Component courses (core courses)
What substitutes?
The
transfer equivalency charts are found online, this reflects the articulation
agreements with other colleges/universities. When a student takes a Math course
somewhere else, the equivalent SHSU course is listed in the chart, for example.
If we have no equivalent the chart indicates that. A transcript evaluator looks
over a students transcript and notes which courses being transferred count for
which SHSU courses. An advisor doesn’t reevaluate that and give credit, (a
reevaluation of the transcript is possible through the admissions office,
however.) The student always gets credit when the chart lists an SHSU course
being equivalent to a transferred one.
SHSU
respects other schools core requirements. When an AA degree is completed at a
community college , the student transcript reflects that they are “core
complete” or has earned an AA degree. (The electronic version of the transcript
no longer automatically shows this and the student may have to request their
transcript to be resent, by contacting the original school). That student has
no core requirement to be fulfilled at SHSU. A transfer student may have
completed a course at a community college which satisfies an area of the core
curriculum, say Natural Science. Though that student doesn’t earn the AA degree
and therefore is not “core complete” they would/could still be “component
complete”, by satisfying the 8 hour Natural Science component.
When
a student at SHSU returns to a community college, for example: in order to take
a summer course; they are a transient student and they must take the course
which is the exact equivalent to the SHSU core course. Look at this chart.
|
SHSU |
Local community
college (LCC) |
|
Full time
Spring 2010 student needs core course. |
|
|
Summer –
not attending. |
Summer
takes one core course. Chooses course A over course B, for some reason (time
of day possible) |
|
SHSU core course
is equivalent to B. Course A has no equivalent at SHSU so isn’t in our core. |
A and B
each satisfy the component at this school. |
|
|
Student
completes course and sends transcript to SHSU. |
|
SHSU
rejects course A as satisfying the SHSU core. Reason.
Under these conditions, the student can’t take a course which isn’t a direct
equivalent to our course. The “component complete” status won’t be invoked. |
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