General Education for Transfer Students
The General Education (LEP) Director will assess each transfer credit to determine if it satisfies any General Education (LEP) Foundations or Explorations requirements upon transfer.
CT STATE GENERAL EDUCATION ALIGNMENT
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:
CT State General Education Area |
SCSU LEP Requirement |
| Continued Learning and Info Literacy | First-Year Experience (3 cr.) |
| Written Communication I | Written Communication Prereq. (3 cr.) |
| Written Communication II | Written Communication (3 cr.) |
| Quantitative Reasoning | Quantitative Reasoning (3 cr.) |
| Scientific Reasoning | Natural World I or II (3-4 cr.) |
| Scientific Knowledge and Understanding | Natural World I or II (3-4 cr.) |
| Historical Knowledge | American Experience or Time & Place (3 cr.) |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences | Mind & Body or Conflict & Concensus (3 cr.) |
| Oral Communications | Explorations Elective (3 cr.) |
| Arts and Humanities* | Multilingual Communications, Creative Drive, Cultural Expression, or Global Awareness (3 cr.) |
*Students taking ESL or World Language Level 1 courses for Arts & Humanities credit at CT State will receive free elective credit instead of credit towards LEP Foundations or Explorations at Southern.
LEP FOUNDATIONS
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.
LEP FOUNDATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS
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.
W-COURSE REQUIREMENT
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.