Math Course Approvals

To obtain approval for courses taken during the summer and/or outside Boston College to count towards graduation and/or to satisfy program requirements, you'll need to fill out the standard Course Approval form available from Student Services or your Dean's office.聽(If you are a transfer student or planning to study abroad, choose the one with the that name.)

Course Pre-Approval Form

Provide

  • Personal data as requested on the form (providing your e-mail address is helpful as well)
  • The institution where you'll take the course (it must be a four-year college鈥攊t cannot be a two-year or community college)
  • The course you'll take, when you'll take it, and at which campus you'll take it (many institutions have multiple locations)
  • A catalog description of the course (either with a copy of the institution's course catalog, or a URL reference to the electronic copy of the institution's course catalog)
  • A syllabus, if possible.
  • For online or hybrid courses, we require that exams are proctored and that there is a way for students to interact with instructors (eg: via a discussion board, zoom office hours, etc.). You must provide a syllabus with this information (or an email from the instructor) in order for us to consider the course. If the course doesn鈥檛 meet those requirements, it will not count and聽 we encourage you to find a different course with this same content.

If the course meets the content and format requirements, we鈥檒l submit approval and then the form will be sent to your Dean.

Be sure to complete the necessary paperwork for a course approval before you take a course for math core credit. Credit is rarely granted for courses taken without prior approval.

In general, a course can be approved if it significantly overlaps one in our own course catalog. In addition to standard calculus courses, the courses we frequently accept as mathematics core curriculum substitutes are courses titled "Finite Mathematics," "Excursions in Math," and "Ideas in Math."

However, please know that we do not accept courses that carry the names "College Algebra," "PreCalculus," or "Statistics" as substitutes for the mathematics core curriculum requirement.

If you are seeking approval to take a statistics course to meet聽program requirements for statistics, your paperwork should go through the Economics department.

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