12.4 Transfers From Other Post-Secondary Institutions

The following Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences regulations are in addition to UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS - General Academic Regulations (Undergraduate).

  1. As per UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS - General Academic Regulations (Undergraduate), Graduation, a student who completes fewer than one-half of the credit hours required for the degree is eligible only to obtain an "unclassified" degree. For these students, at least one-half of the minimum number of credit hours required for a Major (or a second Major) and at least one-third of the minimum number of credit hours required for a Minor must be completed at this University.

  2. No more than 9 of the 18 combined credit hours required to fulfill the Critical Reading and Writing (CRW), Language Study (LS), and Quantitative Reasoning (QR) Requirements may be transferred as equivalencies from another institution. In addition, no more than 3 credit hours in a CRW course may be transferred towards the Critical Reading and Writing requirement, with the exception of pre-authorized courses from the College of the North Atlantic that follow this University’s CRW guidelines. Additional transferred credit hours that would normally qualify towards these requirements may be eligible to fulfill other requirements of the degree.

  3. University-level study of a language not taught at this University may be eligible for unspecified LANG credit hours, and may be eligible towards the Language Study (LS) Requirement, subject to review by the Head of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (or designate) and the Office of the Registrar.

  4. University-level international study may be eligible towards the iBA International Studies (IS) Courses Requirement if it is demonstrated that it follows the IS course guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS.

  5. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences' Curriculum and Programs Committee is responsible for assessing the eligibility of specific (designated) Grenfell Campus courses for the Bachelor of Arts General Degree Requirements, Core Requirements.

  6. Limits on credit transfer hours exist for the Honours, Major and Minor in French. Refer to Program Regulations, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

  7. Limits on credit transfer hours exist for the Honours, Major and Minor in History. Refer to Program Regulations, Department of History.

  8. Limits on credit transfer hours exist for the Honours. Major and Minor in Spanish. Refer to Program Regulations, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

  9. Unspecified credit hours transferred as University (UNIV) are ineligible toward the requirement for 78 credit hours in Humanities and Social Sciences courses. They may be eligible as electives comprising the remaining 42 credit hours of the 120 credit hours for the degree.