Getting Credit for EAP Courses at Berkeley

Departmental Policies on Earning Credit Abroad

College Clearance Requirements

Your Major and EAP

The Basics:

• All courses taken on EAP are approved by the UC Academic Senate and will transfer back automatically to your UCB transcript and count toward the 120 units needed for graduation. Course titles, units, and grades will appear on your transcript and grades will count in your overall GPA.
• Whether an EAP course satisfies a major, minor, college, or school requirement is up to the department, college or school, and policies vary. Only your advisers in your department and college or school can determine if an EAP course will be accepted to fulfill their requirements.

How to Determine Which EAP Courses Might Count for Major/Minor or College/School Requirements:

1. Access the Departmental Adviser Questionnaire, which includes basic information about your major or minor department’s policy on accepting EAP courses to fulfill requirements. Some departments have information about EAP policies on their web sites as well. For college or school breadth requirements, ask your college or school adviser

2. Once you understand what courses to look for (i.e., do they need to be upper division? # of units? particular content?), see:

   EAP Coursefinder: All courses taken by EAP students in the last five years are included in this search engine. You can click on a course title to see a brief course description. (Note: The courses listed are only a small subset of the courses offered at most of EAP’s partner institutions. New programs will have little information on Coursefinder. For new programs, please refer to the Course Information section of the country pages on the EAP Website for available courses). Once you’re on a screen of course listings, scroll to the bottom right corner to see if there is a “next” button for more courses on the next screen. Be aware that units listed are quarter units – multiply that number by 2/3 or .67 to convert into semester units.

   Course Catalogs of EAP Partner Institutions on Web Links from any country page on the EAP Website at eap.ucop.edu show short course descriptions or only listing of course titles, depending on the catalog’s format. Hard copy catalogs are available in the EAP Office Library for most partner institutions. Be aware that course numbering in foreign catalogs does not correspond to UC course numbering!

   Homepages of EAP Partner Institutions on Web Links from any country page on the EAP Website at eap.ucop.edu show additional information about academic departments abroad. Some information written in Asian languages will require translation devices that are not installed on our computers.

3. Take information about potential courses abroad to your major, minor, and college or school advisers and discuss how they view the courses you found. No department or college will guarantee before departure that a particular course abroad will fulfill a particular requirement. Most departments, however, will guide you toward courses most likely to fulfill requirements. Ask them if you are on the right track in your search for such courses. Once abroad, we encourage you to keep in touch via e-mail with your advisers to ask their opinion about the actual courses that you want to take.

4. When you return to Cal after EAP, bring with you all evidence (syllabi, exams, projects, papers, etc.) of work that you did for courses because your advisers will want to evaluate it before granting credit for requirements. Carry this material with you on your return flight AND mail a set of copies to California so you’ll be sure that one set arrives safely. This information is too valuable to lose!

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