External Course Credit
Are you seeking Barnard College Credit for a course in Chemistry?
Please complete the approval form via Slate. The Chemistry Department Assistant Chair
will review all requests.
Transfer Chemistry Course Credit
Only courses from these schools are approved; see list on bulletin board by Chair's office. Also available on-line.
Show the calculations. Note: 35 hours means 42 x 50 minute (or 28 x 75 minute) classes.
Same as question number 2.
Make a copy for the department records of the following:
- list the dates of instruction
- list the hours of instruction
- give the full course description
Many schools offer special courses for non-scientists, or for preparation for the allied health professions. These are not acceptable.
Year-long courses in general and organic chemistry often cover the material in a different order. If you take the two terms at different schools, you must verify that the two make a good match. (Example: General Chemistry I at CU and BC do not match!) Catalog descriptions are frequently inadequate: you need to learn what book is used, and what chapters are covered in each semester.
Example: students who have taken any organic chemistry course may not receive subsequent credit for any first-year chemistry course.
Summer Chemistry Course Credit
Only courses from these schools are approved.
This is a college policy. I will sign no petitions for exceptions in Chemistry.
Show the calculations. Note: 35 hours means 42 x 50 minute (or 28 x 75 minute) classes.
Same as question number 3.
Make a copy for the department records of the following:
- list the dates of instruction
- list the hours of instruction
- give the full course description
Many schools offer special courses for non-scientists, or for preparation for the allied health professions. These are not acceptable.
Year-long courses in general and organic chemistry often cover the material in a different order. If you take the two terms at different schools, you must verify that the two make a good match. (Example: General Chemistry I at CU and BC do not match!) Catalog descriptions are frequently inadequate: you need to learn what book is used, and what chapters are covered in each semester.
Example: students who have taken any organic chemistry course may not receive subsequent credit for any first-year chemistry course.
* Special note re Columbia courses. Questions 1-6 are automatically satisfied. You do not need a signature, but you must still consider 7 and 8.
A bit of gratuitous advice: There is a lot of material in any semester of chemistry. It is challenging enough to master and retain this in a 15 week semester. The same learning simply cannot occur in 5-6 weeks. It is also frequently true that summer courses, even at very prestigious institutions, are less rigorous than the regular courses. The regular faculty often does not teach the courses, and admission is generally open. If you really want to learn chemistry, we strongly urge you not to try to do so in the summer!