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Course Approval

Instructions

Please complete the Web form below if you are submitting courses for review for:

  • Summer School taken outside UC Merced
  • EAP courses
  • Other unarticulated transfer credits

Complete the form below and upload a course syllabus (not a catalog description) for each course for which you are seeking approval. This petition will not be accepted without a syllabus. If you are submitting multiple courses for review, you must complete the form individually for each course.

Important Submission Tips and Processing Time

  • This Web form should be used for courses that are offered in the School of Engineering (ENGR, BIOE, CE, CSE, ENVE, ME, and MSE).
    • For courses offered in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, a webform can be found here
    • For courses offered in the School of Natural Sciences, a webform can be found here.
  • Syllabi should include a description and summary of the course, required texts and readings, and a week-by-week course outline. Save the syllabus document as a PDF or .doc/docx document.
  • EAP Students: Please provide a syllabus in English. If translated from another language, attach the original to the English translation.
  • Submit the Course Approval Web form as early as you can, as the process can take up to a semester for a decision to be made.
  • Community college courses cannot be applied as upper-division courses or toward upper-division requirements.
  • UC Extension courses may be used toward degree requirements on a case-by-case basis. See your academic advisor for more information.

Processing time: A minimum of 12 weeks upon submission

Please be advised, that if you did not receive an email confirmation within 12 hours, the appeal was not submitted, and you will need to submit an appeal for consideration.

 

If you plan on changing your major, please indicate the new major.
Example: Merced College
Example: CIS 36A - Introduction to Java Programming
When did/will you take this course? Example: Summer 2016
Example: 4 semester units
Example: CSE 021 - Intro to Computing II
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.
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