Many Communication courses taken at
another institution will initially transfer into UD as COMM166T. Courses with
that number serve only as free electives, and will not meet any specific departmental
requirements other than general Communication electives. It is possible,
however, that many of these courses actually do meet specific departmental
requirements.
For review of Communication courses taken at another institution that transferred to UD as COMM166T, please be sure to include the following information:
- name & student ID number
- the name of the higher education institution where the course(s) was taken
- the course number and title of the course being reviewed for possible transfer
- a course description
- a copy of the syllabus (if you do not have one, a copy can often be obtained from the faculty member or department where the course was taken.)
Click the following link to email the information required for review: Communication Transfer Credits. You may cut and paste these documents into the body of the email, or include them as attachments.
Students should also be aware that some courses
that count as Communication in other colleges or universities will not transfer
as Communication course equivalents at UD; for example, some Journalism courses
would count as English credit at the University of Delaware, and some Advertising
courses as Business Administration credit. Courses in other departments for which the
student receives 166T credit (ex: PHIL166T, BUAD166T, ANTH166T) may also meet
requirements for those areas of study, and the student should submit
descriptions and a syllabus to those departments as well (NOT to the Department of
Communication). This is critical, because some of these courses may count for
University or College requirements.
For additional information on transfer credits, visit the UD transfer credit website.
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this circumstance, the student’s Communication Interest major standing will be
determined by performance in the courses taken at UD only. So, for example, if
the student receives transfer credit for COMM245, then her or his Communication
Interest GPA will be based on performance in the other three Communication
Interest courses. Help with calculating
your GPA using 2 or 3 course grades instead of 4 can be provided by the
Department of Communication main office staff.
The answer depends on two factors.
First, you may have already taken one or more Communication Interest
courses (COMM245, COMM256, COMM301, or COMM330), and there is usually no
reason to repeat them.
If you are transferring from another
university or college, it would be in your best interest to contact the
Department of Communication soon after you are admitted to U. D. to
find out whether any already-taken courses will receive transfer credit
as one of the four Communication Interest courses.
For students
transferring from another institution, or students transferring within
UD from another major during their sophomore year, the answer also
depends on when you begin the Communication Interest major:
If you
begin during the fall semester, assuming you have not taken any of the
four Communication Interest courses, you should take COMM256 and COMM330
at that time. Assuming adequate (B or better) performance in these
courses, you would then take COMM245 and COMM301 the following spring
semester. At the beginning of the summer, the Communication Department
will determine, based on your grades in these four courses, whether you
will be admitted into the Communication major.
If you begin during
the spring semester, it will be a year and a half before the Department
of Communication can determine your admittance into the major.
Transfer students beginning the Communication Interest major in spring
should only take COMM245 that first semester; and if you will be
receiving transfer credit (from another institution) for COMM245, you
might not take any Communication courses that semester. Again assuming
adequate (B or better) performance, and again assuming you have not
received relevant transfer credit, you would then take COMM256 and
COMM330 during the next fall semester and COMM301 during the next spring
semester.
The only exceptions to the latter schedule would be for
those rare students who will be receiving transfer credit for both
COMM256 and COMM330. In this case, the student should consult with a
Communication Faculty advisor.
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