Course Waiver and Credit Transfer Policy College of Education

approved May 2018

Course Waiver Form

Undergraduate students transferring from regionally accredited colleges and universities may transfer credits to the University of Oregon. Students may read more course-specific and general information about transferring credits at the University Registrar’s website https://registrar.uoregon.edu/transfer-students.

Master’s and Licensure* -only students may request to transfer a maximum of 15 graduate credits into their degree program. The Graduate School approves all transfer of credits requests for degree-seeking students. Students may complete a Request for Transfer of Graduate Credit and read instructions at http://gradschool.uoregon.edu/current-students/academic-forms.

Doctoral students may request for waiver of previously earned coursework credits (see next section). The Graduate School does not approve transfer of credit for doctoral students.

Request for Waiver of Credit

Undergraduate and Graduate students may request to waive a credits based on coursework or field experiences completed previously through a process of determining course equivalence. There is no time limit for when previous coursework or field experiences were completed. To be eligible for a waiver of credit, the student must have earned a B- or above or a ‘Pass’ in the course equivalent. The faculty instructor of the course to be waived, or a representative from the Offering Unit who has relevant course content expertise, will determine a course equivalent. Both the previous course title and grade must appear on an institutional transcript.

Licensure students may request, in addition to the above, to waive a course when the student is able to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, competencies, and dispositions required by state and institutional standards (see OAR 584-400-0180). Experience in the field, alone, is generally not a basis for waiving coursework.

The College of Education academic and licensure programs will use the following guidelines to approve requests for waiver of credit:

(a) The student must request to waive credits using the College Request for Waiver of Credit form;

(b) The faculty instructor of the course to be waived, or a representative from the Offering Unit who has relevant course content expertise, will determine a course equivalent and must sign the Request for Waiver of Credit form. The student’s Program Coordinator/Director of Graduate Studies also must sign the Request for Waiver of Credit form. And, if the coursework is part of a licensure program, the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) Liaison must sign the form. Academic advisers may not grant credit waivers.

(c) The Program Coordinator/Director of Graduate Studies documents approval of the Request for Waiver of Credit form by placing the following documents in the student’s academic program file: the signed Request for Waiver of Credit form; previous course syllabus and/or other supporting materials; and institution transcript that documents previous course grade.

(d) The student may appeal a waiver decision by writing to the College of Education Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. The College of Education Curriculum Committee may also consider appeals.

(e) After exhausting the appeals process within the College, a licensure student may appeal directly to the TSPC as outlined in OAR 584-400-0180.

Academic programs may have pathways articulated that satisfy program requirements for groups of students. For these agreements, programs should complete the process above for each course but specify the cohort or admission year as a substitute for the student’s name. The original form may be copied and placed in each student’s record as appropriate.

This electronic document supersedes all previous versions and is subject to change.