Waiving / Substituting a Nursing Course
Per Academic Regulation 108, colleges and departments may substitute or waive college-level requirements for individual students. Students may request permission to waive a course. Details about program transfers are below:
RN-BSN: Courses from a previous nursing degree are not transferrable into the RN-BSN program.
PL-BSN: Students who have course credits from other nursing programs or institutions may request to transfer those credits into the PL-BSN program. Please note that WSU courses that require precepted, experiential, or clinical hours may not be substituted. Additionally, didactic courses that are co-requisite with precepted, experiential, or clinical hours also may not be substituted, as those courses are designed to have paired content knowledge.
Transferable credits are reviewed by the Program Director to ensure they meet the equivalency of required didactic courses. To be considered, students must have earned a minimum grade of C, the course credit must be equivalent to the WSU course that would be waived or substituted, and the course must have been taken within 10 years.
To get started, students must prepare a letter of request to the Program Director alongside the course syllabus. They will review the syllabus of the potential course to be assured student learning outcomes were adequately covered in the completed course. The Center for Student Excellence will also confirm that waiving the course will not affect graduation nor academic requirements.
If approved, Academic Advisors will make an adjustment in the student’s academic record to indicate that the transfer request was approved.
| Policy Title | Undergraduate Nursing Course Waiver/Substitution |
| Policy Inception Date | 06/2022 |
| Policy Applicable Party | College of Nursing Undergraduate Students |
| Date of Last Change | 07/2024 |
| Responsible Party, Level I (to create and review) | Center for Student Excellence |
| Responsible Party, Level II (to approve) | CON Faculty |
| Responsible Party, Level III (to implement) | Center for Student Excellence |
