Transfer Credit and Core Course Requirements

Students who have taken any one or some combination of courses in the Humanities, Natural Science/Mathematics, Social Science and/or Cross-Cultural areas before coming to Hofstra, may be able to use those courses (excluding English composition and foreign language courses below level 20, BIO 50, and MATH 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B and 8) to partially meet the core requirements. Nevertheless, the following minimum requirements remain.

1. Students who transfer to Hofstra with fewer than 58 credits must take at least three semester hours in each of these core categories:

• Humanities Appreciation and Analysis (if fewer than three semester hours of transfer credit (advanced standing credit) are allocated to English literature or foreign literature, the Appreciation and Analysis requirement must be met by literature core course work)
• Humanities Creative Participation
• Sciences
• Mathematics
• Social & Behavioural Sciences
• History & Philosophy

2. Students who transfer to Hofstra with more than 58 credits must take at least three semester hours in each of these core categories:

• Humanities Appreciation and Analysis or Humanities Creative Participation (if fewer than three semester hours of transfer credit (advanced standing credit) is allocated to English literature or foreign literature, the Humanities requirement must be met by literature core course work)
  
• Sciences or Mathematics
  
• Social & Behavioural Sciences or History & Philosophy.

3. Any transfer student who has taken a Cross-Cultural course prior to coming to Hofstra, may use that course to wholly satisfy the Cross-Cultural core requirement.

4. Credits that Hofstra students earn as visiting students elsewhere may not be used to meet or to reduce core course requirements.