OBERLIN COLLEGE
           POLITICS DEPARTMENT

Rice 216
10 North Professor
Oberlin, OH 44074
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Transfer of Credit

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Oberlin Initiatives in Electoral Politics

 

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Please submit the following in an envelope to the Department Chair:

1. A memorandum (letter) to the Department Chair that includes the following:

a) Name, box number, phone number, email address, class standing (Fr, So, Jr, Sr), major
b) How many credits you are seeking
c) What courses were undertaken for how many credits at what institution and/or in what program
d) Indicate whether these credits are being ought as elective credits, as major credits, and/or particular components of a Politics major (for example, a particular field within the department or for fulfillment of the seminar requirement)

2. Completed Preliminary Transfer of Credit form which you submitted to the registrar prior to your departure. The registrar will give you this.

3. Course materials: course description, syllabus, papers, exams.

4. A copy of a grade or other report on completion of the course.

If all is straight-forward, the Chair will sign the "final approval" box on the preliminary approval form and return all materials to you in the envelope. If there are questions, he will email, call, or write to you for further information.

NOTE: Please refer to the Course Catalog section "Transfer of Credit" for Oberlin's regulations, and note that there is a one-year time limit on applications for credit transfer. In order for credit transfers to be processed in the Registrar's office soon enough to affect registration for the next semester, the fully completed and signed form needs to be submitted to the registrar at least two weeks prior to registration. Credit transfer requests submitted to me by the end of the fifth week of the semester will be returned to the submitting student more than two weeks prior to registration for the next semester.

COPIES OF THIS FORM ARE AVAILABLE IN RICE 216