Transfer Students
Transfer Students And The Sufficiency Requirement
Transfer credit in the Humanities and Arts at WPI is granted on a course-for-course basis. All Transfer and 3-2 Program students entering WPI with fewer than six courses or their equivalent of transfer credit in the Humanities and Arts must complete thematically-related work in the Humanities and Arts, including an Inquiry Seminar/Practicum to the extent that the overall Humanities and Arts credit totals two units.
If a Transfer or 3-2 Program student has completed two units of acceptable college-level work in the Humanities and Arts prior to entering WPI, a Completion of Degree Requirement form will be submitted by the Humanities and Arts Department Coordinator for Transfer Students at the request of the student. The grade for such a Humanities and Arts Requirement met by transfer credit is normally a B or C, but a student can request a grade of "CR". Students whose grades on transferred courses average A can submit samples of their course work and may be awarded an A for the Humanities and Arts Requirement. Alternately a transfer student may elect to undertake an Inquiry in an effort to achieve an A grade. These evaluation options must be exercised prior to the Department's submission of the Completion of Degree Requirement form to the Registrar.
Decisions concerning credit toward the Humanities and Arts requirement are made by the Humanities and Arts Coordinator for Transfer Students, Professor James Hanlan. He can be contacted in room 26 of Salisbury Laboratories, or at extension 5438, or email jphanlan@wpi.edu.
Last modified: February 01, 2007 09:36:15