Petition Process

You will need to fill out this form to update us on the current status of any outstanding or recently completed General Education coursework.  

During the admissions process, the Admissions Committee reviews your submitted transcripts to determine which of the four required courses you have already completed.  Depending on your academic history, you may be required to complete some college-level courses before beginning or concurrently with your Emerson College enrollment as required by ASHA's Prerequisite Course Content Areas Related to SLP Certification Standards. Refer to your Intent to Enroll letter to confirm whether you have been identified as lacking one or more of the required courses: 

• Biological Sciences

• Physical Science (Physics or Chemistry)

• Statistics

• Social or Behavioral Science.  

These courses must be completed before the end of Term 3 (5-term or 9-term) of Applied Graduate coursework in the Speech@Emerson program. Official transcripts must be submitted. Students not meeting this requirement on time will receive an account hold preventing registration for their fourth semester of Applied Graduate coursework. 

It is your responsibility to identify a course at another institution that you want to take which fulfills the ASHA requirement. At this time, Emerson College graduate students cannot take electives outside of their plan of study. Since these are ASHA requirements not Emerson requirements, they cannot be taken at Emerson unless you were an Emerson undergraduate student and took them at that time. 

Emerson does not retain a list of recommended or preferred courses.  Items to consider when selecting an ASHA General Education course to take:

• It must be completed at a regionally-accredited college or university. This includes local community colleges or online programs.

  • Coursework from massive open online courses (MOOCs) are not accepted. Examples of MOOCs include, but are not limited to: Educause, MOOC.org, edX, Coursera, and Khan Academy.

  • Classes taken at the high school level are not eligible, with the exception of advanced placement (AP) courses that appear for credit on your college/university transcript.

• It may be an introductory course such as CHEM 101

• A lab portion for the class is not required.

• The course cannot be associated with speech-language pathology, audiology, communication sciences, hearing sciences, or logopedia unless they fulfill a university general education requirement, and are available to students who are not majoring in CSD.

• If you need to take Physics or Chemistry, confirm that the course content covers only Physics or only Chemistry, not both.

If you have taken a course that may meet ASHA requirements, or you will need to take a General Education course and would like to know if it's approved, you may submit the course(s) for approval by creating a free account with Transferology (www.transferology.com) and following steps below:

• Use the ‘Will my courses transfer’ button to navigate through the course offerings from the institution offering the General Education course(s).  On the left side, input the required information including the school name where you are taking/took the course, the Semester/Year, and course specifics.

• The ‘My Courses’ section on the right side will populate with the courses you select.

• Then click ‘Search for Matches.’ (See image for reference)

• • The next page will provide automatic matches.  You should click ‘Looking for a particular school?’ 

• •  A pop up will appear in which you need to select Massachusetts and Emerson College, then click ‘View Matches.’

•  You will then do one of the following two things:

  • • If the course has already been approved and is in Emerson’s system, you will see a ‘100% Match.’  Click on it:

• • • •  In this scenario, you should take a screenshot of your result, indicating that the course has been identified as having met ASHA requirements by the tag ‘ASHA’ and send it to studentsuccess@speech.emerson.edu.  

• • • If the course has not yet been approved, you should click the ‘Contact the school for more information’ link

• • In this scenario, to submit the request to Emerson College, students MUST use the following note so that the course is approved and tagged appropriately: “I am a S@E graduate student and would like to see if this/these course(s) are approved for ASHA prerequisite requirements” within the body of the request.  

All Speech@Emerson students must take 54 credits of Applied Graduate coursework as a part of either the 5 term or 9 term plan of study.  This includes 4 community based practica and one Boston based Immersion experience.  Note the following petition requirements for a petition to transfer applied graduate coursework from a previous institution:

• Coursework must have been completed prior to matriculation at Emerson 

• Coursework must have been earned at a regionally accredited post-secondary institution through a CAA-accredited graduate program in Speech Language Pathology

• Only up to 6 transfer credits are accepted.

• Course must have been completed within the last 5 years.

  • In progress coursework will not be evaluated.

• Coursework must have been enrolled in and completed with a grade of B- (80) or better 

• Coursework must have been completed after the receipt of the undergraduate or other degree. That is, the course(s) to be transferred must not have been part of any other degree requirement regardless of whether the course credits resulted in an excess of degree, major, minor or elective credit requirements.

• There must be an appropriate content match between completed course(s) and the Emerson course which is being petitioned.  Please refer to our applied graduate course descriptions here.  

• You must have sent the Official Transcript of that course to Emerson College for filing with your records.

If you believe you have already taken a course that may meet Emerson’s requirements above, you may petition Graduate Studies for it to be considered. Please follow the process below precisely or else the processing of your petition(s) will be delayed. The emails you send will be read directly into a computer system which enables the advising team to follow up. If you want to transfer multiple courses, you need to send separate emails for each.  It is important that the email is formatted exactly as follows:

• Send the email to Speech@Emerson Student Success (studentsuccess@speech.emerson.edu)

• The email subject heading should be “Graduate Transfer Credit Petition Request:” followed by the title of one of the applied graduate course descriptions here.  

• Copy and paste the template of information in the box below.  You should then fill in all of the relevant information:  

Name of the course(s) which fulfill this requirement, as it/they appear on the transcript:

School at which the course was completed:

Term and year in which the course was completed:

Have you already submitted an official transcript which includes this course: 

Relevant context or notes: