Transfer of Credit

The Department accepts transfer courses from accredited college- or university-affiliated programs in the United States and overseas. Transfer of credit should normally be approved before courses are taken.

When seeking this approval, students should send the course title, department, and number and the URL of the course description from the catalogue of the college you will be attending to the Transfer of Credit Representative in the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts. If undecided among several courses, obtain approvals for all of them in advance.

After courses are completed with a grade of C- or better, have an official transcript sent directly to Program Support, Dowling Hall. The grades themselves are not entered on your Tufts transcript and do not affect your Tufts GPA. These courses are not counted as pass/fail.

Please be advised that course approval is based on the content of the course, not the language of instruction. Consult the members of the department responsible for transfer of credit.

Please note: The Department of Romance Languages does not approve credit for orientation programs and/or orientation courses for study abroad. Neither will the Department approve credit for courses that meet for less than thirteen weeks duration during semesters. Summer courses of at least five weeks or an equivalent number of contact hours to a Tufts summer course can be approved.