Courses taken elsewhere
Students may petition for credit toward the departmental seminar requirement for graduate-level courses completed in a graduate degree program in another university.
Generally, graduate-level courses taken elsewhere can be counted toward the departmental seminar requirement when the courses are substantially similar in content and level of intensity to seminars offered at Princeton. The number of courses counted is subject to the limitation that graduate students must complete at least seven graded seminars at Princeton before taking the general exam, regardless of the amount of graduate level work done elsewhere. The decision is in the discretion of the DGS.
Courses accepted for credit toward the seminar requirement may also be counted towards the three-course “third field” if they are appropriate in content and contribute to a coherent sequence. Courses thus counted are subject to the requirement that "third field" sequences must be composed of courses chosen from outside the fields covered by the written examinations. To be counted toward a field in methods, courses should conform in content, rigor and sequence to the seminar requirements in Formal and Quantitative Methods.
A student wishing to petition should submit a request to the graduate program administrator listing the courses for which credit is requested and identifying the Princeton seminar to which each corresponds. The request should describe as specifically as possible the overlap in subject matter and should include syllabi or other materials documenting the work done in each course, in each case together with the syllabus for the comparable Princeton seminar. The request should also include a transcript showing that each course was taken and passed with a grade (not audited or pass/fail).