Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
The studio art department will accept up to the equivalent of one full course of transfer credit to count toward the studio art minor requirements. Two types of approval are needed. (1) Approval from the Office of the Registrar that the transfer course meets Oberlin’s transfer-of-credit eligibility standards and (2) approval from the department/program chair that the course(s) may count to the minor. Current students taking post-matriculation credit must secure this approval before registering for course(s). Students who enter Oberlin as transfer students will have their pre-matriculation credit evaluated by the Office of the Registrar for elective credit, and they can later seek approval from the department/program for applying coursework to minor requirements.
In lieu of transferring a course from an external institution, one non-ARST course with clear relevance to the studio art minor could apply to the minor with the approval of the department chair.
The department is not obliged to give credit for work that fails to fit the general patterns of the Oberlin studio art curriculum or that fails to come up to Oberlin’s standards, no matter how valuable a student feels the experience has been, or how much time and effort has been expended.
