Transfer Credit Procedures

TRANSFER CREDIT APPLICATION DEADLINES
Winter 2008 –Fall 2008

The following procedures apply to all requests for transfer credit.

• You must obtain advance approval from the Government Department in order to get credit for courses in Government that you plan to take elsewhere even if you aren't majoring or minoring in Government and do not plan to do so. Applications must be submitted to Christine Gex (216A Silsby).
• The Department’s application deadlines are one week prior to the Registrar’s application deadlines, to allow time for processing (see the following page for deadlines). The application must be submitted on the form provided by the Registrar's office and must be accompanied by a syllabus for the course you intend to take (see below).
• The syllabus you submit with your application must show all assigned readings and exercises (exams, papers, etc). If the syllabus you need is not yet ready, submit one for the same course by the same professor when he/she last taught it; or if that too is impossible, submit one from the same course's most recent iteration regardless of who taught it.
• You may transfer just one course toward your major or minor in Government, with a single exception: in the case of courses taken under the auspices of our exchange program with Keble College, you may transfer up to two courses. (Courses taken while on an LSA or FSP program, and carrying regular Dartmouth course numbers, are not transfer courses and are not subject to these rules.) Students who are not Government majors or minors may transfer up to two courses that have been approved for Government credit toward their overall Dartmouth course requirement.
• If the Department decides to grant your request, you will be credited with the addition to your overall College course count. The Department may, at its sole discretion, also award the following: (a) Credit toward your distributives, if the content of the proposed transfer course warrants--typically SOC and/or INT, with possible World Culture credit given; (b) Course credit toward your Government major or minor, but only with respect to the total number of courses required for its completion; or (c) Credit for a course that specifically substitutes for an equivalent Dartmouth course--meaning that the credit not only counts toward your major or minor but also fulfills the same requirement within the major or minor as the Dartmouth equivalent.
• Transfer courses may never be used to fulfill the Culminating Experience.
• Please note that according to ORC regulations, students are not allowed to transfer courses to Dartmouth until they have completed all their first-year requirements.
• Also according to ORC regulations, only courses from accredited four-year degree-granting institutions may be considered for transfer credit, and no credit is given for internship programs.
• No transfer credit will be given for introductory Government courses (with the exception of the introductory course in Comparative Politics offered by Keble College).
• NOTE: Shortly before your scheduled graduation, the Registrar will check your transcript in detail to make sure that you are claiming no more transfer credits than the rules allow, that you receive only the level of credit authorized by the Department, that you received passing grades for transfer course(s), and that you have fulfilled all distributive and major requirements after the preceding have been taken into account. If anything is amiss, you will not be allowed to graduate! It is the student’s responsibility to ascertain that s/he is claiming neither more transfer credit than the rules allow, nor credit at a level beyond what the Department has authorized. It is also up to the student to make whatever arrangements are necessary to his/her grade from the other school reported to our Registrar.
• The above regulations do not apply to matriculating transfer students, i.e., students who did not matriculate at Dartmouth as first-year students. Such students should consult directly with Christine Gex to discuss and review courses taken elsewhere.

~ Applications for Transfer and Exchange Credit are available in the Registrar’s Office. ~

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