ENGL110 Transfer Credit

All transfer credits taken before admittance to the University of Delaware must appear on your UD transcript before they will be evaluated by an academic department.  The UD Registrar's Office posts the transfer credits. If you don't see the transfer credits on your UD transcript, please contact the Registrar's Office at transfercredit@udel.edu  

Please note:

- The Composition Program does not "pre-approve" courses for ENGL110 transfer equivalency.

- Credit for ENGL110 cannot be gained from AP exams in English or through dual or concurrent enrollment.

Once you have confirmed that the transferred English coursework is on your UD transcript, you may petition for ENGL110  exemption review for transfer courses that are comparable to UD's ENGL110.  To qualify for exemption, the course must be a rhetoric/writing and composition course studying primarily non-literary sources.  

Request an ENGL110 Exemption Review

To request an ENGL110 transfer exemption review, you must complete an online application and upload supporting documentation. Before starting this process, be sure to have electronic versions of the items listed below readily available. Once you have these documents at hand, click on the link below to initiate the ENGL110 transfer exemption review request.

- Your unofficial UD transcript (PDF);

- Complete syllabus for the course you took (PDF);

- Course description from the course catalog (PDF); and

- A brief paragraph describing the course you are requesting to be reviewed, and explaining why you think the course is  equivalent to UD's ENGL110.

Initiate the​ online ENGL110 transfer review request.

Note: your request will NOT be processed if you do not enter all of the required information.  Due to the large number of requests, please allow up to four weeks for a response.

If you have questions about the application form, please email: 110TransferExemption@udel.edu or

Contact:

110transferexemption@udel.edu

​Dual and Concurrent Enrollment Policy for ENGL110 - effective June 2017

The Composition Program's ENGL110 course is an essential and required experience for all UD students. The course offers much more than skills-based writing practice: students engage in lab-like writing workshops designed to prepare them for the specific writing needs they are encountering in their other university courses, and they are introduced to the intellectual culture and the academic habits necessary for success in a research-intensive university. For these reasons, all entering freshmen should take ENGL110 during their first semesters at UD.

In order to be considered for ENGL110 exemption, a student must have taken a face-to-face college composition seminar or sequence of seminars on a college campus with a college instructor, and with undergraduate peer college writers. It is the policy of the Composition Program to deny dual or concurrent enrollment exemptions. Any writing course for which the student receives both college and high school credit will not be considered for exemption.

This policy also covers courses on UD's Matrix and the articulation agreements we have made with other institutions. Unless the course was taken with a college instructor and on the college campus listed on the Matrix, we will not consider exempting the student from ENGL110.

Effective January 1, 2019, the Composition Program will no longer consider exemption for courses taken before a student graduated from high school or earned a high school diploma.​