INTERPRETING THE TRANSFER COURSE EQUIVALENCY GUIDE
This Transfer Course Equivalency Guide is a tool to assist you in understanding how college courses transfer to Western. This guide includes course equivalency information for community colleges and public baccalaureate institutions in Washington State, excluding The Evergreen State College. This tool is historically cumulative and includes current and past course offerings. Check your school's course offerings to determine the availability of courses and reach out to the Office of Admissions with any questions.
Equivalent Course Information:
- SUBJ 1XX (i.e. HIST 1XX): Transfer course that has no WWU equivalent but a) corresponds with a WWU department/major and b) may be used as an elective in the major if needed
- SUBJ 1TT (i.e. ENGL 1TT): Transfer course that has no WWU equivalent but a) corresponds with a WWU department/major; and b) may not be used as an elective in the major. Courses may be used in the general elective area.
- TRAN 1TT: Transfer course that does not correspond to any one WWU department/major but may be used as a general elective
General University Requirements (GUR):
- BCOM - Communication (Block B)
- ACGM - Comparative, Gender, and Multicultural Studies (Block A)
- BCGM - Comparative, Gender and Multicultural Studies (Block B)
- HUM - Humanities
- LSCI - Natural Sciences with Lab Component
- SCI - Natural Sciences without Lab Component
- TLSC - Transfer Natural Science Course with Lab Component
- TSCI - Transfer Natural Science Course without Lab Component
- QSR - Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning
- MPAR - Transfer course meets part of the QSR GUR; satisfactory completion of one additional course is required to satisfy QSR in full. See GUR QSR Option 3 at: GUR 2017-2018
- MSAT - Transfer course meets the QSR GUR in full
- SSC - Social Sciences
Additional Codes:
- UD - Transfer course applies to Western's 60 credit upper division requirement
- NUD - Transfer course does not apply to Western's 60 credit upper division requirement
Additional Information:
- Courses transfer to Western Washington University at the same level (lower or upper division) as taken at the original institution.
- The number of credits earned for an accepted transfer course will be used even if the number of credits for the equivalent Western course differs.
- Semester credits are converted to quarter credits. (One semester credit equals 1.5 quarter credits.)
- One transfer course may be equated to two different Western courses, however credit will only be given for one course.
- Transfer work does not affect the official Western Washington University institutional grade point average.
- The student's major department determines the applicability of transfer courses toward the student's degree program.
- Credit earned by International Baccalaureate, Military Credit, and CEEB Advanced Placement Exams are considered transfer credits.
- The transferable course lists are historically cumulative and include courses offered between 1998 and the present.
- If you are searching for a course that is not listed, it may be for one of the following reasons:
- The course is new. A relatively new course may not have been submitted yet for equivalency review.
- The course may not be transferable to Western. For more information, please review Western's transfer credit policies.
- For additional information, or to request a review of an unlisted course, please contact Transfer.Credit@wwu.edu