Most of the time I spend as an advisor is taken up with inquiries regarding transfer credits.  Either a student is coming to NEIU from another BA program with a number of English courses that need to be evaluated, or (more often) students' work and life schedules require them to look to other local Universities for equivalents to our required courses. 

For General Education Course and Teacher Education Course transfers, see your Education advisor (see contacts).

For Content Area transfers, see me, Professor Scherman (CLS 2001, X5817,

t-scherman@neiu.edu).

If you are transferring from another University, you can just drop me a copy of your transcript with your email address and I will send you an email telling you which courses count for our program. 

You can always do us all a favor and conduct some research.  If you have taken a course entitled "American Literature, 1850-present" at Iowa, CHECK our catalog course descriptions on our English Department Webpage under Course Offerings first.  You'll see there that yes, THAT IS pretty much an equivalent to our ENGL 218, and in 99 cases out of 100, you can count on the transfer.  Just verify by email.  Eventually, our NEIUport registration system will "recognize" your transfers automatically, but until that day comes (2012?), doing your own research and contacting me about equivalent courses EARLY is the best bet.

ALL transfers will eventually require a look at your transcript, but no question about a transfer should keep you from registering on time, paralyzed with fear that whatever class you took won't count.  Just notify and query in advance.  And some classes, indeed, will not count.  Except for Survey courses, 200-level and other General Education courses in literature you take elsewhere (like our own GenEd courses in English, ENGL 201, 202 and 203) WILL NOT COUNT toward the English/Secondary Ed major.  Likewise, if you take a course that surveys all of British Literature in one term, that will NOT count (unless the class meets 6 hours a week) for both of our surveys in British literature, though I will usually give you credit for one or the other. 

For those searching equivalents for courses where your schedule does not fit our offerings, again, research on your end will help.  If you need CMT-MDIA 265, but you cannot be here MWF at 11:00am when it is very often offered, Harper offers a similar course, as does Oakton and many others.  Universities all have their catalogs and schedules on-line.  Just check our catalog description against theirs, and send me an email (t-scherman@nieu.edu) with them written out so we can fill out a CONCURRENT REGISTRATION FORM.  When you get the grade, make sure to bring your TRANSCRIPT with you when we fill out your graduation paperwork.