Transfer Students
Transferring Credit
Who to see
Programs with transfer credit require approval from the Director of Latin American Studies Program for Major, Minor, or Foreign Language Requirement credit. Students wanting to receive only elective credit obtain approval for courses from the CLAS Transfer Credit Evaluator, Meredith Burke.
What you need to get approval
In order to gain transfer credit approval, the student must provide the Director of Latin American Studies Program with course descriptions along with program start and end dates for all coursework. If this information is not available, ‘post-approval required’ will be marked on the transfer credit form and the student must provide the information, either upon arrival to the program and after class choices are solidified (via email), or upon completion of the program. In the latter case, however, the student runs the risk of receiving only partial degree credit, or no credit at all.
Three (3) UVa credits are granted for every 45 contact hours of study abroad. Wherever possible, students will be given credit for actual UVa-equivalent courses. When no such equivalent exists, the Director of Latin American Studies Program will have the option of assigning any number of generic transfer credits or of refusing to give UVA credit for the course. Such generic credit may or may not count for the major or minor, at the discretion of the Director of Latin American Studies Program.