being your first form entry. Please be sure to fill out your email and student ID correctly as they are needed to give permission and contact you.
Starting Monday January 13, at least once per day, we will look at the requests for courses that have enough space and grant permission where possible. We will keep checking daily until the DNE deadline. You will be contacted by email only if you are given permission to register for a course.
We strongly suggest registering in other courses as backup and that you don’t count on an override in case the course you want is not available. You can make changes to your schedule once permission is granted since we will not register for you.
If a class is closed, you can still fill the form in case it opens, but keep in mind that we cannot let in more students into a closed or waitlisted course.
It is your responsibility to ensure that there are no issues that would prevent you from registering in the course, such as account holds, time conflicts, credit limits, etc. If you drop a course but then cannot register in one of ours, we cannot help you get back into the one you dropped.
Additional support
The Undergraduate Program Office for Psychology students is open from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Mondays to Fridays.
Accessing the PDFs
Several of the forms below are PDF files. You can fill out a PDF form by downloading the file and following these instructions. This will work with any version of Adobe Acrobat, including the free Acrobat Reader, but not a web browser or preview application.
- Career advising in Psychology
- GPA calculator - Determine the effects of re-taking a course on your GPA (Excel spreadsheet)
- OPQ Requirements
- OPQ Undergraduate Requirements for Clinical Psychology
- Participate in a study (Possible to earn extra credits in participating courses)
- Access card and key requests
- Department of Psychology FAQs
- Common scenarios for course registration
- Why choose Concordia if you are planning to study Psychology
- Professor note form
- New students: transfer credit student request form
- If you would like to request permission for the following items, you can do so through your student portal.
- Course repeat
- Course substitution
- Credit overload (requires at least 24 credits on record with a CGPA of at least a 3.00)
- Late course registration
- Late course withdrawal
- Learn how to submit the portal requests.
- Other requests are processed through the Faculty of Arts & Science student request form which must be submitted to psychology.forms@concordia.ca.
- For additional information and instructions, please see student requests on the FAS pages.
- If you would like to request permission for the following items, you can do so through your student portal.