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
- Inquiries about undergrad research courses and thesis: psychology.undergradresearch@concordia.ca
Amanda and Karen's virtual help for general questions
Mondays: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Tuesdays: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Fridays: 10:00 – 11:00 am
Major students and Specialization students (without PSYC/NEUR 485)
Your academic advisor is Kim Archer. Please either attend a zoom drop-in session or book an appointment.
Drop-in advising via Zoom for quick questions (max 10 minutes):
- Mondays 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
- Wednesdays 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Scheduled advising appointments (max 20 minutes):
- Mondays [virtual in TEAMS or in-person in PY 119.02, your choice]
- Tuesdays [virtual in TEAMS only]
- Thursdays [virtual in TEAMS or in-person in PY 119.02, your choice]
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.
For information on transfer of credits from another program, please see the section below on FAS request forms.
Current Psychology/Neuroscience students
Note that several of the forms below are PDFs. 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.
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 linked below. Please be sure to read all of the information on the form and note the current submission deadlines.
- Change of concentration application to BA or BSc Major or Specialization in Psychology,
or BSc Specialization in Neuroscience - Application to the Honours program in Psychology or Neuroscience
- Dropping Major in Psychology
- Dropping Minor in Psychology
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).
The request form for taking PSYC 311 in Winter 2026 is open from now until December 1, 2025, or for as long as seats in the course are still available.
- Undergraduate student and faculty research agreement for honours, specialization, and directed research projects (PSYC 387 / 483 / 485 / 487 / 495)
- Application to do a specialization project (PSYC 485)
- Application to do a directed reading/research project (PSYC 387 / 483 / 487)
- Registration form to do an Honours thesis (PSYC 495)
FAS (Faculty of Arts and Science) student request forms
Fill out the FAS Admission Transfer Credit form and submit the form, the syllabi for your courses relevant to your degree, and a copy of your unofficial transcript from the previous school, to psychology.forms@concordia.ca.
For BA students: submit any PSYC/NEUR, BIOL, MATH and the equivalent of 6 Concordia credits worth of courses from departments outside of the sciences for the general education requirement.
For BSc students: submit any PSYC/NEUR and other science department courses, as well as 6 credits worth of non-science courses for the general education requirement.
For details on how to submit these requests, please see Student requests on the FAS pages under the heading Requested via the Student Hub.
For details on how to submit these requests, please see Student requests on the FAS pages under the heading Requested via SAS.
In particular, follow the link on that page to the Student Request form and complete it. Submit the completed form to psychology.forms@concordia.ca.
Make sure to include all backup documentation listed on the form to go with your request, including your unofficial transcript/student record.
Non-Psychology/Neuroscience students
Entering one of our programs
There are two paths that students who are currently in a Concordia degree program can take to enter a Psychology or Neuroscience program.
- You remain in the same degree type (BA or BSc). See Change of concentration to Psychology or Change of concentration to Neuroscience.
- You change degree type (eg, BSc Biology to BA Psychology; or BA History to BSc Neuroscience). See Internal degree transfer.
Note 1: If you are NOT currently in a Concordia degree program, you must apply through the admissions process for Psychology or the admissions process for Neuroscience.
Note 2: The Department of Psychology is no longer accepting applications for a Minor in Psychology.
For more details, consider attending an upcoming information session in person at Loyola RF 110.
Taking individual PSYC/NEUR courses
For students not in a Psychology or Neuroscience program that wish to take PSYC/NEUR courses, please follow the link below for our override procedure.
Additional support
The Undergraduate Program Office for Psychology students is open from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Mondays to Fridays.
- 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