Credit Away
If you currently are a student at the University of Pennsylvania and want to take courses at a different institution over the summer or during the semester, this is treated as Credit Away. The Chemistry Department has very specific rules regarding Credit Away. Note that applications for Credit Away must be approved by the Chemistry Department before you take the class to ensure that the class will meet requirements.
Permission to take credit away will not be granted until all of the following is available or completed:
- a catalogue describing the course to be taken and the institution
- the name of the professor in charge of the course
- the title and author of the textbook used
- a syllabus of the course to be taken
- a transcript of work completed at the University of Pennsylvania (may be from Penn-in-Touch)
- a letter justifying request of credit away
- a "Summer Credit Away" form from your school
- a database application to be filled out in the Chemistry Department and then signed upon completion of evaluation
- Applications received after the last day of Spring semester classes will not be accepted.
- Incomplete forms will not be reviewed.
- Credit Away will not be allowed for those students whose residence is within commuting distance from the University of Pennsylvania
- Unless there are extraordinary, documented circumstances, credit away will only be given for Freshman Chemistry and its laboratories. Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and other upper-level courses will generally not be approved for Credit Away. No more than two course units of lecture courses and only one unit of laboratory can be taken as credit away. Transfer credits are counted towards this limitation on credit away.
- Students will be advised that credit away will not be accepted unless a grade of A or B is obtained, except with permission in advance from the Undergraduate Chairman.
- Grades of F, I or W may not be made up as credit away.
