“How was the workload like in Grenoble?”

• 7-8 Courses in one semester, some start in January, while some start in March

• No assignments, no lab reports (except for 1 course that was just lab reports)

• Exam worth 100% , total grades out of 20 marks

• Tests are open book,

• There is a student-run group that paid to print out all your lecture slides, everybody goes there

“How do you choose courses?”

• Dr. Zurob provides a list of coursed that were usually taken by the past exchange students

• All coursed provided to exchange students are instructed in English, but If you can speak French, you can choose whatever courses you like

• The official course enrolment takes place after your arrival at Grenoble, so don’t worry too much until then

• Staff at McMaster will scrutinize the curriculum structure of all the courses you take and assess which ones are equivalent to the core courses at McMaster

• If a course cannot not be considered a replacement for core course, it might be taken as a technical or complementary elective

• Due to the different education system in France, some courses will be at master level, be prepared for harder contents

• All courses taken during your exchange are recorded as Pass/Fail on transcript by default