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3. 1. Transfer Guides for Michigan Community Colleges
  2. Transfer Guides for Students at other Colleges and Universities
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Transfer Guides for Students at other Colleges and Universities

Prospective Students
Mapping Your Transfer Plan
1. Get to Know LSA
2. Transfer Credits
3. 1. Transfer Guides for Michigan Community Colleges
  2. Transfer Guides for Students at other Colleges and Universities
4. Financial Aid
Apply
Admitted Transfer Students
Transfer Bridges
FAQs

Before using the guide please read through the following guidelines:

This guide is provided to help prospective transfer students from 4-year colleges and universities and out-of-state community colleges plan for transfer into LSA.
The information in this guide is accurate at the time it was created. Although there are not frequent changes to course articulations, the articulations are subject to change at the end of each semester. Therefore, students should check the official Transfer Credit Equivalency guide to make sure a class is still transferable for the term in which you plan to take it.
Completion of all the LSA General Degree Requirements (FYWR, ULWR, QR, R&E, foreign language, and Area Distribution) is required for graduation with a B.A. or B.S. degree.
The Bachelor in General Studies requires completion of the FYWR, ULWR, QR, and R&E.
Students are NOT required to have completed any specific part of the General Requirements prior to transferring nor does completion of the General Requirements guarantee admission.
Additional subject areas may count for general degree requirements but are not included in this guide because they have not yet been evaluated.
Current LSA students should confirm your course selections with your general academic advisor before registering for the class. Failure to do so may result in taking a class that does not fulfill the Area Distribution that you need.

LSA General Degree Requirements

Note: Courses that fulfill ULWR, R&E, and QR can also count toward distribution if approved and not from the department of your major, e.g. PHY 221 counts for QR and Natural Science.

LSA Requirement	Courses from 4-year colleges and out-of-state community colleges that fulfill this requirement
First Year Writing (FYWR)	Any course that transfers as ENGLISH 125 will automatically fulfill this requirement. If a course from your school does not transfer as the above, you can have courses you believe may fulfill the requirement evaluated by petitioning the Sweetland Center for Writing.
Upper Level Writing (ULWR)	Must take at U-M
Race & Ethnicity (RE)	Must take at U-M.
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Fufilled by taking one class designated as QR/1 or two classes designated as QR/2. For the QR/2 option, one class can be taken before transferring and the second after transferring if you choose to do so.	Option 1: QR/1 Transfer one QR/1 class from the following list : STATS 101X, 201X, or 301X STATS 250 PHYSICS 125, 126, 140, or 240 MATH 105, 115, 116, 214, 215, or 216 EECS 183 or 203 SOC 210 Option 2: QR/2 Transfer 2 courses from the following list. Courses do not have to be in the same subject. ASTRO 101, 102 CHEM 130 EARTH 130, 222 ECON 101, 102
Language: Achieve 4th term proficiency through course completion or placement exam	There are multiple ways that you can begin or complete the langauge requirement before transferring. Courses that transfer in as equivalent credit for FRENCH 232, ITALIAN 232, and SPANISH 232 will automatically fulfill this requirement. If you have taken language courses in high school or college courses that don't transfer as equivalent credit to the above courses (including those in other languages), you will have the option to take the language placement exam for your chosen language during orientation. A student whose first language is not English and who attended school up to the 8th grade where English was not the language of instruction is considered to have met the requirement. Your general academic advisor will enter an exception for this when you meet with them at Orientation. If you are fluent in a language other than English but did not complete schooling in the language you will need to take a placement exam to demonstrate your fluency. AP or IB Credit. Some languague departments award credit for the forurth semester based on AP and IB scores. See the AP and IB credit web page for details.

Area Distribution Requirements

Total of 30 credits in two parts: Part I = 21 credits and Part II = 9 credits.

Courses from the department of your major cannot count for distribution.
If a course transfers into the department of your major it cannot be used for distribution. However, the prerequisite requirements for some majors can be used to fulfill distribution and your academic advisor will be able to discuss that with you.

Courses that transfer as Equivalent Credit.
Courses that transfer as directly equivalent to a U-M course will count for the same area distribution requirement as that course. You can look up a course in the LSA Undergraduate Course Catalog to see what degree requirements it fulfills. For example, if you have a class that transfers as ECON 101 you could check the catalog and see that it counts for Social Science for the Area Distribution requirement.

Courses that transfer as Departmental Credit.
The charts below show how many classes that transfer as Departmental Credit are pre-approved for area distribution based on they course subject they transfer under. Courses that transfer as Departmental credit in a subject not listed in the chart will be evaluated by an academic advisor after students are admitted.

Part I

Complete 7 credits in each of 3 areas (HU, NS, SS) for a total of 21 credits

Humanities (HU)

7 credits are required to fulfill the Humanities Area Distribution in Part I for graduation.

Up to 7 of these credits can be transferred in.
If you transfer fewer than 7 credits you will take the remainder after transferring.

Courses that transfer as equivalent to the following courses will count toward Humanities. Note: This is not a list of all the LSA courses that count toward Humanities; it is just those that are most commonly transferred.

CLARCH (Classical Archaeology):  101X, 201X, or 301X
CLCIV (Classical Civilization):  101X, 201X, or 301X
COMPLIT (Comparative Literature):  101X, 201X, or 301X
ENGLISH (English Language and Literature): 101X, 201X, 215, 230, 240, 245, 270, 274, 301X, 323, 350, 351, 363, 367
FTVM (Film, Television, and Media): 150
GTBOOKS (Great Books): 101X, 201X, or 301X
HISTORY (History): 200, 201, 239, 280
HISTART (History of Art): 101X, 201, 201X, 202, 210, 272, 301X
INTERHUM (Interdisciplinary Humanities): 101X, 201X, or 301X
MUSICOL (Music History and Musicology): 101X, 201X, or 301X
PHIL (Philosophy): 101, 101X, 183, 201X, 262, 245, 301X, 356, 359, 361, 371, 376, 383
RELIGION (Studies in Religion): 101X, 201X, 204, 301X
SLAVIC (Slavic Languages and Literature): 101X, 201X, or 301X
THEORY (Music Theory): 101X, 201X, or 301X
THTREMUS (Theater and Drama): 211
WGS (Women's and Gender Studies): 240

Additional departmental courses may count for HU but only after an evaluation by an academic advisor after students are admitted.

Natural Science (NS)

7 credits are required to fulfill the Natural Science Area Distribution in Part I for graduation.

Up to 7 of these credits can be transferred in.
If you transfer fewer than 7 credits you will take the remainder after transferring.

Courses that transfer as equivalent to the following courses will count toward Natural Science. Note: This is not a list of all the LSA courses that count toward Natural Science; it is just those that are most commonly transferred.

ANTHRBIO (Biological Anthropology): 101X, 201, 201X, 301X
ASTR (Astronomy): 101, 101X, 102, 201X, 301X
BIOLOGY (Biology): 101X, 171, 172, 173, 201X, 301X
CHEM (Chemistry): 101X, 125, 126, 130, 201X, 210, 211, 215, 216, 301X
EARTH (Earth and Environmental Sciences): 101X, 118, 119, 120, 201, 201X, 219, 222, 301X
INTERNS (Interdisciplinary Natural Science): 101X, 201X,301X
PHYSICS (Physics): 101X, 125, 126, 127, 128, 140, 141, 201X, 240, 241, 301X
PSYCH (Psychology): 112, 220, 230, 240

Additional departmental courses may count for NS but only after an evaluation by an academic advisor after students are admitted.

Social Science (SS)

7 credits are required to fulfill the Social Science Area Distribution in Part I for graduation.

Up to 7 of these credits can be transferred in.
If you transfer fewer than 7 credits you will take the remainder after transferring.

Courses that transfer as equivalent to the following courses will count toward Social Science. Note: This is not a list of all the LSA courses that count toward Social Science; it is just those that are most commonly transferred.

AAS (Afroamerican & African Studies): 201
ANTHRARC (Anthropology, Archaeological): 101X, 201X, 282, 301X
ANTHRCUL (Anthropology, Cultural): 101, 101X, 201X, 222, 301X
COMM (Communication and Media): 101X, 201X, 301X
ECON (Economics): 101, 101X, 102, 201X, 301X, 310, 320
HISTORY (History): 205, 240, 247, 253, 254, 260, 261, 275, 285
INTERSS (Interdisicplinary Social Science): 101X, 201X, or 301X
LING (Linguistics): 111
POLSCI (Political Science): 101, 101X, 111, 140, 160, 201X, 301X, 311, 315, 320, 326
SOC (Sociology): 100, 101X, 201X, 233, 301X, 303, 344, 368

Additional departmental courses may count for SS but only after an evaluation by an academic advisor after students are admitted.

Part II

Complete 3 credits each in 3 of the following areas (HU, NS, SS, MSA, CE, ID) for a total of 9 credits. For example: 3 credits in HU, 3 credits in MSA, and 3 credits in CE.)

LSA Requirement	U-M subjects that count for area distribution requirement
Humanities (HU)	Complete additional 3 credits from HU list in Part I
Natural Science (NS)	Complete additional 3 credits from NS list in Part I
Social Science (SS)	Complete additional 3 credits from SS list in Part I
Mathematical & Symbolic Analysis (MSA)	The following courses will count toward MSA: *MATH* (Mathematics): 101X, 105, 115, 116, 214, 215, 216 201X, 301X *STATS* (Statistics): 101X, 201X, 250, 301X
Creative Expression (CE)	The following courses will count toward Creative Expression: ARTDES (Art and Design): 100, 101X, 105, 115, 125, 201X, 301X COMP (Music Composition): 101X, 201X, 301X DANCE (Dance): 101X, 201X, 301X MUSPERF (Music Performance): 101X, 201X, 301X
Interdisciplinary (ID)	No subjects are pre-approved to count for ID

Transfer Guides for Majors

The following guides explain how transfer credit can be used to fulfill the requirements for certain majors. The guide for each major includes the information for all Michigan community colleges.

If a guide is not posted for the major in which you are interested, go to Majors and Minors. After you find the requirements for your major, check the Transfer Credit Equivalency Search for the courses at your school that transfer as equivalent credit for each class. There is no guarantee that your school will offer courses that transfer to count for each major.

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