How to Apply for Summer School Elsewhere

Go to WIN>Info Central>Forms and Documents Library>Registrar and read "How to Apply" and "Departmental Guidelines."

Contact the particular department at the school you would like to attend or peruse the school's web site looking for their summer offerings.

Preapproved Courses

Once you have determined what you would like to take, see if the course has been preapproved at WFU. There is a listing of preapproved courses on WIN; Info Central; Forms & Documents Library; Registrar; Summer School Elsewhere Preapproved Courses or in 110 Reynolda Hall .

If the course has been preapproved, fill out a Summer School Elsewhere application available from the Office of the University Registrar, 110 Reynolda Hall or on WIN; Info Central; Forms & Documents Library; Registrar; Summer School Elsewhere Application and return the completed application form to the Office of the University Registrar.

Courses Requiring Approval

If the course is not preapproved, obtain a course description by going to the school’s website. If the WFU Department requires a syllabus, contact the particular department of the school you wish to attend and request a syllabus. Syllabi may be hand delivered, emailed to carltosp@wfu.edu or faxed to 336-758-6056. Your name must be referenced on the fax.

Fill out the Summer School Elsewhere application, include the course description and/or syllabus and return to Susan Carlton, Office of the University Registrar, 110 Reynolda Hall.

These departments usually require only a course description:

GER/RUS (one hundred level)
FRH (one hundred level)
ITA (one hundred level)
SPA(one hundred level)
All other departments require a course description and syllabus.

These departments require a statement of Professor's Credentials:
ANT
SOC
Usually schools will have their professors' credentials in the school bulletin.

Online/Video/Distance Learning courses (i.e., courses taken outside a classroom environment) may be taken ONLY if the course is approved by the Department PRIOR to the course being taken and the WFU Office of the University Registrar is made aware of this. No more than six hours may be earned from such courses.

These departments do NOT allow online courses:

ACC/BEM/FIN
ANT
ART
BIO
CHI/JPN
CHM
COM
ECN
EDU
ENG
FRH
GER/RUS
HES
HMN
HST
ITA
JOU
MTH
MUS
PHI
POL
PSY
SOC
SPA
WGS

These departments do not allow transfer courses to satisfy Divisional Requirements:
ART
BIO
CHM
CSC
ENG - Students entering WFU prior to Fall '07 may take ONE Divisional elsewhere
MTH
PHI
PHY
SOC
Transfer courses MAY satisfy major/minor/elective credit in these departments.

• WFU students must attend an accredited 4-year university that grants bachelor's degrees.
• A maximum of 12 hours is allowed to transfer in one summer
• Of the 120 hours required for graduation, at least sixty must be earned in WFU programs, HOWEVER, ONCE ENROLLED at WFU, a student may subsequently count, at most, THIRTY hours of credit from sources other than WFU.
• Students must have a 2.0 cumulative GPA (including spring grades) before they may attend another school.
• No student on social or academic probation or suspension from WFU may take coursework at another institution and have that work transferred to WFU for credit.
• Students must make at least a C (not C-) for a course to transfer.
• No divisional/major/minor/basic/quantitative reasoning/cultural diversity may be taken on a pass/fail basis; any pass/fail must be approved prior to registration.
• Transfer work does not affect the student's GPA. Courses may not be repeated elsewhere in order to adjust the WFU GPA.
• No course may receive more credit than the credit of the WFU course.
• Even if the course is preapproved, the student must fill out a SSE application before attending another school.
• The WFU Office of the University Registrar must be furnished with an official transcript for any course taken elsewhere--even if WFU does not award transfer credit for the course.