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Individuals who have completed an Associate of Arts degree and who wish to go on to complete a four year degree leading to intial teaching licensure fall under the following guidelines:

1. Must be admitted to WSU as transfer students by the Admmissions Office.
2. Need to declare education major when applying
3. An A.A. degree waives students through gen ed breadth requirements EXCEPT     courses required for licensing.
4. Students must still complete specialty requirements - including gen ed depth courses.
5. Students must be admitted into the teacher education program the semester prior to taking courses in the professional ed sequence.
6. Students can take required content courses without being admitted into the techer education program.
7. It is anticipated that beginning Spring, 2002  the 2.75 gpa will be enforced for all students seeking admission.
8. Students still must meet grade require for admission to teacher education:
   • B or better in a 3 sem. hour college-level writng course (ENG111 at WSU)
   • B or better in a 3 sem. hour college-level speech course (CMST191 at WSU)
   • B or better in a 3 sem. hour college-level math course (MATH100 at WSU)
9. Must take professional ed sequence courses.

The first step for students transferring to WSU is to seek formal admission to the university. For information on appropriate procedures, contact the Admissions Office at 507-457-5100.

As part of the admissions process, transfer specialists in the Admission Office will conduct a credit evaluation of previously completed coursework for general requirements of the desired degree / certification program. In cases which are not clear cut, students will be asked to submit a course syllabi and a completed course substitution form to the appropriate department.

Students who complete additional course work after the credit evaluation has been done by the Admissions Office will need to meet with their assigned advisor to complete Course Substitution Forms once they arrive on campus in person.

Students pursuing K-12 and 5-12 licenses will be asked to contact their secondary licensing department to confirm the transfer of content area coursework. Example: students seeking high school English teaching will probably need to see the English department to crosscheck transfer courses in English.

Students pursuing Special Education teaching licensure will need to contact the Special Education Department (which is a separate department from the Education Department)

Students seeking Early Childhood or Elementary Licenses are advised through the Education Department Office.

Students who anticipate transferring to WSU in coming semesters sometimes request reassurance that courses they are currently enrolled in or about to take at their current institution will be accepted as meeting requirements in the WSU program. Questions should be addressed to the transfer specialists in the Admissions Office at 507-457-5100. Several policies guide responses to such inquiries...

1. A list of acceptable transfer credits from all Minnesota community colleges is available from advisors at:

• any MN community college,
• the WSU admissions office, or
• on-line as the MN Articulation Agreement.

1. Courses in the professional education sequence for teacher licensure are increasingly difficult to transfer.
2. With the move from course requirements to competency requirements, courses with the same title often are not equivalent in terms of competencies.
3. This statement is most true in broad courses such as Human Development and Learning, Instructional Planning and Assessment, and Human Relations.
4. Neither the Admissions Office nor the Education Dept. can provide quality answers about anticipated course work until students have applied at WSU.

After declaring an education major, transfer students will be assigned an ongoing advisor. For more information, see the advisors list within this website.