Harper College Transfer Credit Guides

Harper Community College

Lake Forest College

All other Harper College courses (completed with a grade of B- or better)

100- or 200-level credit pending the approval of the chairperson of American Studies

Important Notes

·       The American Studies program only offers two courses on its own (AMER 110: Introduction to American Studies and AMER 200: Topics in American Studies) that are not cross-listed with other departments’ courses. The remaining courses that flesh out a student’s curriculum reside in other departments and are cross-listed with American Studies.

o   AMER 110: Introduction to American Studies is only offered every other academic year.

o   AMER 200: Topics in American Studies is a team-taught course offered annually in the spring, and there is no transferable equivalent at Harper College.

o   Many other courses at Harper College may apply to the American Studies major or minor. It is generally our practice to defer to the home department to decide whether a Harper College course has an equivalent. If the equivalent course is cross-listed with American Studies, then there is no objection to counting it toward the major or minor. For example, the Harper College course “HST 111: The American Experience to 1877” if approved by the History department as an equivalent to HIST 200: Foundations of the American Republic, would also be cross-listed as AMER 210, and therefore apply toward the American Studies major or minor.

o   If there is no equivalent course at Lake Forest College, but the student feels as though the course is compatible with American Studies, then the student should appeal to the chairperson of American Studies who will make the final determination.

·       A maximum of four (4) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College American Studies major. A maximum of three (3) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College American Studies minor. Requests for exceptions will be considered by the chairperson on a case-by-case basis.

·        Harper College credits may not be used to fulfill the AMER 110 or AMER 200 requirements (see above), or to transfer in as any course at the 300-level or above, including the Senior Seminar requirement (AMER 485).

*NOTES

·       Although it is not required, it is recommended to take additional biology courses above BIO 115.

·       No Harper College course will fill the requirement for Lake Forest College BIOL 221, which should be taken as soon as possible at Lake Forest College to accommodate the 300-level required courses.

General notes:

·       Other chemistry courses (CHM 100: Chemistry for the Health Sciences, CHM 103: The Chemistry Connection, CHM 105: Chemical World, CHM 110: Fundamentals of Chemistry, CHM 125: Organic and Biochemistry for the Health Sciences, CHM 201: Basic Organic Chemistry, CHM 210: Quantitative Analysis, CHM 220: Biochemistry) do not count toward the Lake Forest College Chemistry major.

·       A maximum of four (4) courses from Harper College in chemistry may be used toward a Lake Forest College Chemistry major or minor. A maximum of four non-chemistry courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College Chemistry major (these include Calculus I and II (MTH 200 & 201) as well as two semesters of physics (either General Physics I & II (PHY 121 & 122) or General Physics I & II (PHY 201 & 202).

Harper Community College

Lake Forest College

MCM 120: Introduction to Mass Communication

Comm 281: Theories of Mass Communication

Harper College Class

Lake Forest College Department Class

MTH 134 Calculus for Social Scientists
OR
MTH 200 Calculus and Analytic Geometry I

MATH 110 Calculus

MTH 124 Finite Math

MATH 160 Math Methods (Business only)

ECO 211 Microeconomics
AND
ECO 212 Macroeconomics

ECON 110 Principles of Economics*

MTH 165 Elementary Statistics
OR
MGT 225 Applied General Statistics

BUSN/ECON/FIN 130 Applied Statistics

MKT 245 Principles of Marketing

BUSN 225 Marketing Theory

MKT 255 Marketing Research
MGT 274 Operations Research

BUSN 300-Level Elective

ACC 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting

BUSN 230 Financial Accounting

ACC 102 Managerial Accounting

BUSN 331 Managerial Accounting

ACC 201 Intermediate Accounting I

BUSN 330 Intermediate Accounting

No classes fulfill Lake Forest’s FIN 210 Requirement

FIN 210 Financial Management

PHIL 150 Business Ethics

PHIL 203 Business & Professional Ethics

ECO 210 Money and Banking

ECON 200-Level Elective

Important Notes

·       A maximum of four (4) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College English major. A maximum of three (3) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College English minor.

·       Harper College credits may not be used to fulfill 300-level Lake Forest College courses for the major, nor may they be used to fulfill the senior seminar requirement.

·       All majors are expected to take English 210 at Lake Forest, including transfer students. Should a student wish to have this requirement waived because of courses taken at the Harper College, appeals will be considered by the chair, but students should be aware that the bar for such appeals is high.

Important Notes

·       A maximum of four (4) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College History major. A maximum of three (3) courses from Harper College may be used toward a Lake Forest College History minor

·       Harper College credits may not be used to fulfill 300-level Lake Forest College courses (including History 300), nor may they be used to fulfill the Senior Studies Requirement. 

·       All majors are expected to take History 110 at Lake Forest, including transfer students. Should a student wish to have this requirement waived because of courses taken at Harper College, appeals will be considered by the chair, but students should be aware that the bar for such appeals is high. Successful appeals will demonstrate that 1. methodological skills taught in 110 have been mastered; 2. a non-western History course has been (or will be) taken.

Important Notes

·       All Harper College transfer students will be required to take MUSC 352 – Form and Analysis, at Lake Forest College.

·       Additionally, transfer students will be required to take MUSC 360, MUSC 361, and the Senior Seminar at Lake Forest College.

Important Notes

·       The Lake Forest College Philosophy major requires three courses in the history of philosophy, of five offered. We can make some exceptions to this, but in general, we will not accept more than two history-of-philosophy courses from William Rainey Harper College toward that requirement.

·       In most cases, if a Harper student were to (hypothetically) take all the regular philosophy offerings at Harper, and Phil 231 and 232 were accepted as two of Lake Forest’s 290, 291, 292, 320, or 355, she would still need to take one history-of-philosophy course, PHIL 325: Major Ethical Theories, PHIL 305: Comparative Philosophy: East-West, and a senior capstone (either a seminar, a research project, or a thesis).

Harper College

*Students can only receive major credit for ONE of these courses.
**No methods course can replace Lake Forest College SOAN methods courses.