Minimum requirements for students who have taken diploma-level Liberal Arts and Sciences courses at another postsecondary institution normally include:

• A minimum grade of 60% or the equivalent letter grade.
• The course is equivalent, not necessarily identical, to a Humber General Education course.
• The institution is an accredited postsecondary institution or its equivalent.

Required documentation for students who have taken diploma-level Liberal Arts and Sciences courses at another postsecondary institution normally includes:

• Official transcript (photocopies are not acceptable).
• Official detailed course outline (MUST include course description, title(s) of text or required reading, and method of evaluation).
• If the institution is outside of North America, all documents should be translated (where necessary) and assessed for equivalency by one of the following:
  • International Credential Service of Canada: http://www.icascanada.ca/
  • World Education Services: http://www.wes.org/CA/fr/
  • University of Toronto Comparative Education Services: http://www.adm.utoronto.ca/ces/

Application Process

• Collect the application form from the Registrar’s Office or download it: http://www.humber.ca/myfuture/exemptions_09.pdf
• Complete all parts of the application form and return it to the Registrar’s Office along with ALL required documentation and the applicable fees.
• Transfer credit application should be submitted to the Registrar’s Office FOUR WEEKS before the beginning of the semester.
• Applications take about two weeks to process, and the results are posted on Humber’s Student Record Service (SRS): https://srs.humber.ca/SRSWeb/html/Index.do
• Students should continue to attend their General Education class the results are posted on SRS.
• A student who receives transfer credit is not automatically withdrawn from a course; the student must officially drop the course.

Course & Program-Specific Information

HUMA 024 Humanities

• The last course to which transfer credit applies is normally HUMA 024 Humanities. For example, if a student qualifies for two General Education transfer credits and is in a program that requires two General Education courses and a Humanities, the student would still have to take the HUMA 024 Humanities course to satisfy the program requirements; in this case, only if a third transfer credit is granted, would an exemption from HUMA 024 Humanities be granted.

ESL Admissions

• It is strongly recommended that students placed in the ESL stream of Communications (e.g., ESL. 150, ESL. 200 or ESL. 300), and are not intending to transfer into a Humber Degree program, take HESL 024 Humanities – the ESL version of HUMA 024 Humanities.
• ESL students who intend to transfer into a Humber Degree program should take HUMA 024 Humanities.

Program-Designated General Education Courses and Credit

• A program-designated General Education course is a particular General Education course that a student must take as a requirement of the program. For example, in the Paramedic program, PSYC 121 Applied Psychology is a program-designated General Education course that all students in the Paramedic program must take. The same is true for PSYC 122 and PSYC 123 Applied Psychology.
• Students will normally receive transfer credit for a program-designated course, if and only if, the course meets ALL of the specific learning outcomes as stated in the program-designated course outline.
• If credit is granted for a program-designated General Education course, the course used as the basis for granting credit cannot be used for additional credit toward a General Education course that is not program-designated. For example, if credit for PSYC 121 is granted, the course used in applying for the credit cannot be used for any additional credit within the same program.
• Students who take program-designated General Education courses cannot take the same course for General Education credit. For example, students in the Child and Youth Worker program are required to take PSYC 001 Psychology: An Introduction and are, therefore, restricted from taking PSYC 001 for General Education credit.

Appeal Process

• If transfer credit is not granted, the student can contact the appropriate Coordinator or Associate Dean to discuss why credit was denied.