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Undergraduate Transfer Credit Approval

Transfer credit requests are being accepted

Undergraduate students who wish to take courses outside of the university must receive prior approval in order to transfer those credits to GW. Each student must have their own TCA form approved for the current school year before the first day of the desired course(s). 

Please see the section titled Current Students on the Undergraduate Transfer Credit webpage for more information.

*While we review your proposed course to ascertain its equivalency to the courses we offer, we advise you to conduct a thorough comparison of the syllabi and evaluate the content for substantive similarities. Furthermore, it is imperative that you verify that all laboratory experiments are performed in a physical, in-person setting. For a list of courses and institutions which have already been reviewed, please click on the button below.  It doesn't guarantee an approval however the courses on the list have a very good chance of being approved.

Pre-reviewed TCA requests

To initiate the evaluation and approval process:

  1. Download the course-specific, prefilled TCA form by first going to the course below which you wish to take elsewhere.  The prefilled TCA is linked to the word "HERE". Click on "HERE", Download the form, ,complete the required fields (*), and save it to your computer.
  2. Go back to the selected course below in blue lettering which you would like to transfer.  Click on the course number in blue lettering from the list below. When you click on it, it will lead you to a form that you will complete.  Fill out the required fields (*), upload the completed TCA form (from step 1 above) and the course syllabi, and click "Submit". 
  3.  A separate TCA with syllabi should be submitted for each course that you would like to transfer.

CHEM 1003 – Environmental Chemistry for Non-Science Majors w/ in-person lab (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 1003 HERE)

CHEM 1004 – Medicinal Chemistry for Non-Science Majors w/ in-person lab (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 1004 HERE)

CHEM 1111 – General Chemistry I  w/ in-person lab  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 1111 HERE)

CHEM 1112 – General Chemistry II w/ in-person lab  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 1112 HERE)

CHEM 2151 – Organic Chemistry I  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 2151 HERE)

CHEM 2152 – Organic Chemistry II  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 2152 HERE)

CHEM 2153 – Organic Chemistry I Lab (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 2153 HERE)

CHEM 2154 – Organic Chemistry II Lab  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 2154 HERE)

CHEM 3165 ­­– Biochemistry  (Download and complete prefilled TCA for CHEM 3165 HERE)

Other CHEM courses - (Download and complete prefilled TCA for other CHEM Courses HERE)

 

  1. The student must upload their completed TCA form along with the course syllabus to the GW Department of Chemistry. 
  2. Please complete one internal Request Form for each course  you would like evaluated. There is the ability to upload two syllabi for those schools who separate the lecture and lab portions of the class(es). Please reach out to the Chemistry Department if a syllabus that is no more than 1 year old is not available.
  3. If the transfer of academic credit form is approved, the student will submit the form to their school’s advising office. It is the students responsibility to follow up and make certain that it is processed.
  4. The school’s advising office must then approve that the course can be taken as a transfer of academic credit. Once approved advising will submit it to the Office of the Registrar. The student should follow up with their school’s advising office.
  5. Please allow at least two weeks for this process. The student should give themselves enough time as it may take more than one attempt to find an equivalent course. 
  6. For assistance on getting a better sense of whether a request will be approved or not, the student may gwchematgwu [dot] edu (reach out to the Chemistry Department) to request a copy of a syllabus to compare to the transfer course prior to submitting their evaluation request. The is also a list of what has been previously approved.

  7. The student must remember to have transcripts that include grades for all of the approved courses sent to GW’s Registrar’s office upon completion of the course(s). Students should also check DegreeMap to ensure that transfer credit has been posted.

     

Important Key Points to Remember:

  • The course description cannot be accepted in place of the course syllabus.
  • The course syllabus should have the class materials, textbook information and lab manuals listed.
  • The chapters should be named or titled so the Chemistry Department knows which topics are covered.
  • Lab portions should identify the specific experiments performed.
  • Online and hybrid laboratory courses will not be approved for transfer credit.
  • GW students are unable to use the TCA process for courses taken during the academic year.  If GW Chemistry is not offering the course, consider the Consortium process.
  • Evaluation requests of a transfer credit course MUST be approved prior to taking that course at an institution outside GW.
  • Each student MUST have their own TCA form approved prior to taking courses at an institution outside GW.
  • Please do not register for a course until it has been approved by all parties involved in this process.
  • Please do not duplicate submission material or your response time from the department will be delayed.