Transfer of Credit

To transfer credit for an English or composition course,

follow these instructions. For courses taken in other

disciplines, consult the appropriate department. New

transfer students should see the Transfer Analyst

in the Dean's Office.

Download the Undergraduate Petition for

Transfer of Credit form.

The process

1. Complete Transfer of Credit form

2. Assemble supporting material if necessary (see below)

3. Submit to Eren Branch. Click here for contact info.

4. After a few days collect your form from the Student Pick-

up Box in the English Department and bring the

form to the Registrar.

Important information – read first

Pre-approval

It is best to get approval before taking the course, since

some courses cannot be approved for USD credit.

Articulation Agreement

Many Core Curriculum courses offered by local community

colleges have already been approved. See the Registrar’s

Articulation Agreement, which is organized by school and

by Core Curriculum requirement. If you take these exact

courses, they will be approved – but you still must fill out

the transfer of credit form

Supporting material

If you want to transfer a course from a university not

included in the Articulation Agreement, you must include

supporting material. When you submit your form, also

submit: 1) a copy of the relevant pages of the course

catalog, which will allow us to see how the course fits

into the other university’s curriculum; 2) the syllabus

from the course. If no syllabus is available from the

semester when you took the course, you may submit a

syllabus from the same course, taught at a different time.

Composition and Literature (ENGL 121)

Be aware that many composition courses taught at other

schools do not fulfill USD's lower-division written literacy

requirement, or may not transfer at all. If a composition

course is not based on writing about literature (poetry,

fiction, drama, etc.), then it will not fulfill USD's

composition requirement. Some courses are

equivalent to our ENGL 100, and so do not fulfill

the Core Curriculum requirement.

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