Art and Design Department
Review of Transfer Courses Toward a Major
Who evaluates Art and Design Department transfer courses?
Approved Art and Design faculty are responsible for Art and Design transfer course equivalency, substitution, or waiver decisions. The Associate Chair of the department is the arbiter in the case of a dispute.
Courses that do not need portfolio review:
If you have successfully completed, at another institution, equivalent foundation level arts courses for these Columbia College Chicago courses you do not need a portfolio review. For courses whose content may be equivalent to our foundation level courses but whose course name is different, the department may request that the student provide a course description or syllabus for the course in question.
- Fundamentals of 2-D Design
- Fundamentals of 3-D Design
- Drawing I
- History of Art I
- History of Art II
- Foundations of Photography
Courses that require portfolio review:
All other art courses require a portfolio review before they will be applied towards the major.
Note: In order to ensure the proper placement of transfer students, the Art and Design Department does not guarantee the equivalence of any other Art and Design course. Both an interview and a portfolio review with an Art and Design faculty advisor are required to determine whether or not other Art and Design transfer courses will be accepted as equivalent, substitute or waived courses. Transfer courses not applied towards the major will remain as College Wide Electives.
In addition, we are unable to articulate transfer credits into the major until a student has been accepted by Columbia College Chicago and their transfer credits have been evaluated by the Office of Degree Evaluation.
Contact:
Alexis Kowalsky
Academic Program Coordinator
623 S. Wabash Ave., #721
312-369-3257
Students are asked to bring:
- Transcripts
- Course description or course syllabus
- Portfolio of course artwork (either digital or traditional)
Timeline:
- Courses not requiring a portfolio review will be articulated into the major upon evaluation by the Office of Degree Evaluation and noted on the Transfer Evaluation Report.
- All courses that require a portfolio review will be articulated at New Student Orientation. By the end of the portfolio review session you will know what courses will be submitted for an equivalency, substitution, or waiver. Course evaluations will be reflected in your Oasis Advising Guide within 10 days.
What will the student receive?
Within a week of the receipt of the online Equivalency, Waiver, Substitution from the department the Office of Degree Evaluation will issue a new or revised Transfer Evaluation Report to the student.
Questions?
Please contact the Office of Degree Evaluation
Susan Sindlinger
Director
312-369-7984
Revised 4/12
