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1)    Do some web research and find a class that looks promising (see below for details about this, and read the approval form very carefully before you start looking). Then print out all of the course information, the syllabus, and the summer session calendar stating the first and last days of class. Fill out PART ONE of the approval form fully: be sure to note the purpose of the course.

 

2)    Take the form and supporting information to the Department Representative of the relevant department (e.g. the history dep rep for a history course). He or she will decide if the course may be approved, and will sign your form. If the course will be a prerequisite in a different department, you must also get a signature there (e.g. if you’re trying to use that history course in Comp Lit). BSE students, you also need a signature from Dean Bogucki.

 

3)    After the approval form is signed, bring the form and supporting materials to the Butler College Office.

 

 

You must submit your signed approval to the Butler College Office by Dean’s Date.

 

A course you take elsewhere must “fit generally within the range of course offerings in a Princeton department or program.” This means that a course on the sociology of gender might well be approved; a course on underwater basket-weaving would not. Journalism, business school, and communications courses are unlikely to be approved—you may well want to go ahead and take them for your own enrichment, however!

 

Courses must be offered by a four-year accredited University, and must meet for a minimum of four weeks, and 30 hours of in-class time. Lab courses require an additional 30 hours of lab, for 60 hours total. (The University is very strict about this lab requirement!)

 

A maximum of two outside courses may be used to fill AB distribution requirements. You may use only one course each in two of the three following areas: LA, ST, SA.

 

If you are planning to take a class as a prerequisite or required course in your department, be very sure to make this clear when you ask for departmental approval. Most departments require that the content of outside courses be “substantially similar” in order for them to qualify as prerequisites or requirements.

 

Credit for language courses is not conferred until after you return to campus and take the placement exam; to receive one course credit, you must place out of all 100-level courses in the language. So you could take a summer course hoping to do better on the placement test, or to pass out altogether, but everything depends on the Princeton language placement test that you take when you return to campus.

 

No. In order to get any credit, you must get a grade of C or higher (a C- is not acceptable for credit). After we receive your summer transcript, your summer grade will be turned into a “T” for transfer credit when it appears on your Princeton transcript, and it will not go into your GPA. *Note that many grad schools and scholarship applications require transcripts from every school you attend, so these summer grades won’t really disappear!

 

You can stop by the Butler College Office or download the form from one of the below links:

 

 

Thinking about taking an Economics course?  Please read the information from the Department Representative at the below link: