General Education Policy for Transfer Students

Students transferring any of the Connecticut State Community College (CT State) general education competency areas below will receive transfer credit towards the Southern general education (LEP) requirement outlined:

* Arts and Humanities: Most of the courses within Arts and Humanities category will fall under the CSCU General Education Transfer Credit Alignment Policy, with the exception of Elementary I World Languages and ESL level 4 & 5 courses. While these courses remain in the category for the purposes of fulfilling a degree requirement at CT State, these courses will not suffice for credit in the general education of all CSU 4-year institutions.

* Scientific Reasoning / Scientific Knowledge and Understanding:

1. Students who have completed one four-credit lab science course and one three-credit non lab course or two four-credit lab science courses, will have met the science general education requirements at the receiving institution
2. Students who have completed one three credit science will be required to take one four-credit lab science course
3. Students who have one four-credit lab science course will be required to take one three-credit non lab course or one four-credit lab science course
4. It is strongly suggested and will be advised that students take courses from different academic disciplines, but a student will not be asked to take additional courses if they have not done so

*Quantitative Reasoning: Math requirements are typically dictated by specific program requirements and would be difficult to guarantee without knowing a student’s intended major.

First-Year Experience

Students transferring to Southern for the first time with 15 or more credits, or students who readmit or transfer with an *associate degree or higher, will be exempt from this requirement.

Written Communication Prerequisite

At the LEP director’s discretion, students transferring to Southern for the first time with 30 or more credits, who have 3 or more college courses where they can be expected to have done ample amounts of argumentative writing, or experience that demonstrates that they have done ample amounts of argumentative writing, will be exempt from this requirement.

Written Communication and Multilingual Communication

Students transferring to Southern for the first time with 60 or more credits, or students who readmit or transfer with an *associate degree or higher, will be exempt from this requirement.

Students meeting either of the following criteria will be exempt from all LEP Foundations and Explorations requirements: (1) students transferring or readmitting to Southern with a bachelor’s degree, or (2) students transferring or readmitting to Southern with an *associate degree, or students transferring to Southern for the first time with 60 or more credits, which includes all the following:

• 3 credits in MAT 103, 106, 107, 108, 120 or higher
• 3 credits in ENG 112 or 120
• 3 credits in Sciences (BIO, CHE, ESC, ENV, MAR, PHY)
• 3 credits in Social Sciences (ANT, COM, ECO, GEO, JRN, PSC, PSY, SOC)
• 3 credits in Arts & Humanities (ART, ENG, HIS, JST, LIT, MDS, MUS, PHI, THR, WGS, WLL) excluding ENG 110, 112, 119, 120
• 24 additional credits in any of the above disciplines, CSC, and/or a world language above the 100 level (SPA, ITA, GER, FRE, LAT, CHI, JPN) excluding ENG 110, 112, 119, 120 and MAT 100, 100P, 102.

Students transferring to Southern for the first time with 60 or more credits will be exempt from one writing course requirement; students transferring for the first time with 90 or more credits will be exempt from two writing course requirements; students who readmit or transfer with an associate degree will be exempt from one writing course requirement; and, students who readmit or transfer with a bachelor's degree will be exempt from all three writing course requirements.

Note: Associate degrees earned by current Southern students through the Reverse Transfer program (i.e. using credits earned at Southern to be awarded the transfer degree from CT State) are not evaluated for LEP exemptions.